It is as if they had enjoyed a bath
in dragon's blood, all of ours:
A hundred times more hath foreign blood flowed!
See raging there, beset by the enemy, enclosed,
With axe and hammer, Master Hildebrandt!
But the onslaught will not and will not end,
The superiority seems to be our downfall,
as we waste our strength in victory!
Can nothing turn the fate of the empire?
But stop! From afar sounds the trumpet!
As never greater the world has seen
of dragon ships a fleet approaches
and all races can be seen coming
And all flags on the masts wave!
It is mankind on the warpath!
The land of Kant and Luther shall perish,
that of Barbarossa, Humboldt, Karl May?
The people of Schiller, Goethe, Hess doomed to die?
The people of Mozart's and Wagner's heirs,
enemies of slavery since Tell and Armin?
The good country that rose up for the first time
against the yoke of money, of interest and gold?
Where even to the enemy they wreathed glory wreaths,
never tied the enemy's head with a sack,
that is now destroyed and overrun?
Already they land! Now boarding on the coasts
The white, black, yellow, red man!
After hoisting signs and standards,
Muslims, Hindus, pagans, Christians..,
united to the fight for Middle Earth.
First Vikings and Flemings let loose!
Cossacks now! Squadron rolls by squadron!
See Nippon's circle, see China's giant masses,
All Sauron's armies at their backs!
One battle cry only: Germany, we are coming!
Honesty - on which the world could have recovered
could have long since - slandered and threatened!
Even those who could not write or read
heard the cry: "The German essence is valid!
Save the Reich from its deathly plight!
Proud Moors are approaching from Africa,
pitch-black skin, pearly white teeth.
Where they storm, the enemy is lost:
Askari horsemen, loyal to the Reich!
Their old leader is called Lettow-Vorbeck.
For today they are all, all brothers
Girded and armed for this strife.
Now, world, strike down the temple of Mordor:
Let the golden calf never again raise
his devil's head for all eternity!
Salvation is here to save Germany:
The army of mankind streams for us to battle!
Will it come to break our chains?
Or to revenge only, and lay us in the grave?
Silence frightens me! (chains clink!) I have woken up.
Gerhard Honsik