The narrator of the story is Wilhelm. He and his younger brother went to the battlefield with great expectations from his father, and began his career as a lieutenant. At first, his younger brother's weakness and withdrawal made him humiliated, and he was single-mindedly prepared to fight for the country. But then his attitude changed drastically and he acted as a deserter, perhaps from the second he got into the tank. He knew that the war would not be won, and he had to block the lives of all the soldiers. Even if there was no backup supply, he had to hit the stone with eggs and bet on the enemy's artillery. The country's orders made him shaken. down.
The younger brother Friedhelm is the most sober of the five. He predicted from the beginning that war will not make a man grow, but will only bring out the worst in us. When he first joined the army, he was a helpless boy, passively performing tasks, reading and thinking quietly, and screaming in horror when he saw a little Jewish girl being shot. But later, like thousands of soldiers, he was shaped by Hitler into a bloodthirsty killing machine, and even shunned the wild beasts. He obeyed all the instructions of his superiors, and all he had to do was load, aim, shoot, and so on and so forth. Of course, when confronting Viktor, he shot his superior to save his friend, and his conscience was still alive. Finally, he chose to kill himself by drinking bullets to end his walking corpse. He was tired of the numbness and guilt derived from killing people without blinking an eye.
Then there's Charlotte, the nurse, who and Wilhelm love each other but don't have the courage to admit it. Because I didn't want my love to be a burden to you, Wilhelm kept silent and kept silent. On the battlefield, every day’s life is picked up. I don’t know when and where I will die. It may be the next battle, it may be the next second, so the promise is as heavy as a thousand pieces of gold to me. There will be a result, and that doesn't have to be a beginning.
Charlotte's good sister Greta is a person dedicated to love. She smuggled with German officers, just to help her Jewish boyfriend get proof. The photo cropped from the group photo of the five is an irreparable gap, implying that they never meet again. The German officer was an opportunist. He beat his own child with a ruthless punch, sent his lover to prison, and changed his life to serve the Soviets after he was defeated and surrendered. At this moment, only by imagining Greta dressed in red and humming "My Little Heart" can soothe her hurt feelings.
As for the Jewish Viktor, who escaped one catastrophe after another, and survived the catastrophe, there will be blessings in the future. Looking at the train bound for Auschwitz, I can't help but feel anguish and resentment. Why should the Jewish people suffer this kind of injustice? This is destined to be a one-way line with no return. It must be the people of the world who covet their wisdom and wealth to kill them all. The thought of this persecution always puzzles me.
Most people think that war consists of struggle, but it is not, it consists of waiting. Waiting for the next attack, waiting for the next meal, waiting for tomorrow. The beginning of the beginning we are all children, the last desire to become an angel...
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