After the crucial offensive
Follows a shameful retreat
An attack against the western flank

And they might escape defeat
Forced into hedge-hog position
A break-through is strictly prohibited

Thus murdering thousands of men
Feeding them
Assuring them they will get out

The 6th army's faith in it's Führer

Von Manstein's relief not succeeding

The panzers of Hoth are pushed back
Experiencing their own tactic
Entrapped in this Kesselschlacht

Foremost frontlines changing daily
Innumerable casualties
In overcrowded field-hospitals

No ending to the injuries
Evacuating Marinowka
The pulverized 3rd I'd

On the high-road to Karpowka
Leftovers of infantry
Passing the horse cadavers

A path marked with bloodstains
Distorted division vehicles


Cracked skulls, piece of brains
Crooked frozen bodies
Soldiers die where they fell

Crawling on the trail of treason
Entering the Portal to Hell


The clearange of Pitomnik
In the raging snow
Desperate Junkers planes

Circling above
Wounded forgotten
Metal, blood and dirt

Running to the safety
Of Stalingrad's outskirts


Puny figures sleeping
In stinking holes
Thick fog and black smoke

Living like moles
Under-nourished troopers
Turn into dust

Typhoid and dysentery
Vaporizing pus


Eating their comrades entrails
Accomplained by crows
Chaplains commit suicide

As there's no god above
Everywhere carcasses
Too frozen to eat

Nothing to fight for
And no more blood to bleed