​mein fuhrer!

[Jamie Kimathi Milburn]

Mein Fuhrer!
Mein Fuhrer, I’m purer than Jew
My blond hair and blue eyes are credits to you.
I honour your views with this badge on my arm
I’ll always be faithful, I’ll always be calm

I take up my rifle and skew on a knife
I strap it on sideways and gear up for life.
First training in thrusting then laps round the field
I tire and ponder the cards I’ve been dealed

Mein Fuhrer!
Mein Fuhrer, I’m purer than Jew
Rather I’m me than a kosher it’s true

Got me a job at a death camp today
Fair easy work with a reasonable pay
Would I not want for a different way?
Whether I do, or do not I must stay

Mein Fuhrer!
Mein Fuhrer, I’m purer than Jew
The final solution is one we must do

Met me a Jew called #1284
I met him whilst knocking on #242’s door
He offered me chocolates and told me he’d send
More of the chocolate, he called me his friend
He looked like a German and sounded one too
I said this to him and he laughed “This is true”
He whistled the tune of an old German song
I whistled it back and we both sang along

Mein Fuhrer!
Mein Fuhrer, I’m friends with a Jew
The final solution is one we will rue

Sent to the lines at the Russian front
#1284 is nothing but a runt
At least that’s the way I saw him last back then
I had to deny that I knew him in pen
I sent him to die it could be just as well
So that he not live in this cancerous hell

Mein Fuhrer!
Mein Fuhrer, I’m friends with a Jew
I sent him to Auschwitz and for that I rue

Adolf is dead and is free from the law
I on the other hand face them in court
Blood on my hands and with guilt on my face
Glancing my eyes back and forth in the place
There in the distance far off in the crowd
#1284 is all silent yet loud
Piercing my skull with his look of forgiveness
Looking so thin, then I thought - I had done this!
I owned up to all of the charges I faced
But nothing could change what I’d done or erase,
All of my stupid and Nazi filled ways
Now I’ve the price that only life can pay

Mein Fuhrer!
Mein Fuhrer, we’re now with the Jews
No hair on my body; it’s gone right with you
I shame to have worn such a badge on my arm
The world is much better, now you can’t cause harm

[Sister Greed]

Great writing and structure.

[Jamie Kimathi Milburn]

Thanks very much!

[Sister Greed]

You're welcome, I love the way you told your story.

[Monica Mack]

Jamie Kimathi Milburn, I commend you for your poem mein fuhrer! You've created an excellent and emotion-filled narrative on a subject that can't be brought up too often. Thank you for writing and posting it! Monica

[Jamie Kimathi Milburn]

Thank you, I know it's a hard subject to deal with, but I felt something like this needed to be expressed.

[Rabondo]

So wrong but made me laugh anyway <3

[Jamie Kimathi Milburn]

Cheers, as long as you enjoyed it that's the main thing!

[Monica Mack]

To Jamie Kimathi Milburn, glad you're good-natured! We can't forget the Holocaust nor the well-intentioned people caught up in it, people who, like the narrator, saw only the glamor initially and realized the evil too late. Again, I thank you! Monica