Waffen Ss Guard Nazi War Criminals

When the Germans invaded Latvia and Estonia They decided these people would have 3rd Reich favours And so they recruited or drafted young men into the Waffen SS Who fought on the Eastern Front battles showing their mettle When the war started to go bad for the Germans These troops were still fighting backs to the wall without end Then Hitler suicided and the Germans surrendered The Latvian and Estonians couldn’t go home and were stranded The Nazis had to be tried for criminal behaviour So these Waffen SS volunteered to guard their old Nazi leaders without favour And were trained and uniformed as American soldiers Learning American military drill not goose stepping bolder Isn’t it ironic that the SS soldiers were in the pay Of the country seen as an enemy now in a shade of grey So they stood guard in the Nuremberg courts As non-goose stepping Ex-Waffen SS Soldiers of sorts Looking back at the guards so pristine And know they are not all that very clean When the Nazi criminals were tried hung or jailed These ex-Waffen SS ended up in the USA after the war ending prevailed. © Paul Warren Poetry