Friday 10 June 2016

A question


A question

If you were a German in ‘33
Living in Nazi Germany
I wonder
What would your actions be?

Would you be brainwashed by Goebbels’ lies
Think Jews no better than rats or flies
And Hitler
The wisest of the wise?

Would you, if the Fuhrer told you to
Be glad to burn books of a non – Nazi view
Especially if
They were written by a Jew?

Would you, being told again and again
Believe that Versailles was unfair – insane
And the Jew
Was the cause of ALL your pain?

Would you, like a Nazi, easily led
Smash Synagogue windows if Goebbels said
That a Jew
Fired a gun, and vom Rath was dead?

Would you, a citizen in the Nazi state
Find it easy to ignore, easy to hate
Would you act with indifference
To a Jewish child’s fate?

Would you, if you saw someone you knew
In defiance of the law, helping a Jew
Secretly inform
Like you were told to?

If you were a German in ‘33
Living in Nazi Germany
I wonder,
Would you act any differently?











  

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