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?