Säkeitä Erwin Rommelille [English translation]

If you were alive I wouldn't care for you

you would be an engineer or a soldier

and I'm a humanist, you didn't understand art

you said about beautiful monastery

that it should be dugout

You lived in a time of violence

and your career was war

you sent every day thousands of people to die

you were still bigger

than the brutal time around you

you fulfilled the hardest commandment

- you knew how to love your enemy

refrain:

When politicians and humanists were quiet

you looked Hitler in the eye

and called him a villain

you had an original brain

but you thought with them

too honest people get murdered nowadays, too

murdered nowadays, too

Devil sent a telegram to your funeral:

your big victories would be a part of history

it doesn't interest you

- you were more than history asked

In the time of violence

you were a humanlike human