| Half a thousand, half a hundred
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| Six times two, pick up your pen
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| Child, my child, count it up now
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| That’s the number that I mean
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| It’s a number, just a number
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| One of hundreds, a sign of shame
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| Each man’s jacket had a number
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| Men had numbers, none had names
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| Hitler’s system took their freedom
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| Took them prisoner, one by one
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| For the courage of their convictions
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| They were tortured, gassed and burned
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| They took communist, they took pacifist
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| They took social democrat
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| Jew and Christian all were prisoner
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| In the concntration camp
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| To the camp of Esterwegen
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| Listen child and understand
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| They took Carl von Ossietsky
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| And broke his body — but not his mind
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| In Berlin upon the 4th of May
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| 19 hundred and 38
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| The Gestapo with its treatment
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| Signed his death certificate
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| Five-six-two his prison number
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| Listen, child, I beg you please
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| Keep in mind, always remember
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| He got the Nobel Prize for Peace
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| In the struggle against injustice
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| He fought hard and he fought long
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| Child — remember Ossietsky
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| Peace won’t come by words alone |