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WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
© 1972, The
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Probably he was a little envious of all
the publicity my slap had gotten. Kiesinger had not replied to his open letters
and his reproofs, whereas my behavior had had far more practical effect.
November 23. I made a 33 r.p.m. record in Dortmund, titled "The
K. Affair – The Story of a Slap." Actors read items from my data, and I
myself explained the meaning of my act and recited a poem I had written about
it. Pläne Verlag issued it as an item on its list of socialist and
revolutionary songs.
THE SLAP GERMANY NEEDED
Germany needed it
in order for the cruel, greedy, cowardly,
sheeplike
generations to be seen as culprits
who thought they could
conceal from us forever
the German people's true sense of
honor;
Germany needed it
for the Russians who died
defending
their homeland at Stalingrad
or the betrayed German
youths
whose tears froze on their eyelids
when they thought of those whom
they would see no more;
Germany needed it
for the smoke of Auschwitz
that will
cease wafting the stench of the ovens
into the nostrils of Germans
only
when that day comes when all Germans will sense their unity
with those who
suffered behind the barbed wire;
Germany needed it
for all the monuments of the
world
defaced by the swastika flag
and for all the Manolis
Glezios
who ripped them up;
Germany needed it
for the thoughts of Hans and Sophie
Scholl
while, their necks on the block,
they waited for the head of our
true Germany
to fall into the basket;
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