How ever could you do this?
Didn’t you feel anything?
What took away all your scruples, all your shame?
You obeyed without conscience
You commanded murder, you executed
The gas was quiet, only the screams were loud
The pictures stun us
Pits full of dead bodies
Full of unfulfilled hopes
You, as their judge or hangman,
Robbed them of their future
How can a human become a monster?
Kick the highest good with his feet
To live – more than just to survive
To live – that’s our origin and goal
To live – as a small part of the big whole
To be worth living
In the name of politics
In the name of a religion
Contempt of human life will lead us into wars
And insanity triumphs
When a human life has no purpose but to be sacrificed
We had been spared all this - until now
We only know the pictures [= we weren't alive in 1945]
That is our one chance
If we understand, if we want to learn
How you and me and we [can live] together
To live – more than just to survive
To live – that’s our origin and goal
To live – as a small part of the big whole
To be worth living