The Poor Fools

"I watched as they glared at the prisoners with sadistic glee. I was no longer looking at flesh and blood humans, but walking corpses. Men who threw themselves at Hitler's sword, murdering millions, all for the greater "Reich." They blindly murder, while guided by the demonic intent of their superiors. The poor fools, they will all die when the final hour of the war draws near, and the last "sieg heil" is saluted before a firing squad." -from my novella "Kriegslok 2-10-0" words of the main character who is an engineer coerced into assisting the SS in the final days before the Soviet forces arrive in Poland.