"Es lebe die Freiheit!"- German Resistance Champions

[Alibear]

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[FenrisUlf]

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This is a great idea, Hermit!

 

A related idea I had was of a German-American super who belonged to the Bund in his Secret ID. Then when he learns their plans for sabotage and whatnot (even though IRL the Bund never did anything other than cheer on Nazi Germany, even when it became obvious what was really going on) he takes on his heroic identity of the Teutonic Knight, and stops them.

 

Though there could be a Teutonic Knight in Germany proper. I was figuring on an early powered-armor type, though a 'trained metahuman' would work too (an elite trooper of Prussian descent, trained for the Brandenburger special forces unit?). Originally loyal, he then discovers the truth behind the death camps and decides that he must bring Hitler and his evil cronies down before they destroy Germany with their excesses!

 

And a German WW2 anti-Nazi resistance movement wouldn't seem complete to me without a flying speedster who's the son or daughter of Hans von Hammer, Germany's greatest WW1 flying ace.

 

And how about a cyborg prototype of Der Harthezegig Soldaten from the DEMON sourcebook?

 

And maybe there's even a werewolf among the Resistance, created originally to serve as part of Operation Werewolf (what else?), who escaped to fight the forces of tyranny. The process to cerate this uber-warg was fortunately lost, until sometime in the early 21st century Herr Doktor Pandemonium rediscovers it...

 

And on a story-telling note, if I did something like this myself I'd probably want to end it as a tragedy -- the heroes may shorten the existence of the Third Reich, but either they all die in the process or they are utterly forgotten afterwards (thus neatly explaining why no one else ever hears about them).

 

Though come to think of it, an alternate WW2 campaign in which your German anti-Nazi resistance actually pulls it off, nails Hitler, and ends the war might make for a great alternate earth setting!

[Hermit]

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Though come to think of it, an alternate WW2 campaign in which your German anti-Nazi resistance actually pulls it off, nails Hitler, and ends the war might make for a great alternate earth setting!

 

Interesting. Heck, You could start a whole thread from there "What if the Anti-Nazi resistance actually won in your champions campaign?"

[Black Ops]

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I spend some time thinking further about this.

I came up with a problem.

Germany has the Draft (which Legatus elegantly sidesteped. Bravo !).

This means that potential german resistance Supers have to be female, elderly or very young.

Youth also has a little problem, namley the little Issue that nearly every german Child/Youth was in the Hitleryouth or Bund deutsche Maedel (if female) (Currently I am investigating if that was actually required or voluntarily.)

[Trebuchet]

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I spend some time thinking further about this.

I came up with a problem.

Germany has the Draft (which Legatus elegantly sidesteped. Bravo !).

This means that potential german resistance Supers have to be female, elderly or very young.

Youth also has a little problem, namley the little Issue that nearly every german Child/Youth was in the Hitleryouth or Bund deutsche Maedel (if female) (Currently I am investigating if that was actually required or voluntarily.)

Hitler Youth was mandatory for boys. Membership in Bund Duetsche Madel was not required for young women (ages 10-18) prior to 1939, but it was certainly the norm. Anyone not in it would have attracted attention - not a good idea in Nazi Germany.

 

There were other ways to be exempt from the draft, including being in certain militarily critical industries.

[Black Ops]

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Ladys and Gentleman here is one of the most feared men in Nazi Germany

(feared by the Nazis):

 

the Proletarian

 

History:

Johannes „Hans“ Klotz parents were Kommunists of the first Hour. They marched with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. They educated their son to be a firm believer of the Peoples Cause

but they died relative early.

Several Party Members took over little Hans education and finally the boy was send to Russia.

The bright young man was earmarked early for a potential Agent and the required steps in his education were taken by the appropiate Bureaus.

 

In 1927 Hans was reinserted into Germany, then a asisstant of the original Proletariat. He established a Identity as a slightly crippeled Worker for the german financial Office and started spying on the rich.

The original (german) Proletarian worked hard to redistribute wealth towards the poor and fight for the working man. In 1936 he left for Spain to fight for the cause. He never returned.

In 1937 Hans took over his mantle on orders of the party.

In 1939 when the Party suddenly allied with the Fascists Hans was surprised (as every german party member) and seeing how Propaganda suddenly started towards portraying the fascists different he quickly became disillousioned.

As the War started to drag on Hans began his own War against the Nazis.

He started with suplying Information to allied Forces, bribing and blackmailing Nazis, rescuing Jews, fellow Party-Members and even Socialists and Catholics.

In 1942 he had his own little Underground – Railway toward Swizerland and Turkey and was considered a primary source on german Industrial Secrets by russian and british Secrets Agencys.

Not to mention the amount of Industrial Sabotage he personally wought.....

 

He was last seen in 1945.

 

Rumor has it he died in 1945 during the final siege of Berlin.

 

Powers:

The Proletarian is a Micro-Brick with strong Disguise Skills. He carries a big Hammer that aids his already powerful blows. His strength and speed increase when he considers himself „the Proletarian“ (sort of selfhypnosis).

