This parable is used here to portray Ribbentrop's mistake – especially his fatal misjudgment of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, namely Operation Barbarossa.

On this day, eighty years ago, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces, marking the end of a 
reign of terror that cost millions their lives. Yet today, as right-wing extremism rises again 
across Europe and beyond—with parties like the AfD gaining traction even among the youth—we are 
forced to confront a grim truth: humanity is forgetting. Forgetting the camps, the killings, the 
fear. Forgetting what hatred, once elected, can do. This poem wants to be a warning to those who 
think tyranny wears only jackboots and speaks only in screams. It now wears suits, smiles, and 
wins votes. History has spoken—but are we still listening?

They marched in boots that cracked the ground,
With banners raised and rifles crowned.
They tore through homes and books and laws,
And stitched the world with brutal claws.

No freedom lived beneath their reign,
But silence choked by wire and chain.
The trains ran smooth, the ovens roared—
While neighbours vanished, none implored.

They painted lies in black and red,
With every vote, more justice bled.
And when at last the guns were still,
Six million ghosts lay on that hill.

Yet now, the same cold slogans flare,
In suited words and measured glare.
They smile where once the tyrants sneered,
And poison what our parents feared.

The youth, unscarred by war and ash,
Now cheer the jackboots in their sash.
And older hearts, by anger fed,
Forget the cost, the mass, the dead.

But what you flirt with, breeds in fire—
Not safety, strength, nor calm desire.
It grows in hate, consumes the just,
And leaves a nation ground to dust.

This road is known, its end is near,
Not forged by hope, but ruled by fear.
You will regret the choice you make,
When freedom's bones again shall break.

So mark the date—this bloodstained day—
And ask what price you're right to pay.
For if the past can't teach us all,
We’ll build anew the same grim fall.