As soon as he first stepped foot in Berlin, Paul had a question in his mind. 'How would they deploy us?'
For this expedition, since the students were not under the care of an instructor, they would be taking orders from the German military officers who were in charge of the war effort to take back Berlin.
How the army deployed them would decide Paul's approach to this expedition; not just him but every other student too.
Hojlund may have made the students vote, the majority supporting him, but even that was dependent on how the Berlin army decided to deploy the reinforcement from Copenhagen Awakened Academy.
And finally, Paul got his answer.
The middle-aged military officer looked at the students; he didn't hesitate, going straight to the point since time was not on their side. "Your role in this war is to infiltrate into the city and help us rescue out soldiers".