“Would you fight for your country?”
She asked seventy years later,
when the idea of country was all mixed up
in the child who lay sleeping by the table
and the auntie reminisced about the
Germans dangling her on their knees
and feeding her ragout.
And she wondered if they missed
their wives and children,
if this was what they hoped for when
they voted for the Herr
in 1932.
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