Pity

     "He sought my pity, but had he any right to pity? Did a man of his kind deserve anybody's pity?"
      I don't believe that this man deserves pity because he is a murderer. The book says "When we were told that everything was ready, we went back a few yards, and then received the command to remove safety pins from hand grenades and throw them through the windows of the house." Although he wasn't the one who gave the command to throw hand grenades into the house full of Jews, he is just as guilty because he followed the order, killing innocent people. The book also says "'Look,' he said, 'those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as I do-though they were not as guilty as I am.'" The dying SS man claims that the Jews he killed died quickly, but did he really know that? How could he? He didn't have any right to say that they did not suffer, especially when he doesn't know whether or not that was true. Just because he is dying and wants to confess everything he's done, doesn't mean that he deserves forgiveness; he made the choice to murder those innocent people.