Der Untergang / Победа!!!

Act I - The Road to Stalingrad

Hear the ominous tale of one of the great battles in mankind's bloody history

Fought on the shores of the Volga river in the vastness of the Russian territory

Oh cursed yet glorified name of Stalingrad - immortalized for centuries to come

Where so many died a valiant death, and any human awareness grew utterly numb

22-06-1941

Three million troops follow their Führer's call

Marching for honour, oil and 'Lebensraum'

Venturing into the unknown Soviet realm

Endeavouring the eastern Titan overwhelm

History was shaped henceforth and inconceivably

Into the (Third) Reich's ultimate fall, eventually

Nonetheless, those high moral and vigorous summer days

Such contrast to the carnage guiding many to their final resting place

As the vast army marches forward across the desolate Kaukasus plane

Great in number, contemptuous eyes aflame with the programmed hatred they contain

Towards that illustrious city where their miserable fate will be ultimately beset

The long and arduous journey to Stalingrad - walking the path of the dead

14-09-1942

As the city walls draw ever nearer now

Obliged to their everlasting Führer-vow

The 6th army strides towards it's final bane

'Tsaritsyn' will soon bequeath its violent disdain

Comrades - millions lying dead on tortured ground

Valiant souls forever to this scorched earth bound

On this eve the Soviets hear the (German) battle cry

But History's decree, haha... none shall ever defy!

Act II - The Battle of Stalingrad

(102.0) Mamajev Koergan - the ancient burial ground

Where the gruesome voices of the dead in eternity resound

'Rattenkrieg' obliteration - the stench of rotting corpses fills the air

Through cold, disease and sadistic rivalry now emerges infinite despair

27-09-1942

Tsjoeikov's 62nd - bleeds for the iron force of comrade Stalin's might

Tremendous clamour of the battle, the sheer brutality with which divided Soviets fight

The legendary factories of Stalingrad dominate the suffering city's northern part

(Dzerzhinsky, Barrikady, Silikat, Red October, Lazur)

Apocalyptic clash within their burnt remains, worn-out soldiers constantly enduring hellish pains

(In the streets, the Luftwaffe warrants the red army's forces utter death from the sky)

22-10-1942

Prelude to assault on Red October - where the wolf the sheep will finally become

Now on the dawn of coming winter, von Paulus' forces destined to their foe succumb!

Massive Soviet artillery effectively eliminates the (concentrating) German lines

In these ruthless days of culminating massacre efficiently the German moral undermines

The Russians do avert the fall of Stalingrad by the sheer exhaustive sacrifice of many lives

Beyond belief their 62nd army, this shattering encounter only just survives

19-11-1942

(The red army launches its most formidable operation 'Uranus')

Forward! Comrades march! Eradicate the final German infantry!!

Ferociously cut their throats! For our unified fatherland's supremacy!

Onward! Brothers, follow my call! Unchain our invigorated wrath!!

Stalingrad in ruins (our renowned city forlorn), yet regard our (novel) glorious path...

(Cursed Stalingrad)

Act III - Epilogue: When Wolf Becomes Sheep - The Road to Berlin

At Stalingrad, innumerable soldiers heroically gave their lives for their motherland

In retrospect, the vicious battle at the Volga river, delivered within the remnants of a once proud

Yet such condemned city, embodies the destruction and comprehensive humiliation of the German Forces,

a manifest reality which would haunt its Führer all along their successive retreat to Berlin

The roads to Stalingrad were covered with the remains of a dying German army, the bodies of

Countless German soldiers denoting the harsh aftermath of this most cruel and decisive battle

02-02-1943

At last, behold the proud Soviet flag governing Mamajev Koergan

Remember this splendid day forth, with the alien tyrant now gone!!!

And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,

neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away...