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My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage

My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg

And when the trials were held there nineteen years ago

It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blame

For the horrors that the world did undergoA short while later when I applied to be a G. I. bride

An American consular official questioned me

He refused my exit permit, said my answers did not show

I'd learned my lesson about responsibilityThus suddenly, I was forced to start thinking on this theme

And when later I was permitted to emigrate

I must have been asked a hundred times, where I was and what I did

In those years when Hitler ruled our stateI said, I was a child or at most a teenager

But that only extended the questioning

They'd ask, where were my parents, my father, my mother

And to this I could answer not a thingThe seed planted there at Nuremberg in 1947

Started to sprout and to grow

Gradually, I understood what that verdict meant to me

When there are crimes that I can see and I can knowAnd now I also know what it is to be charged with mass guilt

Once in a lifetime is enough for me

No, I could not take it for a second time

And that is why I am here todayThe events of May 25th, the day of our protest

Put a small balance weight on the other side

Hopefully, someday my contribution to peace

Will help just a bit to turn the tideAnd perhaps I can tell my children six

And later on their own children

That at least in the future they need not be silent

When they are asked, "Where was your mother, when?"

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