EXTRACTS from the NOVEL
'He said he gave the
order to open fire in one of the barns. He went into detail about the whole
affair, describing how wretched he felt but as an SS officer, he could not
question or refuse to carry out an order. I sensed he needed to offload the
remorse that was consuming his inner soul. He leaned back against one of the
cabin walls, and looked skywards as if seeking redemption; he was in tears.''They were all responsible…even those who did not fire the weapons. Every one of those soldiers in the Das Reich Division was guilty by association. Many of those who fired the bullets were conscripts from Alsace'
'I think his
resolve to revisit the area where the soldiers of the Das Reich Division
committed their dreadful atrocities became his way of confronting his demons. I
really cannot imagine his state of mind, and of course, we will never know.
When he cried in my arms that night in the garden, he repeatedly stated that
they were SS soldiers following orders. None of this excuses what took place,
nor will we ever understand what drove these maniacs to act in that way in the
name of Hitler’s Third Reich.'jamesvanceauthor.wix.com/awesomefiction#!home/mainPage
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