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FOOTNOTE: ADOLPH HITLER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, 1933, by                    
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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