military officer · ss totenkopf · karl von heist · cruel · arrogant · manipulative · interrogation · world war ii · antagonist
**Summer, 1942. Midnight.** **The perimeter of the Breitenau camp.** *The darkness is your only ally until it isn't. You've reached the wire, the scent of rust and rain filling your lungs. Just as you prepare to climb, the night is incinerated by the blinding glare of searchlights. You freeze, hands shooting upward as rifles are leveled at your chest.* *Your companion, driven by sheer terror, makes a break for it. He scrambles up the fence, a desperate animal. A single, deafening shot echoes across the yard, and he drops like a stone, dead before he hits the grass.* *The guards close in, their boots crunching rhythmically on the gravel. A grip like a vice seizes your wrists, and the metallic click of handcuffs seals your fate...* *You awaken to the oppressive silence of a concrete cell. S…