His Costume is lightly armored and he has been subject to so many dreadful rumors that he is particulary scary to the average german.

 

Addendum: I had in my World several Proletarians, there were at least four german,two cubans and at least a dozend russians bearing that name.

[FenrisUlf]

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Hitler Youth was mandatory for boys. Membership in Bund Duetsche Madel was not required for young women (ages 10-18) prior to 1939, but it was certainly the norm. Anyone not in it would have attracted attention - not a good idea in Nazi Germany.

 

There were other ways to be exempt from the draft, including being in certain militarily critical industries.

 

If I remember right, wasn't the major motivation behind Nazi Germany's forming the Todt Organization to bring in free labor from Occupied Europe to cover for all the working-age men on the front lines?

[Black Ops]

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Correct.

There was also something called Reichsarbeitsdienst that every male was required to get into.

It was for six months before(!!) military (2 years).

Thes Guys were also organized in the Organisation Todt.

(No Todt is only a family name. Nothing to do with death at all. )

[Trebuchet]

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If I remember right' date=' wasn't the major motivation behind Nazi Germany's forming the Todt Organization to bring in free labor from Occupied Europe to cover for all the working-age men on the front lines?[/quote']If you mean "free" as in "conscripted" or "slave" labor you're dead on. Even workers from ostensibly allied friendly nations like Vichy France and Italy were treated badly by the German industrial machine. Those from smaller or conquered countries such as Poland suffered under conditions approaching the concentration camps.

[Wanderer]

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And Austria was forcibly annexed by Nazi Germany' date=' so there could be lots of resentment toward them by Austrian supers.[/quote']

 

No, the union between Austria and Germany proper was actually very popular as the fulfilling of German unification among the populaces of both countries well before Hitler ever came to power, and was actually sought by democratic Austria just after WWI, but was forcibly stopped by the Entente powers and by the Austrian fascist dictator, a puppet of Mussolini, that did take over later and the Nazis ousted. The Anschluss was actually the typical case of an evil movement doing the good and right thing for once with the wrong motivations.

 

So the attutitude of Austrian Anti-Nazi supers ought to be pretty much the same of German Anti-Nazi ones: sadness and outrage at German patriotism being so horribly abused and betrayed by Hitler, and dedication to free the Fatherland and redeem her honor by all means necessary.

 

Great campaign idea, by the way. Works best if the German Resistance is eventually allowed to overthrow the Nazis and redeem Germany.

[Cygnia]

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If this got expanded to characters from other European countries under Nazi occupation, I'd be tempted to base a hero off this fella...

 

Voytek the Soldier Bear

[FenrisUlf]

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If this got expanded to characters from other European countries under Nazi occupation, I'd be tempted to base a hero off this fella...

 

Voytek the Soldier Bear

 

Wow, that is just...

 

I loved this bit:

 

The idea of a f***ing alcoholic Nazi-fighting bear is so awesome that you’d think it was something out of a bizarre cartoon or a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie. It’s the sort of sh*t that, even with all of the historical evidence, seems too totally awesome to be true. The bear was a hero of World War II, and there are statues of him and plaques memorializing his brave service in Poland, Edinburgh, the Imperial War Museum in London, and the Canadian War Museum. Unbelieveable.

 

And yes, this character needs a writeup ASAP. Hmm, maybe there was Moreau working for good and not evil during WW2?

[Black Ops]

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Wow, that is just...

 

I loved this bit:

 

 

 

And yes, this character needs a writeup ASAP. Hmm, maybe there was Moreau working for good and not evil during WW2?

 

Done.

You do the backround.......

[bubba smith]

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maybe this is an aprpopriate disad for them

suspected nazi spy

[Black Ops]

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maybe this is an aprpopriate disad for them

suspected nazi spy

 

 

Sorry ?

[bubba smith]

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THE PC'S would suspect the german supers OF PRETENDING to aid the allies while really working for hitler

[Black Ops]

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Likely to be very true.

[Legatus]

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Phantom

 

Erika Baumann, born January 10th 1912 to unknown parents, was raised in an orphanage by catholic nuns. At her 18th birthday a lawyer went to see her to tell her that a fund was existing to pay for her expenses. Erika was rich. But she didn't know why. The lawyer couldn't or wouldn't tell her. She moved to Berlin and studied dance and acting. She soon became a ballerina. She had a natural grace in her movements that took her quickly through her dancing classes. She even appeared in some movies from the Babelsberg film studios. Her beauty was attracting men in the dozens, but she never gave them a chance. Erika was in love with Rebekka Lindenstein, the daughter of a very rich jewish family. Berlin was place full bars and entertainment for homosexuals and the two women just dove into the scene. But after 1933 their relationship began to be difficult. Though it was not illegal to be a lesbian (it was illegal to be gay, §175), it was considered to be against the ideology of the NSDAP, because these women didn't participate in the creation of the "Herrenrasse".

