This refers to post-war germany (‘A Nation Reborn, Reborn into a new world, Awoken from dark eras’), . Altough there is a widespread post war guilt among the german population (‘Ruins of an insane dream still cast their shadows’), many still believe in the ideals praised by the Nazis in the 1930' and 40'. Furthermore, many Nazi associates never were convicted for the atrocities they helped commit and some even made it to high government positions (‘And demons from the past still walk among us’).
As revealed in Bundestag document 17/8134, a total of 25 cabinet ministers had joined the Nazi-Party earlier, aswell as chancellor Kurt Georg Giesinger and president Walter Scheel.