Nazis

I had first learned about them from the black & white flicks made back in the 1940s. They wore strange monocles and spoke kraut English, broken, guttural with hints of Yiddish. I watched reruns, astonished at their lack of kindness, how they killed their enemies. They clicked their black boots, eager to extinguish them like rats in a sewer, weak and skittish, on their way to <i>Night of the Generals, </i> where they grew faint when viewing decadent art, where they would murder whores to get their kink, malignant, always evil, on the throes of madness; and then on to other roles, in <i>Battle of the Bulge, The Train, </i> the part of "I-know-nothing" Schultz, and colonel Klink, there on the backlot set of <i>Hogan's Heroes.</i>