“Subject 443: Antony Vacek. Follow me.”
He had been one of them once. The thought drifted through his mind, an artifact of a foreign identity. Indeed it was. Betrayal was something his minister father would have condemned. Would have…
But betrayal was the least of his horrid crimes.
More were to follow.
He should be freezing, so far up in the Alps in the depths of winter, yet he did not feel that either.
He felt nothing as he walked beside the black-uniformed officer.
“A committed party member. Youth committee chairman. Knight’s Cross commendation for bravery during the Siege of London. You’ve served us well, Antony. I’m proud to see you’ve distanced yourself from the undesirables of your childhood,” the officer said, coldly flipping through a file.
“The Übermensch program requires dedication to the Fatherland, steadfast support for the Führer, and willingness to carry the Reich Eagle onto the American shores. Imbued with the power of Die Glocke, you are chosen to lead our great crusade.”
Antony was all of those things.
His twin brother Jacob was not.
And as he walked down the corridor, Jacob wondered what went through Antony’s mind as Jacob pressed the pistol into his brother’s skull.
Traitorous bastard.
They’d never find Antony’s body.
The officer halted beside a steel door.
“Do you accept?”
Jacob paused, remembering,
He remembered the twisted body of his father, hung from his own church’s steeple because he preached about ending the war.
Jacob remembered his sister as they dragged her naked through the streets as a Communist because her husband had a copy of Dostoevsky.
And he remembered feeding off rats in the depths of the sewers as they burned his home.
Jacob remembered all these things as he faced the SS officer and answered in Antony’s voice…
“I do.”
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