{"id":1320,"date":"2019-05-16T22:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2019-05-20T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:48:08","slug":"orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Part of Wilfred Kemsley&#8217;s Anthology exploring the nature of the Holocaust, and its impact on the modern world.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aushwitzv1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1391\" width=\"467\" height=\"325\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">A dictator dictates and creates a statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">To induce a nation into a state of spies <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">And a corrupt institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Not corrupt but efficient <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Efficacy should not be mixed with feelings <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Or emotive reasoning <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But it is plain to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">from the same seats that you and me sit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">What this idea could be or would be yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Follow orders <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Taught from across borders <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Because foreign lands will not remain foreign under a new reign or order <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">That fought for the right to control the sort of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Small aspects of life or living quarters <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But you were just following orders &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Join the SS and progress <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Through the ranks of society and social process <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Become the subject of an empire &nbsp;that you can shape and subdue <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">To become your vessel of success <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Join for men to marry of wives to carry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Join to see the world and travel happy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Knowing that you are serving your sovereign nation &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Serving your country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Did you join for Genocide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">No, you joined for a better life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">You joined for all the right reasons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But were any of the reasons right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Now don&#8217;t you be so quick to judge <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">it was flee or fight <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But to take flight would mean abandoning my home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">There was no end in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">There was no finish line<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I joined for good money, and to see the sights   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Post me to paris,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">To <em>visit <\/em>france and all it carries <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I was just tourist,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I didn&#8217;t want to kill, I wanted happiness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I was only serving my country follow orders or be shot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">It wasn&#8217;t one man&#8217;s wrong decision, it was a lot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Some say that i was brainwashed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But i don&#8217;t think i was?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I was doing what was right<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">For my country, for my Rieche <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">For my friends and my family <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">They just wanted to be fine, more than fine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">We were the chosen people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">We were divine, Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I was only following orders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I didn\u2019t march them through the snow because I wanted it for them <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Did they really feel the same emotions as me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">That&#8217;s not what i was told <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">My orders were simple<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Yes, I knew it was cold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">What could I have done<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                                      Started a revolution? What for fun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">See my family be driven to the death camps for what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Where could i have run? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I Was earning a living for my wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I was protecting my son<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I was only following orders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">To kill, or to join the slaughter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I didn\u2019t sign up for murder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I signed up out of boredom <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Or to serve my country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">I was told that was was the greatest thing that I could do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Look me in the eye and say \u2018you\u2019d act differently if it was you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Because we know the truth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Does that make you evil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">No! That&#8217;s not what it did to them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">These were actions undertaken by more than just a few men <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Does this excuse their actions? Of course not<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But we must look to understand the orders that were followed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">They weren&#8217;t all monsters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">That&#8217;s what we forgot <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">They just followed their orders, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">And the men above them followed there&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Maybe next time we can spot the orders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">That are much more than unfair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">They were following there orders <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">That&#8217;s what many of them said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">And this was true,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Though some did believe in the system they were part of then<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But Regardless <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Orders were orders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Their motivations were mixed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">We do not seek to forgive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">But to understand and fix<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Fix the problems faced by a socially constructed society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Driven to the suicide of morals and humanity <br>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">These are my orders <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">To anyone who would care to listen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Men are capable of all hell <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Next time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">We will stop the orders from ever being given<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Wilfred Kemsley&#8217;s Anthology exploring the nature of the Holocaust, and its impact on the modern world. . 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