I hate seeing songs I love lampooned, and I certainly think it hard on Eric to blame him for the Fureys' faults ... :-)

As to the German version - I beg to differ. Hannes certainly had a slightly different agenda and used Eric's song as a starting point. His version is more explicit than the Bogle version, but just how do you convey the horrors of war other than spelling them out? And the last verse is not inextricably tied to the 70s anti-war movement; it's general enough to fit ANY future threat of war, like the one hanging over us just now. So I think the German version is a fine song in its own right. I agree about the name, but I suppose one reason for leaving it out was to make the song applicable to every dead soldier the world over - which is probably what Eric meant as well, but by using this name he also fixed him firmly in the Anglo-American world.