Should our future turn out otherwise,
Than we with our young eyes today expect,
If we must bear our heavy burdens
For many long years to come,
If many Mays will come like this one,
And if our houses bear no festive decorations,
If like now the sun must long shine
Without our flags flying throughout the land.
If that should be I have but one request,
That we should have a mighty miracle,
So that the old, who have suffered so much,
May once again look into our Führer's eyes.
Then they will not have to die
In uncertainty and desperation,
Then they will have a happy confidence in victory
To carry them through their final dying days.
Notes
Translated By: Randall L. Bytwerk
Written by an unknown Member of the Hitler Youth in Austria between 1933-1937.
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I feel that anyone who would read this would find appreciation and agree with the sentiment of it until they get to this line:
'May once again look into our Führer's eyes.'
Then, I feel, their opinion would change in the opposite. What does that say about them? Of course that's my assumption and just may not be true.
I feel one has to look at the mindset of the Germans at that time, to say that the 'public' wasn't behind Hitler would be a fallacy, I have many books on the matter, and though there were some that were against Hitler that were Germans, they were few and far between.
This is the mindset of the 'world' at this time, so to be angry just at the Germans for this, or what not, is rediculous at best I feel.
It's a well written poem, and if one gives me slack for saying that, that's on you, not me.
A good piece that this Anonymous author has written. I hope he/she made it out of the war okay and that particular mindset as well.
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