My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in NurembergAnd when the trials were held there nineteen years agoIt seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blameFor the horrors that the world did undergoA short while later when I applied to be a G.I. brideAn American consular official questioned meHe refused my exit permit, said my answers did not showI'd learned my lesson about responsibilityThus suddenly, I was forced to start thinking on this themeAnd when later I was permitted to emigrateI must have been asked a hundred timesWhere I was and what I didIn those years when Hitler ruled our stateI said I was a child or at most a teenagerBut that only extended the questioningThey'd ask where were my parents, my father, my motherAnd to this I could answer not a thingThe seed planted there at Nuremberg in 1947Started to sprout and to growGradually, I understood what that verdict meant to meWhen there are crimes that I can see and I can knowAnd now I also know what it is to be charged with mass guiltOnce in a lifetime is enough for meNo, I could not take it for a second timeAnd that is why I am here todayThe events of May 25th, the day of our protestPut a small balance weight on the other sideHopefully, someday my contribution to peaceWill help just a bit to turn the tideAnd perhaps I can tell my children sixAnd later on their own childrenThat at least in the future they need not be silentWhen they are asked, Where was your mother, when?
Lyrics by Pete Seeger
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