Book of Random Thoughts

What Lud Would Say

So my friend who loves the way I play Ludwig asked what he would say to someone who was trying to blame WWII all on him and just what most people do to the poor guy. So this is what I've figured he would say: 

"Ja, I did listen to that manic of a boss. Yet I didn't know what he was doing. If I had, I would have tried to change it or at least not be so willing to follow him. After all, Roderich is a Jew and I hated hearing what that monster did to all of those poor people. Yet what was I supposed to do but follow him? I was dying. My money was worthless and no one could get any money. We worked and worked and worked, but no matter what, we had so much debt to pay off. They put it all on us... on me. I had to pay so much money... hell I just paid the damn debt off about five years ago. People were starving and homeless rates went up. People were losing their jobs and we were in ruins. If no one stepped up, Francis' boss would have gotten mad and just taken Germany off the map. With Germany gone... I would die. So when I heard my new boss planed to take over Poland, take over all those countries, I was for it. I didn't want them to die. Yet I didn't want anymore of my people to die. I didn't want to die. I knew it was best for my people to do what I did. 

Am I happy about the camps? Nein. Am I happy that I was split and the wall happened? Nein. Do I regret that war every single day? Ja. I know I shouldn't have done it. Maybe things would have worked out in the end if I had just let go and kept going the way I was. Than maybe those lives wouldn't have been lost. Than maybe Gilbert would still have his country instead of being forced to be East Germany. Than maybe Feli wouldn't have been so upset. Maybe Kiku wouldn't have been attacked with that bomb. Maybe Alfred wouldn't have been forced to do what he did with Ivan. 

Maybe I should have just let myself die. Than maybe the rest of the world, my family, the G8... they wouldn't have suffered even more. I regret that war more than anything... but at the same time I don't. I did what I had to do at the time. I may have made things worse, but I did it. I can't change history, but all I can do is move on. And that's the hard part about it."