"People say the main casualty in war is the soldiers that fight and perish,
but no. The first and most monumental casualty in war is innocence."
•••
In which a captured solider is approached by a child in his times of grievous musings, and is frightfully enlightened to the horrors of which the press did not release, and to no manner or magnitude of battles could prepare him for.
•••
Short story, set in a Jewish Concentration Camp during the last hurrah of World War Two.
•••
Slightly based off HBO War's amazing Band Of Brothers. I got the inspiration out of Episode 9, Why We Fight. The protagonist is a mix of multiple soldiers from it, mainly Frank Perconte and Joseph Liebgott.
"They were the condemned.
They were the walking dead."
YOU ARE READING
The Condemned | ✔️
Short Story"Why are you crying?" "Because I never knew the world could stoop so low." The Allies campaign has reached Germany; a plethora of soldiers are making their way into the heart of the war, encountering enemies and cruelty they didn't thought existed...
