~The Nazi who cried Pity~

There were many nazis in World War II, but how many ask forgiveness? Not many, right? Well, there was one in the book, The Sunflower, that did. The author, Simon Wiesenthal, lived through WWII and was a Jewish prisoner, but while in an old school converted to Nazi hospital, he was taken to an injured SS trooper.  Here, the trooper told his story of Dnepropetrovsk, and asked for pity. Whether or not to forgive him was on the soldiers of Simon, and the man would never get another chance to attone for his sins.  He shot the people that jumped out of the windows of burning buildings, and he still remembers the facial expression. In my own opinion, even if it was a dead lie, I would have told him that I had forgiven him, merely so that he would die in peace, instead of being miserable for the last minutes of his life. But, that's just me.