User blog:Xbsv/PE Proposal: Oberst Bauer

Oberst Bauer (his first name might be Karl?) is the main villain of Grey Wolves, book 4 of Henderson's Boys.

What has he done?
As a Gestapo Oberst, Bauer is in charge of interrogating prisoners in the Lorient area of France. In this capacity he commits various evil acts. Chief among them are:
 * Throttling an old woman in a fit of rage because she called him a fool with the flimsy reason that one of her customers is a murderer.
 * Waterboarding the same old woman in an icy bath before giving her a brutal beating to make her confess to the aforementioned "crime".
 * Shooting one communist prisoner for every train damaged in a resistance bombing.
 * Having the guard from the depot where the attack took place hanged as incompetent.
 * Torturing Marc Kilgour, the thirteen-year-old protagonist, with a device capable of removing his hand to make him confess to a minor crime before having him sent to a maximum security prison for murderers and sex offenders.
 * Even when he was about to die, he psychologically abused Charles Henderson by telling him that Marc had been impaled on a spike and tortured to death by him for no reason other than the sadistic kicks it gave him.

Freudian Excuse
None. Nothing is known about his past and even if we did know about some inciting misery, nothing justifies the sh*t Bauer does.

Heinous standard
While Bauer is a Nazi, raising the standard considerably, only two Nazis from the series get close to him. Out of them, one's worst action is killing a nun and the other's is ripping out Marc Kilgour's tooth to make him talk.

Final conclusion
I'd give him a yes.