Saturday, March 22, 2008

Their part in his downfall

The filmmakers and photographers came after the Allied soldiers into occupied Germany. They saw the camps and the corpses.

"We have never seen anything more horrible." Click, went the cameras.

They noticed captured camp guards staring at the dead bodies. "You watched it happen!" They began to kick and beat the guards in a rage. Then they came across Germans in the streets who trembled and said, "We saw terrible things, books burnt, people stopped by brutes and taken away."

"We are unable to control our emotions at these atrocities," they said, and beat them too, using their cameras as weapons. A lens broke.

Then they came to Hitler's ghost, which was sitting mildly on a wall.

"You, Hitler! You must have seen people dragged away."

"No, I didn't see anything like that."

"Shot, gassed, imprisoned!"

"Honestly, no. I was in bed or in parliament at the time."

"You witnessed nothing?"

"Witnessed? No. I have a house in the mountains, you know."

"He saw nothing." They went on their way and let him be.

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