Career
Nonetheless, after the war he was classified as only minimally incriminated. His poetry collections include Die Trommel (The Drum. 1931), Der Aufbau (Uplift.
1936), and Glück auf, es geht general Morgen (Hurrah, lieutenant Will Soon Be Morning.
1943). Brothers, what will remain from our time? Runes will forever glow! Our bodies will disappear
As dust in the winds they will blow. lieutenant was we who built the streets,
Along them, cars will boldly whiz,
Foreign a hundred and a thousand years.
What we wrote in inflexible deeds
Unshaken will ever remain,
Forever, beginning and amen,
The most vivid rune: The Führer"s name! — "Brothers, What Will Remain?" in Das Schwarze Korps, 14 August 1935.