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"Die Waffen legt an!" in context means "Aim your weapons now"... to understand: when an army officer shouts to it's soldiers during either an official march or at an army cadence or drill he can shout that as like an order to raise the gun in a certain manner... but also when someone gets executed by shooting like for some war prisoner back in WW2... the execution bataillon or however it is called will be standing in a row to shoot the person who gets killed. The officer will then shout something like "Die Waffen legt an!" Or only "legt an" (meaning raise your weapons now... then "Zielt!" (means "aim!") and finally "Feuern!" (Meaning "Fire!")...so yeah this sample has a real gruesome and sad back ground... you must know that a verb alone with only a "!" is considered like an order in German language. However I am no language teacher and the context is quite hard to explain so I hope I was able to explain this here a bit as best as I can ^^... just in case I am German living in Munich ^^ I hope that helps