<ot>it's such a great book, I couldn't see it maligned...
Your poem also has a good provenance, which I suspected (because there aren't many usual suspects in this case) and finally found...
yale.edu
To Be or Not to Be, the Mel Brooks 1988 remake of the 1942 film...
the “Naughty Nazis” musical number in which Frederick Bronski plays the role of Hitler. Bronski, as Hitler, enters his office and is greeted by two SS officers who alternately greet him with, “Heil Hitler,” “Heil Hitler” and to which he responds, “Heil Myself.” Having reacted to the negative press of foreign newspapers, he (Hitler) claims that he is not a monster, nor a madman; that he doesn’t want war; he only wants peace, peace, peace . . . “A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France, a little piece of Portugal and Austria perchance . . . ”
The song (also written by Brooks with Ronny Graham) continues. As Hitler prances and sings of his gluttonous desires for little pieces of the world—“a little slice of Turkey, a little spot of Greece . . .”—his officers tear off corresponding countries from a world map.
Quality.
<edit> and Bethnal Green to Toronto? Takes all sorts... LOL. A fair if cold choice. |
