The story of the song (English and German) is about someone releasing balloons causing a radar operator to mistake them for nuclear weapons and starting World War III.
The most impressive thing to me is that in both versions they managed to perfectly insert Captain Kirk, and make it intelligible, and fit both the rhyming and tempo schemes.
The story of the song (English and German) is about someone releasing balloons causing a radar operator to mistake them for nuclear weapons and starting World War III.
False alarm of this nature were disturbingly common.
Edit: In the German version the balloons are mistaken for UFOs. Here’s a direct comparison between the two versions.
The most impressive thing to me is that in both versions they managed to perfectly insert Captain Kirk, and make it intelligible, and fit both the rhyming and tempo schemes.