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Adolf Hitler's father was a bastard

but it's not that simple.

In fact young Hitler had a moustache
a real RAF job with waxed points
like von Hindenburg
(not the airship, the general).

He twiddled with them at night
in bed, frustrated.
He twiddled with them in the trenches
as the shells flew overhead.

I've got to have a Putsch, he thought.

And so he did. But it let him down.
The transmission was duff
and he ended up in the can
twiddling his moustache.

He wrote Mein Kampf there
and looked into the mirror often.
It was the moustache, he decided,
and the self-indulgent twiddling.

Germany needs young men of resolution.
So off came his points and the wax.
Gradually the razor moved inward
ever inward.

Hitler checked at each stroke.
It was a revelation with one inch to go.
There was the next chapter;
ein Land, ein Volk, ein Führer.