Definitely took the “true” in the challenge title to heart and went with a historical monster. Damned if those nazis didn’t make themselves into the penultimate villains and monsters of the modern age. Hell, even Genghis Kahn had his redeaming qualities, but not them nazis. So, maybe an obvious option, but nicely done.

That middle, huge paragraph seems like it could have been broken up a bit, especially towards the end. For instance, “That cold November day twenty years ago.” seemed like an out of place fragment that could have gone better as a clause. The German then English translation for , “Orders are orders,” could have stood off on their own to break it up and draw more attention to the sentiment.

A very lateral application of the title and very worthy of the challenge.