The War Down Stricken Lane

Chapter 10: The Heartless

WARNING: THERE IS MAJOR TOPICS INCLUDING PREJUDICE, AND EXECUTIONS
Note: What is being said IS in German, however due to this chapter being mainly in this language I will simply have it in English for ease of the reader.
The structured soul of the German HQ... nice looking, well furnished, and just genuinely nice looking. The young sadistic Adalheid wandered the hall... his plan was gonna work perfectly, and he would be able to fight in the front with a rifle once more, and maybe he'll get to hunt down that Colonel. He entered the room... that board room sorted nicely. Three were within that room talking... two Field Marshal's, and the puppet leader? Peculiar... each of the leaders looked to him, and he approached Henry in at ease. "Sir!" The Field Marshal stood up, he stared down Adalheid with great focus, "Brief me." Adalheid smiled evilly, it was all coming together. "Sir, there has been a group of American Commandos that got behind the lines. I want permission to hunt them down." Henry looked at him for a bit... "That won't be necessary, I'll have my own men hunt him down." Adalheid grumbled... "is there something wrong Soldat?" He wasn't gonna talk back... "No sir..." he really wanted to make that Colonel pay... "Then you are dismissed." Adalheid was beginning to leave, "Oh... and don't head back to the front. You'll be staying here at HQ. We will be keeping a close eye on you." There was no point arguing... he left quicker than he came in... disappointment filled his mind. He'd have to wait for the Americans to come to him.

Ted Everette was stuck in a Kubelwagon once more, heading towards what was thought to be a resistance base, he had some men, and some SS with him... however they weren't in the uniforms he figured them to be in... they were different... some had red on their uniforms in splotches, he couldn't tell if it was blood or not. That was when they reached the entry point between two lines of barbed wire... the buildings around were tall, and untouched spared from the bombings due to not having any logistical importance. However the area seemed quiet... Practically void of life. They eventually did pull up to the suspected location of resistance, a tall untouched building, which was boarded up, by the windows. Each man lined up near the doors, one knocked on the door... no answer. "Prepare to breach!" The one at the door prepared to open and rush in, Ted grabbed his Luger pistol. CRASH! Down went the door... however nothing happened as they bashed in. The house was dark, lit by dim lights around the area, it smelled quite clean oddly enough, However empty, and quiet. The only sounds were the creaks of the intruding Ted, and his forces moving around that dark house. "House is clear!" All the guns lowered with a clambering of metals, and each soldier split up to search for clues. However Ted was overly confused, "Where are they?? I swear this is where all the evidence pointed!" He continued moving through the house looking anywhere he could, he desperately needed to find these resistance troops or it would cost him. He entered the next room... a nice recreational room with a rug, a grandfather clock, and a desk with office supplies plus a radio. He remembered listening to the German broadcasts through one of those... it's what brought him here, something he didn't feel cut out for. He walked across the room towards that radio which was making staticky noises... it seemed broken. Suddenly something trips him off his feet as he walked over the Rug... and out of curiosity he lifted it up... it was a hatch. "Everyone come here! I've found something!" With some time his men joined up with him, "It's a hatch. Prepare to head in." Ted positioned his hand on the hatch... "Here goes nothing." He lifted the hatch and pulled himself down a creaky old ladder, at the bottom there was barrels that lined like a labyrinth through that dusty cellar. For a Cellar however it was quite big. The rest of his men followed behind him as he navigated through the barrels, until he spotted something... several things... several living things. A golden Jewish Star of David shined through on each of them. Their faces were well lit and scared, some hugged children too... and Ted was filled with guilt, he held a hand behind him to his men, "They are civilians! Do not fire or apprehend them!" One of his men were about to talk back, "But they are je-" Ted looked back... "That's an order." He looked back towards them, and approached one gingerly and carefully, "Don't worry... we aren't gonna hurt you.." one of them reached out and touched his hand... a child. "You see?" Everyone of the people down there calmed... before the hatch opened again and running began to sound... Ted looked back, and backed away from the Jewish men, women and children. Just then the SS troops come in yelling, it was hard to hear what was happening, but screams, fear, and the sound of children crying could be heard... they were being lined up against the wall. an SS soldier comes up to him. "Sir we have orders to terminate them!" He looked at them, "Ja..." he didn't sound too certain as he looked to the people lined against the wall, watching tears from the children, as mothers held them close, and fathers watching desperately wishing there was something they could do to protect them... and there was Ted now forcing himself to pull out his Luger and aim... he looked to his right, and his left, then back to the Jewish people... children cried... women hugged them tighter covering their eyes, one man even charged breaking silence with gunfire that deafened everyone... screams rang out... crying too... an SS officer began to yell! "drei!  zwei!  eines!" Ted closed his eyes as the sound of shooting rang through the room... he didn't even pull the trigger once, and he knew that they were all dead...

The Chapter is short as I have ran out of ideas for this chapter specifically. Next Chapter WILL be longer.