Whose Fault by Michael Rosen

I look at the names of the police
who knocked on the door
of my father's uncle
in the middle of the night 
and arrested Martin.

Here they are:

and their officer in charge,

Is it their fault?

They were ordered to arrest him
by Gaston Jammet, the Sub-Prefect, 
who was following the orders

of Louis Bourgain, the Prefect.

Louis Bourgain was following
the orders of

Hermann Herold,

the local German Commander 
of the Security Police

He was following the orders 
of:

René Bousquet,

Secretary-General responsible 
for the French Police,

and Carl Oberg,

Higher SS and Police Leader, 
based in Paris,

who was under the command of

(who was in charge of organising 
the trains that transported

Jews to the Concentration Camps),
who was under the command of
Heinrich Himmler,

who was under the command of

Adolf Hitler, the Leader of Nazi Germany.
But why were

Hermann Herold
and Carl Oberg in France?

Because Nazi Germany invaded France 
and “occupied” it.
Why did they do that?

Because Adolf Hitler figured out

that he couldn’t expand Germany into 
Eastern Europe

until he had defeated 
Western Europe.

But why did they round up millions of Jews

from Germany and the countries they “occupied”, 
and send them to Concentration Camps

to be killed?

Because the Nazis believed

that this was the right thing to do.

But how did people with such 
monstrous ideas get into power?

Yes, good question. 
How did they?