Following Orders

How very liberating

it must have been to calmly

state "nicht schuldig".

To serve a master like the

German Reich whose purpose

so neatly dovetailed with

their very own sentiments

and indeed direction 

toward a divine destiny.

How relieving and

honourable to say, placidly,

with such serene conviction

that they were, after all,

merely and sincerely

with all the passion

they could muster,

following orders.

Not for them, proudly

diligent in their duty,

to refuse to murder, bit

by needful bit, an entire

people.  For they represented

the dregs of humankind and

those that herded them into

death camps were, in reality,

the chosen, supreme.