Abandoning civilisation,
Ordinary Germans became ordinary Nazis
Knowing tomorrow belonged to them.
The new civilisation embraced hatreds that
Buried the Christian message of love.
Buried it and created Untermensch.
Abandoning their minds to
Evangelical certainty- Hitler’s certainty-
Born again Vandals, powered by rhetoric,
Swept across Poland to Russian steppes
Creating a new Germany. Pure, unsullied by
Civilisation.
Abandoning decency
They wallowed in blood and despair
Glorifying slaughter in every guise.
Failing to sate the feeding frenzy,
The bloodlust needed more.
It needed Auschwitz.
(Chris: A Holocaust Memorial Day Poem)
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I was trying to match the peerless civilisation of Mendelssohn and Kant with the willing embrace of barbarity. So I used the concepts ‘evangelical’, ‘Certainty, and ‘born- again Vandals’. Evil people are unequivocally ‘evil’ but what of ‘Ordinary Nazis’ who did it as a career choice- to get on, as it were? Did they become evil? I don’t know but any way that’s why I wrote this for Holocaust Memorial Day.