I tend to agree with PeteyRamone's assessment. The song was written by Dee Dee Ramone, so it makes sense to align with his life growing up in Germany with a military father.
But in an interview with Your Flesh Magazine on his book The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGBS: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, Steven Lee Beeber gives this point of view: "it combines tongue in cheek fascism, digs at Nazis, silliness and shout outs to New York Jews in one nice package, namely, the chorus, which lists the rules for mercenaries."
I tend to agree with PeteyRamone's assessment. The song was written by Dee Dee Ramone, so it makes sense to align with his life growing up in Germany with a military father.
But in an interview with Your Flesh Magazine on his book The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGBS: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, Steven Lee Beeber gives this point of view: "it combines tongue in cheek fascism, digs at Nazis, silliness and shout outs to New York Jews in one nice package, namely, the chorus, which lists the rules for mercenaries."
@TdyYrLove I think you nailed it.
@TdyYrLove I think you nailed it.