Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself.

In my opinion, the dying Nazi had no right to pity himself. In the story Wisenthal says, "I saw that he was torturing himself. He was determined to gloss over nothing." The soldier should have tortured himself. He killed so many innocent people and had absolutely no reason to other than the fact that someone told him to. Yes, it's hard to say no to your general when you're already mixed up in "Hitler's Youth", but he should've thought about that before going into the army. Just because he "came clean" and told someone how bad he felt doesn't make what he did right. It makes him honest, but still he deserves no pity.  The dying SS man says, "those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as I do---though they were not as guilty as I am." That is a selfish thing to say in my eyes because the Nazi soldier is suffering by choice because he got involved in the army. He knew before that there would be a chance of dying or getting hurt. INNOCENT Jews were tortured and killed with no choice or warning. The soldier knew what he was getting into and he made his choices; the Jews he killed didn't have the same benefits. A murderer like that doesn't deserve pity.