If this candidate sounds slightly familiar, that's because he was proposed recently but the proposal was deleted for violating the 7-day rule. Having watched the work myself on YouTube, and since I did not release another proposal three days ago, I've decided to attempt it myself.
What's The Work?[]
Imagine This is a 2008 stage play following the Warshowskys, a family of Polish Jews stuck in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, as the family patriarch Daniel stages a production of the fictional play Masada about the real-life Jewish uprising in the hope of inspiring optimism amongst the Jews of Warsaw (why he thinks a story that ends with a mass suicide would achieve this is anyone's guess). But during the play, they make a discovery about the Nazis intentions and are forced to make the ultimate decision: are they willing to put the lives of everyone else in the ghetto before their own survival? Oh, and it's a musical. Because apparently what the world really needed was a Holocaust musical.
Who is he? What has he done?[]
Somewhat disappointingly, though maybe unsurprisingly, he never does get his own song.
Captain Blick is the commander of the Nazis in the play. He's first introduced interrupting a rehearsal of Masada to search for a resistance fighter, who was seen running into the theatre to escape the Nazis. Blick starts out by arresting a random actor named Jacob who he suspects, then snaps Daniel's father's cane just to be a dick. He also starts trying to extort money from Daniel to investigate the "mysterious" disappearance of his wife, who is one of several Jews in the ghetto who have recently gone missing (one guess where they all went); since he's already extorted all the family's money, he settles for looting various family heirlooms and snatching the chorus girl Lola's fur coat, having her beaten when she won't hand it over. He then gets preoccupied leering at Daniel's daughter Rebecca, which gives Jacob an opportunity to pick up the resistance fighter's gun and try to shoot him. But he fails, and Blick has him dragged off to be tortured and executed, promising Daniel that he'll put a bullet in him himself if he finds out he was involved in anything. On the way out he notices a new cast member, Adam, and "tests" him by forcing him to sing "Deutschland Uber Alles" at gunpoint before advising Daniel to cast him to replace Jacob, blissfully unaware that Adam is the real resistance fighter.
Later, during the interval of Masada, Blick comes on stage to give the people of the ghetto some good news: tomorrow, they will be free to leave the ghetto! A new life awaits them in a beautiful new camp in the east, and anyone who boards the trains out of there will also be allowed a kilo of bread and jam, which are luxuries to the half-starved people living in the ghetto. The Warshowskys are thrilled, but Adam less so, as, being in the resistance, he knows the truth. He tells them that the camp Blick is sending them to is actually Treblinka, the second-deadliest extermination camp in all of Europe, and everyone who arrives will immediately be killed.
While the cast are still processing (read: trying to ignore) this revelation, Blick shows up and immediately starts battering Daniel. Apparently that fur coat was very important to Lola, who told Blick about Adam so he would give it back. After yelling for a bit, Blick starts to drag Rebecca off promising to take "special care" of her and orders Lola to hand her coat over again; when she says no, Blick shoots her in the back and prepares to execute everyone else, before Adam reveals that he already told them about Treblinka. Blick realizes that shooting everyone will arouse the audience's suspicion, so instead he offers them a deal: they will all, Adam included, receive free passage to Zurich, just as long as they finish the play without warning anyone about Treblinka, allowing the deportations to proceed without a hitch.
Daniel reluctantly agrees to Blick's terms, but he comes up with a plan, promising to enact it only if every cast member stands up to take a bow at the end of the performance. After a lot of soul-searching, everyone goes along, and Daniel reveals his plan: the message "DO NOT GET ON THE TRAINS" written on the stage backdrop. Blick is unsurprisingly furious and immediately storms the theatre with his men and rounds up all the Warshowskys. Everyone, including Daniel's ten-year-old son Leon, is taken outside and shot, except for Adam, who manages to hide, and Rebecca, who Blick decides to keep for himself. Rebecca fights back so Blick decides to just shoot her, but before he can pull the trigger he gets tackled by Adam and the two of them fight until Rebecca manages to grab Blick's gun and shoots the Nazi dead.
Heinous Standard[]
No-one in the "real world" is worse than Blick. The only real "villain" other than him is Lola, who betrays the rest of the cast to Blick to get her coat back, and a few people who initially argue against warning everyone about Treblinka at the cost of their own survival, but eventually come around. The main antagonist of Masada, Rufus, also plans to exterminate the Jews, but of course Masada is an in-universe work of fiction so it's a different standard to the "real world" that Blick lives in.
Mitigating Factors[]
Blick occasionally plays at being affable, particularly in his first scene where he agrees to give Rebecca back some silver candlesticks he was about to requisition that belonged to her "missing" (read: dead) mother, but this particular scene is played as nothing more than an early indicator of his desire for her to be "friendly" with him, and his affability in general is shown to be a front whenever someone defies him, at which point he always defaults to screaming at and beating and/or shooting them. He also agrees to let all the main characters live in return for staying silent about Treblinka when he could have just shot them, but it's pretty clear he only does so because he wants to make sure no-one suspects anything is amiss and the deportation tomorrow goes off without a hitch. Finally, it's hinted in his first scene that he sees himself as doing everything for the good of the German people since he makes a remark about "the German people going hungry" before the Nazis took over, but I don't think it's mitigating since it's in the context of a barely-veiled antisemitic remark about Jewish bankers plotting against Germany while he's in the middle of abusing the Warshowskys.