by Spencerfiction
Sad 😢 He had changed. The very reason for imprisonment is to punish but also redeem. He had been redeemed.
He was just a boy in the war on the Eastern Front, where 20 million Russians were killed. The Germans knew that the Russians had only one rifle between two soldiers and only 5 rounds for each rifle. To that soldier, shooting ducks in a barrel was as good as a war crime and spent a lifetime hiding from that horror. I guess he couldn’t imagine any other soldier doing anything more horrific than that, so he sought to hide using another identity and only many years later discovered he would have been better off remaining as he was.