The Enemy

Album: Spreading the Disease (1985)
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  • The song is about Adolf Hitler: "He is but a solitary man whose prejudice will spread like a flame across the land." It talks about him starting the Holocaust ("The final solution was mass genocide") and mentions his suicide when he was about to lose the war ("He took his life, he'll never pay the price"). >>>
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    Cody - Kansas City, MO

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    Anthrax: let's write song about Hitler
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