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FOOTNOTE: ADOLPH HITLER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, 1933 by HENRY HARRISON

First Line: THERE WAS A MAN
Last Line: THOUGHT THE JEWS WOULD NOT SEE GERMANY AGAIN.
Subject(s): GERMANY; HITLER, ADOLF (1889-1945); JEWS; SPAIN; GERMANS; JUDAISM;

There was a man
(His name -- if ever I knew it -- I forget)
Who spoke: "The Jews must go. Spain will not hold them."
The sun rose. The sun set.
And the man whose name I forget
Laughed: "Remember it was I who told them."

But the Jews with death and taxes still are with us --
Here wherever you are, and there in Spain.

And someone -- say a hundred years from now --
Will mention how
An unremembered ruler of men
Thought the Jews would not see Germany again.



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