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Spandau ballet

It made sense
after Nuremberg to put away
a few Nazis

during his hour a day
in the yard
Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess continued to goose step
into his 90s
and some called his exercise
the Spandau ballet

it was fitting that Hitler's architect
Albert Speer should have been held
in an artless hell
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also appropriate
that Wiesbaden
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should have hosted an American base
given it had been Goring's spa
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as well as Dostoevsky's
and Nietzsche's too

less safe was Eichmann's extradition
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from Argentina
but Peron would never have surrendered him
and anyway
justice was served
goose stepping to the end.
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