Herman Van Veen
Miscellaneous
If things had gone just a little differently
If Hitler had won the war, which would have made little difference with that V-2,
We would still have a means of survival 'loan vouchers
Or was the situation afterwards not too bad?
We arrived without a non-Jewish declaration
We got back to normal income again
And there was no insured custody
For the gypsies who don't do anything to anyone
There would no longer be a Jew or a gypsy,
If things had happened just a little differently.
No Surinamese had come here
And no Moluccan was European
No guest worker was employed
Or was he? the dirty work also has to be done.
People would talk about concentration camps:
Oh well, that's not too bad, there are so many claims.
We could just leave it at that
Because no witness had returned.
The Nazis would have done it much more thoroughly,
If things had gone a little differently.
Hitler had grown a snow-white mustache
Was respected by the majority
As the father of the motorways
And he had already liquidated Musschert.
Who would appear in public?
Who would rule us from The Hague?
Who would be in live in big houses?
Maybe the same rich people as today?
We would probably find a meaning in our existence again,
If things had gone a little differently.
Strictly forbidden for homosexuals< br/>It would be written on the cafes.
What deviated from the norm would be killed
People bought Mercedes and B.M.W.s
And then race along the road like rulers
That everyone saw their power and prosperity
And the resistance had been the work of fools
And England became impoverished day by day.
What enriched itself was hatred and racial delusion,
/>If things had gone just a little differently.
We all know that Hitler lost.
We were saved from tyranny then
But otherwise would I also play a song?
A blood and soil song? Or one of resistance?
Could there still be something in such hopeless times
like a spark here and there
of courage and hope, which makes books spread?
Jan Campert and Van Randwijk, Anne Frank?
Would the good, the beautiful, the true still exist,
If things had happened just a little differently?

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