Ich Bin Der Ewige Jude

"As part of its heightened wartime attack on Jews, the Ministry of Propaganda turned to motion pictures as a medium for antisemitic messages...One of the film’s most notorious sequences compares Jews to rats that carry contagion, flood the continent, and devour precious resources." -The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ich bin der ewige jude

My crime is what I believe

I ate up all of your food,

For that, you force me to leave.

Ich bin der ewige jude

Dark is my hair and my skin

My breathing your air you consider rude;

Existing is my sin.

Ich bin der ewige jude

You call me a licentious rat

Your words are baseless and they are crude;

What did I do to deserve that?

Ich bin der ewige jude

All around me is your hate

Tell me reality merely is skewed,

I ask what wrong I’ve done, you tell me to concentrate.

Ich bin der ewige jude

I’m trained, to see my place

I beg you not to strip me nude;

You spit in my face.

Ich bin der ewige jude

Though my life, from me, you stole

I pray when by Adoni you are viewed,

He have mercy on your wretched soul.