THE PRUSSIAN ARISTOCRACY

 

How do you think they got rid,

In days bygone,

Of the Prussian Aristocracy,

It was Von by Von

SLAVERY WAS BORN OF EMPIRE

 

Slavery was born of Empire

But not a European one

Slavery existed for centuries

In fact, thousands of years

Way before Europe rose to the fore

Even the Romans came late to the party

Following in Greece’s footsteps

Peoples were enslaved

From around the globe

Where there were trade routes

There was slaving

Arabs traded slaves bought

From African tribesmen

Muslims enslaved slavs

Turks enslaved Ukrainians

Mongols reached into the heart of Europe

And took slaves by the thousand

White Europeans became involved

Black enslaved black

White has enslaved white

I don’t know if it will ever end

I certainly hope so

But what I do know is

That the British didn’t invent it

RED BRICK

 

Red Brick, built Britain

For common man and squire

Built from the ground up

Until they built an Empire

SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOF TOPS

 

I like Germany

I like the Germans

I have friends there

I worked for a time near Frankfurt

And I visit Berlin often

It’s my favourite city

They are nice people

Friendly and welcoming

They share our hopes

And our aspirations

We are so alike

We have always been alike

Well almost always

There were dark days

When they were seduced by evil

And let themselves down

So what happened?

What infected this nation?

This nation so like ourselves

How did the madness take them?

Why did they become inhuman?

Why did they set a new benchmark?

In their inhumanity

Why did the good people not rise up?

And oppose the evil

Why did they fail to stop it

Were the jews so bad

So unworthy of pity

Too worthless to be considered

For whatever reason it happened

They let it happen

The worst of them profited by it

The best of them turned a blind eye to it

But they were all guilty

And after the war

I think they felt the guilt

But they feel no guilt now

Now they try to hide behind a lie

Pretending it wasn’t really that bad

There were just a few bad men

And they are gone now

The Americans exaggerated everything

There were isolated incidents

No more than that

Let’s speak of it no more

Lest we offend Islam

Well Islam should be offended

As it was the Turks of the Ottoman empire

Who taught their German allies

The meaning of Holocaust

When they annihilated the Armenians

I say let’s speak of it

Let’s never stop speaking of it

And if offence is caused, then so be it

If it prevents it’s like

From ever happening again