The High Executioner

This is a terrible personal story. This is a story from the pit of Hell with some luminous moments. The story is the echo of the "Holocaust's Screams". Even Satan stands aghast before the 'High Executioner'. He is an SS Officer, named Gunther Vielbach, sent to Russia in 1941 to perform a ghastly job. He commanded a Company whose task was to shoot Jews and Gypsies by the ten of thousands. SS Vielbach becomes increasingly tormented, and battles a demon inside himself. SS Vielbach spends time and time again trying to rationalize the crimes he has committed. He uses his memory to construct an inner-journal of what he has done. Some passages in the book describe the massacres of Jews and Gypsies as it happened: so much violence and atrocity, no details are spared.This is what happened. This is the truth. The reader comes to meet a few Jewish families before the deportation, and the life in the ghetto. There are also the few of the few who have gone into hiding into Russia's vast forest where they have joined the partisans, and the reader discovers "Luminous moments".