The fanatically nationalistic texts to the songs in this collection are accompanied by a caricature negro, a Jewish looking Uncle Sam and so on. I share many of Herr Rennicke's opinions and I share much of his cynicism as expressed in his lyrics. The problem is that Herr Rennicke suffers from the fault, characteristically German I believe and characteristically national-socialist too, of taking every good argument so far that fanaticism comes perilously close to crankiness. One song intended as a satire against immigration fails as satire because it is simply not subtle enough. It's amusing to a degree if you are the sort of person who likes making jokes at the expense of immigrants, but even the best jokes pale after you've heard them often enough.
Successful satire needs to be made of more lasting stuff.
Admittedly, that is hardly the function of a lyrical ballad, but these are pitched at such a narrow audience that they will fail to reach many who could and should be reached. This suits the interests of the Western establishment in general and the puppet government in Bonn in particular. A nightmare scenario for them would be someone like Rennicke getting to the top of the charts. That would mean far more than some vulnerable upsurge in right-wing voting at the polls. So far as Germany's war dead are concerned, Rennicke is one of the very few young Germans prepared to publically defend the honour of the German army in the last war.