Story: All these people are so proud of me. I hate it, why am I getting praised for being a murderer? Father tells me how I am improving the Schneider family name. Telling my children how brave I am. My children respect me for reasons so sinister. How am I protecting anyone? All the Germans convinced the Jewish are evil. Well their not! My life is backwards, as it is tortures me to torture others who do not deserve it. The worst thing about the whole situation is I am good at my job. The Jewish listen to me as I show more respect than the rest of the guards. I have to do my job, I wish there was another way about achieving peace between the German’s and the Jewish. The discrimination is foul, I hate it when fellow Nazi’s call the Jewish “Jews,” I hate the fact I am Nazi. It should be the Jewish in the position of the Nazi’s. It is really a kill or be killed situation out here. I despise every fact about being a S.S Commander including the job title. Just getting up knowing that I am responsible for the enormous fence around them makes me feel nauseous. At least I am the Commander, so I can treat the Jewish with more respect than most without getting in trouble. When the retired commander Klaus Weber was working, he abused the Jewish so much to the point where I thought about finishing that bastard off myself. Having to impress that guy was infuriating. I want to hide as the Nazi’s want my son to part of the Nazi Youth. Imagining  Nickolaus, my intelligent boy shooting guns is enough to send me into an early grave. The struggles I am going through are horrible and the treatment to the Jewish is to. Why did the Holocaust exist? It will anger me until the day I die.

100 word explanation: In the story above was explaining the struggles that a S.S Commander (Person in charge of a concentration camp) went through during WWII. The struggles of the roles of a S.S Commander made Schneider (S.S Commander) very disgusted and effected his mental health. To empathize with his man, who truly had a good heart though his actions did not show it, was easier to write in a first person POV. It explains the emotions of Schneider in a really unique way. My choice was to write the story in the perspective of a regretful guard. I am sure many camp guards were regretful and times during the holocaust and I really wanted to bring that to light in the story.

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