Shadow of the barbed wire
Prologue
When you get to Dachau, it does not matter which symbol you have on your chest – every single deported has to pass through the same free tour, made of twenty-five beatings.(1) There is not a reason, just like everything else in and outside the camp: with a little commitment, I would say it is like an overture, written to make them understand the whole symphony, in which the SS have fun with their rotten and broken musical instruments.
When a new cargo of human beings arrives at the camp, the pleasure of the first beating is always for the Officer Malfois (2): probably, to remember the orchestra who is the conductor.
But not today: there won't be beating of shouting, orders or sound of people walking on the snow.
Every single instrument has to be quiet, the conductor has closed the lectern: blood of his blood died – even the wood of the barracks and the train tracks have to take part in this silence.
An unusual last requiem.
(1)The rules of the camp really required this senseless punishment, to every new deported.
(2)I had to change the name "Malfoy" into "Malfois", for a matter of historical adequacy: this way, I can trace the origins of Malfoy family to France. Indeed, it has to be pronounced /Malfwa/.
The real Officer in Dachau in 1941 was Alexander Piorkowski, and I swear, I wish I could keep it but I need him to be Lucius for the story pourpose.