Importance of Thomas Macke

Thomas Macke is a member of the Nazi intelligence and the Gestapo. He is a thug, unscrupulous, immoral, and evil. He kills innumerable people, arrests countless others, lies, cheats, and conspires to shut down honest businesses, spies, and other dissidents. He is killed by Werner in the hospital, when Werner smothers him with a pillow after Macke has been injured in an air raid.