Erika and Rebekka started dating men to cover their love. In 1936 Erika married Hugo Sander, a friend of her's, who was gay, to save him from being arrested and possibly deported. In these years Erika had to quit dancing, because of long injuries. She started giving ballet classes of her own and was still acting.

In 1939 Rebekka fled into hiding from the Nazis. Shortly after that, Erika was arrested and brought to the headquarters of the Gestapo, where Josef Teplitz (aka "Inquisitor"), a mind-reading Nazi officer, questioned her. Luckily Erika didn't know anything about Rebekka's plans, but the Gestapo found out the truth about Hugo. Hugo was arrested and died two weeks later in prison. Officially he had committed suicide.

These events deeply traumatized Erika. Along with the mind-reading by the Inquisitor it triggered a latent mutant ability in her. She was able to teleport herself to other places. At first this frightened Erika, but she has since come to the conclusion to use her powers for good.

Erika is supporting the resistance against the Nazis. In recent months Erika started a love affair with Marianne Brückner, the wife of a high-ranking Nazi officer, who will likely spy on her husband and give secret informations to Erika.

 

Powers: Imagine Hiro Nakamura from Heroes in the beautiful body of a German ballerina. She has not developed her full potential yet, but when she has, she'll probably be able to topple Hitler's regime.

 

inspired by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9e_%26_Jaguar

[Nerdnumber1]

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Phantom

 

Erika Baumann, born January 10th 1912 to unknown parents, was raised in an orphanage by catholic nuns. At her 18th birthday a lawyer went to see her to tell her that a fund was existing to pay for her expenses. Erika was rich. But she didn't know why. The lawyer couldn't or wouldn't tell her. She moved to Berlin and studied dance and acting. She soon became a ballerina. She had a natural grace in her movements that took her quickly through her dancing classes. She even appeared in some movies from the Babelsberg film studios. Her beauty was attracting men in the dozens, but she never gave them a chance. Erika was in love with Rebekka Lindenstein, the daughter of a very rich jewish family. Berlin was place full bars and entertainment for homosexuals and the two women just dove into the scene. But after 1933 their relationship began to be difficult. Though it was not illegal to be a lesbian (it was illegal to be gay, §175), it was considered to be against the ideology of the NSDAP, because these women didn't participate in the creation of the "Herrenrasse".

Erika and Rebekka started dating men to cover their love. In 1936 Erika married Hugo Sander, a friend of her's, who was gay, to save him from being arrested and possibly deported. In these years Erika had to quit dancing, because of long injuries. She started giving ballet classes of her own and was still acting.

In 1939 Rebekka fled into hiding from the Nazis. Shortly after that, Erika was arrested and brought to the headquarters of the Gestapo, where Josef Teplitz (aka "Inquisitor"), a mind-reading Nazi officer, questioned her. Luckily Erika didn't know anything about Rebekka's plans, but the Gestapo found out the truth about Hugo. Hugo was arrested and died two weeks later in prison. Officially he had committed suicide.

These events deeply traumatized Erika. Along with the mind-reading by the Inquisitor it triggered a latent mutant ability in her. She was able to teleport herself to other places. At first this frightened Erika, but she has since come to the conclusion to use her powers for good.

Erika is supporting the resistance against the Nazis. In recent months Erika started a love affair with Marianne Brückner, the wife of a high-ranking Nazi officer, who will likely spy on her husband and give secret informations to Erika.

 

Powers: Imagine Hiro Nakamura from Heroes in the beautiful body of a German ballerina. She has not developed her full potential yet, but when she has, she'll probably be able to topple Hitler's regime.

 

So the part where she learns time travel and sets up a fund for her past self comes after Hitler goes by-by. I assume that's what happens, it seems pretty obvious.

[Legatus]

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I'd like to keep that a mystery that unravels in course of the campaign.

Nice thought though, hadn't that in mind when I wrote up the character. So much for being pretty obvious.

[Nerdnumber1]

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I'd like to keep that a mystery that unravels in course of the campaign.

Nice thought though, hadn't that in mind when I wrote up the character. So much for being pretty obvious.

 

A mysterious benefactor helps a character that later displays teleportation powers that are compared tp Hiro Nakamura's, only not quite developed (ie. only teleportation so far): the whole thing points to subtle clue about her future progress. Mysterious benefactor+undeveloped teleport/time travel power=monkying around in the past (actually, any mention of Hiro kind of points to it).

[Black Ops]

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Alone getting the Idea.

I liked that Film.

[Querysphinx]

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I played a speedster Thunder whose grandmother Donder (also a speedster) was a German Jewish resistance fighter during WWII. Donder was eventually knocked out of the fight when a Nazi ubermench named Messer took her legs off.

 

Thunder's crowning adventure was a time travel trip during which she tangoed with Messer one on one (after learning he was her grandfather by way of rape) and ended up beating him within an inch of his life. "I've read the histories Messer, and today is the day you disappear, never to be heard from again."