Scars are souvenirs you never lose

First of all, to everyone who responded to yesterday's post: thanks! I hope not to (a) disappoint (b) scare too many of you off. So far I've had requests for characters from the work of Caitlín R. Kiernan and Diana Wynne Jones, and I will happily honor those. (Kiernan and Jones are both writers about whom I can talk until your ears fall off. You have been warned.) But for my inaugural entry in this rather irregular series, I've skewed rather far into the realm of the morally ambiguous and fucked in the head—and thank you, fleurdelis28, kraada, and nineweaving for putting up with me when I was working out some of these ideas. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, I present Oberstabsarzt Werner Schramm from Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace,* late of the Waffen-SS and the Russian front. Also, Auschwitz.

(Cut for WTF?)
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