Cousin of a prominent member of the Freedom Party

The cousin of a prominent member of the Freedom Party prevailed upon his powerful kinsman to obtain for him through nepotism a plum assignment far from the front in the Second Great War, despite his being of the right age and of sufficient health to serve in the Confederate Army. That plum assignment wound up being guard duty at the death camp Camp Humble in Humble, Texas.

In 1944, Ferdinand Koenig ordered Humble's commandant, Jefferson Pinkard, to mobilize as many of his guards as possible for combat duty. Pinkard mobilized the cousin, and the cousin incredulously declared "Do you know who my cousin is?" Pinkard neither knew nor cared; while the guard may well have had a prominent cousin, he was not prominent enough to countermand a direct order from Koenig.