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!
Bruno was by no means a sadist. He did not particularly enjoy taking the lives of his enemies. Killing when done righteously was no different from a chore. But there was a certain kind of enemy that Bruno would admit if he was in the mood to do so, that he took great enjoyment in putting down.
Those types of enemies were the ones who had caused incalculable human suffering in his past life and had either directly or indirectly contributed to the state of the world he had found himself in at the time of his death.
It was perhaps because the Black Hand was partially to blame for both of these things that Bruno had an unusually sinister smirk on his face as he aimed down the sights of his MP-34 Submachine gun and waited for the door to open. After all, simply spraying lead through the door without confirming his target was both irresponsible and dangerously reckless.