I suppose indoctrination started in my youth
However, I did not follow the obvious and simple path
My peers excelled in profitable exploits
While I remained behind in obscurity
The timing could not have been better, and I joined right away
My use in this World was to be instrumental in the act of war
Infinite heads to count in the desert heat waiting for inspection to end
A strategy, shunned, but imagined the enemy was adapted and executed by us
In a short while we’d managed to capture and conquer the continent wholly
“A numerically inferior but technically superior” force that had yet to see defeat
Machines doing battle was Guderian’s dream and as we fought, so did he
Flesh and bone no match for this new steel age
Explosions bring fire to the night and I could see, ahead of me
The bodies of an entire Army Group lashed to nothing in an hour
When a man dies, to him nothing will come
When a thousand dies, a thousand women weep
When a million die, fear of death will rise
When this world is ours, a billion will have met a fiery hellish demise
Vorwarts!
With the speed of the wind, and the force of a vice, we’re wedging a hole in their lines
By crushing them in armored engagements, forcing their retreat,
this formation of machines will bestow terror
No Allied force has yet to see the Sun after a battle that lasted the night
Our flag will be that of the Earth if our victory is as certain as it seems
Exhaustion and quarreling within our ranks have allowed the enemy to gain ground
Each day they push us back further and further
Humiliation and defeat are on our bloody hands
A different type of warfare has surfaced
Aircraft will now play a major role
The three Eastern cities are holding
And our push in that direction has halted completely
The once gloried Wedge Formation
Has fallen back into the obscure idea it came from
They’re now less than fifty kilometers away and their numbers are staggering
But with the glory of our past behind us, our morale takes an odd lift
For we know we’ve lost the war, we still fought to death
And for every man who died, ten Allied lay in his wake.