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AntEater · 11-15-08, 08:08 AM

The poem is by an american poet named Carl Sandburg, didn't know him before.
He wrote it in 1936, so I suppose it alludes to Hitler.
So the US version is actually the original and the german version a translation.

Brecht had nothing to do with neither the quote nor the full poem.
But the mistake of attributing it to Brecht dates back at least to 1968.

Google can be your friend sometimes

I think the quote "what is robbing a bank against founding one?" is more fitting to the current situation

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AntEater Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 936 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The poem is by an american poet named Carl Sandburg, didn't know him before. He wrote it in 1936, so I suppose it alludes to Hitler. So the US version is actually the original and the german version a translation. Brecht had nothing to do with neither the quote nor the full poem. But the mistake of attributing it to Brecht dates back at least to 1968. Google can be your friend sometimes I think the quote "what is robbing a bank against founding one?" is more fitting to the current situation __________________ Last edited by AntEater; 11-15-08 at 08:09 AM.