Poem to Hitler (Bert Hellinger)

Hitler,

I look upon you as a human being
Just like me,
With a father, with a mother,
And with a definite destiny.

Are you therefore superior to me?
Or are you inferior?

Are you better than me
or worse than me?

If you are superior, then so am I.
If you are inferior, then so am I.
If you are better than me or worse,
Then I am that, too.

For I am a human being just like you.
If I were to respect you, then I respect myself.
If I detest you, then I detest myself.

Dare I love you?
Am I obliged to love you?
Because if I don't,
Then how could I be allowed
To love myself?

If I acknowledge that you were human,
Just like me,
Then I must look at something
That created both of us ---

Equally ---
Something that created you as well as me ---
Something that even determines
How we are both destroyed.

How could I possibly exclude myself
From our common ultimate source ---
All the while I am excluding you?

How could I ever blame this ultimate cause
And raise myself so far above it
As long as I am blaming you?

Yet I dare not pity you.

The ultimate cause of your rise and fall
Is no different from mine.

I honor it in you
As I honor it in myself,
And I surrender to everything
It has created in you ---

And to everything it has created in me ---
As well as to all it has created
In every other human being.

- Bert Hellinger《Gottesgedanken》p.247
　(Translated by Thomas Mellett)