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"What shall we call him?" His wife asked. "How about Nikolaus? It means 'Victory of the People'" "Nikolaus Stern, I like it." And so it was, however, as it would turn out, Thaddeus and his son would never get along, they were just two different people.

And now, the next part.

Nikolaus Stern was born in a rural country house in Munich, Germany in 1920 to war hero Thaddeus Stern and war nurse Ada-Engel Stern. Unlike his father, Nikolaus was an incredibly extroverted child; he always had a bright personality and a positive outlook. He loved sports; his favorite in general was association football, in which he was the best player on his school team. This won him many friends throughout the entire school. To Nikolaus, his life seemed perfect, however, this was not to last.

In 1925, five years after Nikolaus was born, Thaddeus had picked up a book to read out of pure curiosity, the book was simply titled "My Struggle". What caught Thaddeus's eye was the author of the book: A revolutionary who had previously tried to overthrow Germany, but failed in the process and ended up in prison. Thaddeus grew obsessed with the book; he withdrew himself from his family and his friends (if he had any). Finally in 1933, his wife had a talk with him.

"I'm worried about you, Thaddeus." His wife said one day "You've grown increasingly isolated."

"You really should stop being so paranoid," Thaddeus said "There's nothing wrong with me, I'm doing absolutely fine."

"Yeah." His wife said "You're doing so fine that you never show up to your own son's football games, you're doing so fine that you never leave the house and leave me to raise our child."

"You're doing so fine." She said louder "That you spend all day in your room hugging that god-damned book and not spending any time with your own family at all!"

"Listen, Ada!" he shouted "You may think this book is nothing, but to me it's the key to resurrecting Germany to its former glory, maybe even more, and don't you worry about Nikolaus, I enrolled him and I in a special party based on this genius's beliefs. That will set him straight." (A/N: I don't know if it really works that way, so if it doesn't, just play along with it.)

"You didn't!" she said angrily

"That's right." He proclaimed "As of now, me and Nikolaus are part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party."

And so it was, Thaddeus rose among the ranks to become one of the top members of a division of the party known as the SS, it was there he met his old friend Heinrich, who had rose to become the second most powerful man in Germany, second only to the revolutionary who had wrote that book and was now the Chancellor of Germany.

As for Nikolaus, he was part of a special division of the party for those under 18 years of age. When he chancellor was giving a speech to his fellow members, he was shocked to what he was hearing, this party was nothing like his father said; it was based on hatred and violence. After the first day, he had a talk with his father.

"I don't want to hear it, Nikolaus!" Thaddeus shouted "You're not abandoning what will be the future of our Motherland."

"Our future, as you call it, is based on pure hatred!" Nikolaus protested "Is this really what you want Germany to become?"

"What you think is hatred is what I think is power, and power is the most important thing if you want to succeed. THE most important thing!"

"What about my football, isn't that important?" Nikolaus said "What about school? What about my friends!"

"That's another thing I don't like. Those good for nothing friends of yours"

"What!"

"From now on, you're not allowed to have any friends unless they are Aryan. And if I catch you with anyone else, I'll only make this worse as it needs to be. Do I make myself clear?"

"What about you?" Nikolaus shouted "You're not Aryan!"

"Well, neither is our Chancellor!" He shouted back as he walked away.

After that, Nikolaus grew extremely distant, he quit the soccer team, he lost all of his friends, and he no longer had his cheerful personality. It also didn't help that his mother abandoned him, possibly growing tired of her husband's fascist beliefs. In 1939, he was drafted into the German Army, much to his chagrin, mainly because his father was still part of the SS. It was there that he found out that his father's horrific vision was coming true: Half of Europe had already fallen to German rule. What's worse was that his father and his friend Heinrich had been commissioning camps based on the extermination of ethnic and social groups that the Chancellor found unfit and unworthy. Nikolaus couldn't take it any more; he knew what had to be done.

On June 6th, 1944, Allied troops had landed on the beaches of Normandy attempting to free Europe. Nikolaus knew this was his chance. He went up and killed his entire platoon and commanding officer; he then proceeded to clear out a path for the Allies by killing every German soldier he could find. This went on for almost a year: as the Allies advanced, Nikolaus killed more of his own men. Finally on May 7th, 1945, Germany had surrendered. The Chancellor and Heinrich had both committed suicide prior to the surrender. However, Thaddeus chose to accept defeat, only because he considered suicide an act of cowardice.

After the war, and a dishonorable charge, Nikolaus then moved to Berlin where he settled in with a young woman, who had been his long time pen pal. In 1960, they were married and had a child, a young boy they named Johannes.

As Nikolaus's wife rocked their child to sleep she asked Nikolaus. "Aren't you worried?"

"About my father?" Nikolaus said "Not at all, no matter what it takes, I'll make sure he never ruins my son's life just as he did with mine."

He then looked at his wife and child "Well, almost."