<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A German Soldier's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I moved around, below, above, <br>And up and down, and back and through, <br>And all the while I thought of you <br>And the tender swastikas of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gestapo kisses everywhere<br>Had filled my heart with such despair<br>I did not know just what to do, <br>Was I a Nazi or a Jew? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They tortured me for all my sin<br>And sealed me in a silent room, <br>Was it an oven or a tomb? <br>They made a lampshade from my skin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They nailed me to an Iron Cross<br>And told me I must face the loss<br>Of everything I thought was true<br>And so I sold my soul to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gradually your words made sense, <br>Baptising me with violence, <br>Seducing me with pride and hate<br>And sealing my Eternal fate, <br>.<br>Nothing now will ever seem<br>As grand as that Teutonic dream, <br>The candid eyes, the shining face, <br>The courage of the master race, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet the dream did not come true<br>And now there's nothing I can do, <br>Emancipated from your spell, <br>So lost and lonely in my Hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Thorkild+Ellison">John Thorkild Ellison</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421906" data-title="A German Soldier's Lament de John Thorkild Ellison" data-description="I moved around, below, above, And up and down, and back and through, And all the while I thought of you And the tender swastikas of love. Gestapo kisses everywhere Had filled my heart with such despair I did not know just what to do, Was I a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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