<h4 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > There is a character dragon article in "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" who is a liar who has nothing. His clothes were stolen, his rank was stolen, even his name was fake, only the flesh and blood on his body were given by his parents, and no one knew where the dragon article came from, but he used all his war enthusiasm to keep the cannon fodder regiment alive. </h4>
Unlike the Dragon article, Willie Herold in "Captain Counterfeit" is a soldier, he has no rank, and his clothes are stolen, but the dragon article steals his identity and chooses to save people, and he chooses to kill, although the dragon article is fictional, but Willie Herold is real, he is known as "Emslan's executioner". Willie Herold, born in September 1925 in Lenzenau, Saxony, to a family of ordinary workers, the son of a roofer, grew up at the National Primary School in Chemnes, and after graduating, entered the technical college to learn to clean chimneys.
At this time, the German economy was in a slump, inflation was severe, and it was difficult to make any money by cleaning the chimneys, but after Hitler came to power, he promised that everyone would have bread and milk on the table, which made more people support Hitler, and the German economy did begin to recover. More and more people joined the Workers' Party, and even young men between the ages of 13 and 18 were recruited into the German Youth League, which was designed to train the German military, and everyone was subjected to rigorous training, and in 1936 Willie Herold was expelled from the Youth League for failing his training.
In the same year, he was conscripted into the Labor Bureau, where he was mainly cleaned, and with the outbreak of the Second World War, all German soldiers, even Willie Herold, became a soldier and was thrown into battle, and on September 30, 1943, at the age of 18, Willie became a paratrooper, and after training, he was transferred to the Italian battlefield. After the Allied landings in Anzio, the Germans built fortifications at the Cassino Monastery, and the Allies were trapped at the Anzio beachhead, a battle that lasted for a year until April 1945, when Soviet troops attacked the German mainland, when the Italian battlefield also began to become active.
The German army was completely defeated, Italy also launched a general uprising, Milan, Turin, Genoa were liberated, and the German army began to withdraw to Germany, but due to the confusion, Willie Herold lost contact with the troops, and he found an abandoned car near Grono and Bad Benzim. Herold originally just wanted to find something to eat, but there was also a set of Luftwaffe Captain's uniforms on the car, he put it on, he thought it was quite appropriate, but he did not expect that there were several lost soldiers gathered around, they saluted Herold, called him Captain, in this moment of defeat, Herold may also want to experience the feeling of being an officer, he thinks of himself as a captain, and claims that Hitler directly authorized.
He and a few soldiers arrived at the Emslander Rag camp, where he told the local officer that he had come to deal with the criminals, and that the German concentration camp had maintained humanitarianism in the early days of the war, but the ensuing failures drove the soldiers crazy and they began to mistreat the prisoners, and Herold disposed of more than 100 prisoners in just 8 days.
After the camp was raided, Herold and a few of his men murdered more than 10 more people on their return to Germany, and when he arrived in Germany, he heard the German surrender, he did not want to be convicted, took off his military uniform, went to Wilhelm Chauvin, and began to work on cleaning chimneys. But the German economy was still devastated, Herold was arrested for stealing bread, he was also recognized by the prisoners in the concentration camp, he had to be responsible for 125 lives, Herold pretended to be a captain at first just to save his life, but he was undoubtedly guilty.
References: Captain Fake, Emsland Executioner