When the Fascists Kept Getting Stronger
Bertolt Brecht
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When the Fascists kept getting stronger in Germany
And even workers were joining them in growing masses
We said to ourselves: We fought the wrong way.
All through our red Berlin the Nazis strutted, in fours and
fives
In their new uniforms, murdering
Our comrades.
But among the dead were people from the Reichsbanner as
well as people of ours
So we said to the comrades of the SPD:
Are we to stand by while they murder our comrades?
Fight alongside us in the Anti-Fascist
Front!
This is the answer we got:
We would perhaps fight alongside you, but our leaders
Keep advising us not to match white terror with red terror.
Every day, we said, our paper warns us against individual
acts of terror
But it also warns us every day: we can only win through with
A united Red Front.
Comrades, do get it into your heads, this "lesser evil" which
Year after year has been used to keep you completely out of
the fight
Will very soon mean having to stomach the Nazis.
But in the factories and all the dole queues
We saw the workers ready to fight.
In Berlin's eastern districts Social Democrats called
"Red Front!" in greeting, and even wore the badge
Of the anti-fascist movement. The pubs
Were full to bursting on discussion nights
And from that moment no Nazi
Dared walk the streets on his own
For the streets at least remain ours
Even if the houses are theirs.