An absurd order given
Sheer astonishment
Organize new defense lines

With shattered regiments
Fight to the last bullet
Never to withdraw

Approval of the death sentence
Berlin's will is law


Rejecting the final ultimatum
All forbidden to negotiate
A threatening liquidation of an army

Still refusing to capitulate
Leading their men to contine the fight
Comfortable generals in warm barracks

In the open fields their soldiers die

Blood on filthy hands

Insanity commands

Recruiting the starving and the crippled

Crimping the wounded and the diseased
Executing the looting amputated
Closing cruel eyes for their infamy

Praising the emaciated faces
Lots of decorations but no bread
Frozen human flesh amongst the ruins

Cannibals consume the burning dead

A pathos of treason

Blood on filthy hands
Till the last convulsion
Insanity commands