I have no politics. I just wish
other people would leave me
alone; when I was a kid I heard
about this little runt of a guy
with a weird moustache like
Oliver Hardy or Charlie Chaplin;
I wasn't a fan of Chaplin then
but Ollie was one of comedy's
most enduring pair, along with
Stan, who had a connection to
underground comix; anyway, I
figured the weird little guy was
something between the two;
Chaplin was cerebral & pointed,
Ollie & Stan were pure slapstick
to the nth level. So what did this
strange little guy do? He practically
took over the world! Invaded
Poland, attacked the USSR, itself
a huge conglomerate of war; so,
****** I learned that was his name,
& his jackbooted thugs in sharp
uniforms [once the sloppy SA were
gotten rid of], set about invading
Europe, eventually seizing France
who almost immediately divided
in two: **** sympathizing Vichy,
& the underground resistance.
There was no middle ground to the
two sides; many popular French
entertainers joining the fight against
the occupation, & those like Coco
Chanel shacked up with the invaders
for the sake of her own skin, & also
she kind of liked their style; you see,
in the beginning, Adolf ****** was
an artist who dreamt of great things;
he loved Architecture but failed
the entry exams to art school twice,
told to try his hand at architectural
school, ******'s lack formal education
preventing his qualifying. Needless
to say, Adolf designed the whole ****
thing from the ground up; his
groundbreaking thesis Mein Kampf,
spelled out his plans to transform Germany
into veritable Paradise, already thinking
beyond his time; imagining nuclear war,
space travel, even time travel,
super soldiers & androids; ****** knew
his ideas were way out there but he sat
down & designed the ******* flag for
the NSDAP, later, the uniforms for the SS,
who had succeeded the rowdy street fighting
SA in what is called the Night of the Long
Knives; how cool is that? The sequel to the
Night of Broken Glass, also referred to as
Kristallnacht. This was ******'s art, mass
participation performance of beatings, rapes,
killing & destruction; huge bonfires destroyed
precious relics of German literature, mostly
moderns who seemed to advocating a liberal,
bourgeois appeasement of the Jews,
as if going blindly into the open maw of Zion;
He could have been Walt Disney, as creative,
if not more so, or Norman Rockwell, if not as
sedate... ****** could have been a great poet,
foreshadowing the nihilism of the Beats
while carrying forward the lustful aspirations
of Nationalism. There's more to the story
but I was just a kid & the Holocaust didn't
mean **** to me, until I started dating Jewish
girls, even then the subject remained
tangential. ****** was inspired in part
by the American Confederacy which he saw
as a continuation of the successful American
Revolution; & seeing Napoleon as the heir
to the French, ******, & not only ******,
but his loyal followers imagined himself
as the repository of German knowledge
& philosophy; Kant, Wagner, Nietzsche,
Schopenhauer, as well as the Golden
Age knights & Mystic Nordic heroes...
all swirling about in ******'s head as with
the force of sheer will & heightened
oratory skills led the German nation
into the deadliest conflict in history.
****** versus the world; one artist's
attempt to remake the world in his image.
