Franz Jacob was a man, grandfather of a friend of yours He became an adult in between the world wars Some folks are born with silver spoons, they get an easy pass Not people like Franz Jacob, who was of the working class He was determined to change this since the time he was a kid And he joined the leftwing youth groups like so many others did He became an organizer as one would expect he might Für eine neue Welt des Friedens und der Freiheit
He ran for City Council – he ran and then he won Back in the Weimar years this kind of thing could be done He pushed a red agenda from his City Council seat While not far from the rathaus there was fighting in the street And when Hitler rose to power -- he ruled with iron fists The first ones to be arrested were the communists Those who took the oath with the rising of the Right Für eine neue Welt des Friedens und der Freiheit
He was sent to Sachsenhausen, tortured and deprived After 7 years his release arrived He joined up with the resistance, then went underground Spending years beneath the air raids, always fearing to be found Spending years beneath the air raids as he wrote and organized Agitating opposition beneath the gestapo's eyes The distant, red horizon -- always in his sight Für eine neue Welt des Friedens und der Freiheit
Franz Jacob's day of reckoning was when his struggle ceased As the tanks of liberation were rolling from the east He was arrested for the last time, July, 1944 Decades later they'd look back and wonder what was that all for As Franz Jacob faced his killers on his execution date There in the dying moments of the fascist state Who knows what he was thinking on his last September night Für eine neue Welt des Friedens und der FreiheitTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
