The Ufa Newsreel

(for the cover photo)

I record the Ufa Newsreel,
I‘ve been recording it for years,
And I record meticulously
The events of the Reich,
I once filmed the revolution,
From which nothing has come,
The leader of the people was allowed
To be assassinated very early.
Then Ebert became president,
The Socialists got positions,
And lost their temperament,
It came at your expense.

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I record the Ufa Newsreel
And record meticulously,
On my celluloid strip
You see the time from past to present.

Then came the coup of the blessed Kapp,
He was disgraced by the people,
And with the Mark it went downhill,
Many ministers met
Their death by an assassin‘s shot,
Erzberger was murdered,
The Right rejoiced in it,
Though they feigned pity,
Yes, the Ufa Newsreel
Always was there,
Filming the murder of Rathenau
And Germany bore the costs.

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I record etc.

The wildest inflation came,
The occupation of the Ruhr area came,
Million, billion, trillion, quadrillion,
And Hitler‘s incitement to hatred of the people.
Hunger came with the fall of the Mark,
The banknote printing press raced,
And Hitler staged the Beer Hall Putsch
With his big mouth.
Then came the Rentenmark

The Rentenmark was a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany, after the previously used “paper” Mark had become almost worthless.It was replaced in 1924 by the Reichsmark.

 by Schacht,
Locarno treaties,
Made by Briand and Stresemann,
We were on the right path.

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I record etc.

And then you chose Hindenburg,
And then it continued,
He was thoroughly military,
And Germany armed merrily
The Reichswehr’s hundred thousand men,
Military units,
Armed and in the army‘s spell,
One saw them endlessly,
Wehrwolf and Stahlhelm and SA,
And the Young German Fraternity,
One saw the A class battleship,
Germany had become crazy.

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I record etc.

Unemployment came,
And then came … the Saviour,
I still see Adolf as if today,
As the new Reich’s Governor.
He took over in ‘33,
Managed the fate of the Reich,
And Germany showed what it can do,
It has fallen into line
And went with him through thick and thin,
And willingly followed,
And today it‘s pretty worn out,
And feels it will lose.

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I record etc.

Today the Ufa Newsreel records
The final German images,
The Führer is completely red and blue,
He rages like a wild one,
Swinging his “Mein Kampf” as a bible,
And tries to fire you up,
But Germany is in its death agony,
And has had enough of screamers.
I record the Ufa Newsreel,
Presenting the German cycle of fate,
And hope meticulously
To show Hitler‘s death soon.