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The German Empire Hitler promised us would be!
We had been through so much, we had lost,
We had starved, we had died in the streets, we had paid a tremendous cost.
We had made mistakes and we had lost that war,
But there was no need to defeat our very core.
I had lost my father in a godforsaken trench in Germany,
And the family starved though Mother worked herself to death in a factory.
I grew embittered with their deaths, and I had no release;
The stress of living just day to day could only increase.
I rebelled in the only stupid ways that were known to me,
I even fancied myself an early swing kid of sorts; until, one day, an act of true destiny
Found me at a meeting where I heard a man speak,
Who promised to grant us the answers we all seek.
Though there were many in attendance, so I know this can't be,
But, oddly enough, it felt as if he were speaking directly to me.
I hung on every word he said
And I believed every line that he fed.
His name was Hitler, must I say more?
How was I to know that he would push us into another horrible war?
I worshipped unconditionally my Fuhrer,
And greeted everyone with a "Heil Hitler!"
He gave us someone to lie upon all our troubles, someone to blame--the Jews.
They were the only reason that we could ever lose!
So he told us, and he eventually gave us a resolution--
Move them from Germany, and later the final solution!
We weren't allowed to think of them as human,
But only as lowly vermin.
I said nothing when the Jews began to die,
I said nothing, did nothing, not even ask myself why.
I sent hundreds to their death with a smile upon my face;
I stormed swing clubs and herded off those in the place.
I questioned nothing that Hitler said,
And because of my and Germany's silence, millions of people are dead.
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