bauhaus did not "expand" very much on the story, they give it nearly verbatim. i have a friend who was an army brat in the 1970's and lived in the same neighborhood as this u.s. army intelligence colonel who was killed. the GSG9 came to my friend's house. wish i could remember more or find more details.
to someone familiar with the military the supposed dying regrets of the colonel do not seem so compellingly ironic. VERY FEW people in the military have any connection at all with killing. i was in MI and my colonel was an paper-shuffling administrator like any other, a babysitter for a huge herd of air-head kids and a few wannabe bad-asses.
definitely one of my favorite bauhaus songs.
bauhaus did not "expand" very much on the story, they give it nearly verbatim. i have a friend who was an army brat in the 1970's and lived in the same neighborhood as this u.s. army intelligence colonel who was killed. the GSG9 came to my friend's house. wish i could remember more or find more details. to someone familiar with the military the supposed dying regrets of the colonel do not seem so compellingly ironic. VERY FEW people in the military have any connection at all with killing. i was in MI and my colonel was an paper-shuffling administrator like any other, a babysitter for a huge herd of air-head kids and a few wannabe bad-asses. definitely one of my favorite bauhaus songs.