Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
The time eventually came for the German Reich to reward its soldiers who had participated in the Russian Civil War. In the streets of Berlin, a wide celebration was being had. Specifically, a military parade. It was not, however, a parade for the actual German Army, but for the roughly 25,000 German Soldiers who had gone off and volunteered to put down the Red Menace.
This event had several major purposes in mind. One was, of course, to show appreciation to the men who had boldly taken up arms against the enemy of all of humanity. But two was to gain support for the Right-Wing within German politics of the era.