Untold Truth

By Aimee Fry

With this letter I hope you will one day forgive me my daughter.

After Hitler sealed the envelope with hot wax, he placed the letter into the timber desk drawer and poured himself a glass of rich red wine.

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In the distance, drenching rain poured down on a lone dark hooded person who stood waiting on top of the tallest tower in Germany.

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A sudden movement caught her attention. With the reflexes of a lightning strike, she was behind the person pressing a knife to their neck.

"Who are you and why do you work for Hitler?" Death Sender hissed quietly.

There were a few moments of silence then, came the reply.

"My name is Lorraine Nixie and I work as a guard."

"Why?"

"To kill."

"To kill innocents?"

"Yes."

And with that Lorraine Nixie was dead as she hit the ground.

With the disguise of Lorraine Nixie on, Death Sender passed all of the guards, until she came across a door with two tall uniformed men posted there.

"What business do you have with the boss?" the tallest guard asked.

"I have answers regarding the assassin," she said firmly.

The second guard stared intently at her for a moment and then nodded and opened the door.

"Go straight ahead, and then turn left."

"Fools," she whispered.

Death Sender knocked on the door.

"Come in," a gruff voice called.

Death Sender entered the office room.

"What do you want?" Hitler growled.

"I have a message."

"Go on."

"Prepare your one way ticket to hell, Hitler!"

"And I lost my most trusted and greatest friends in the war, Grandma and I feel so guilty and angry. I feel guilty because it means that I lived and they didn't and I feel angry because I lost my friends in a stupid war that we shouldn't have to have fought in."

"You know what I feel like don't you, Grandma?"

"Yes my dear grandson," was the raspy reply.

"Grandma, what is the matter?"

"Nothing my dear grandchild, just thinking of the pain you must be experiencing right now."

Reaching for a lace edged handkerchief in her apron pocket, she quickly wiped her eyes, so that her Grandson did not learn the truth about what her pain really meant.

"It'll be okay, Grandma, I know it will be."

"Yes I think it will be."

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And to this very day Grandma Amara Carleigh kept her secret from everybody she knew and loved. The very same people who thought that Grandma Amara was a sweet and innocent old lady. When Hitler was first declared dead and the war mostly stopped, the country's people only ever talked about who might have assassinated him but only one person knew the truth and everyone else could not prove anything at all because the day they found Hitler's body, they could not find one bit of evidence leading to who killed him. The one person, who knew the whole truth about what happened, died eventually with old age and the evidence along with her.

Aimee Fry Year 9