Unnamed SS Officer

An anonymous S.S. officer implicated in the wartime processing and release of prisoners from Birkenau/Auschwitz. In the episode the figure surfaces only through family memory — accused of withholding possessions, most notably Josh Lyman's grandfather's wallet at liberation — and functions as a compact symbol of personal theft and institutional violence. The officer remains unnamed and off‑screen but exerts narrative force as a reference point in contemporary debates over reparations, moral responsibility, and the inherited wounds that shape political argument.