Captain von Brauchitsch
Captain von Brauchitsch was a cold, calculating Gestapo officer stationed at the Schloss Adler. In fact, he was in charge of all the Gestapo activity in the region surrounding the castle. He often butted heads with his SS superior, Paul Kramer, who disliked him and attempted to discredit him at every turn, or at least the paranoid von Brauchitsch thought. He was angry when Kramer didn't tell him that the captured American general being held at the Schloss Adler supposedly knew information about the Allies' planned second front, and even angrier when the "army deserters" picked up by Colonel Weissner were in fact suspected British spies.
Drowning his sorrows at the Zum Wilden Hirsch, von Brauchitsch met barmaid Heidi Schmidt and her cousin Maria Schenck. Enamored with the two, he accepted Heidei's request to get Maria a job at the Schloss Adler as a serving girl, and even personally escorted the two women by cable car up to the castle and turned them over to Anne-Marie Schwartz, the head of Kramer's personal staff. When Heidi returned to the inn, von Brauchitsch took Maria out on a date, but during their evening noticed some discrepancies in her story of how she grew up in Dusseldorf. After escorting her back to her room, he left to find Kramer in the dining room and tell him he thought Maria was a spy.
Instead, he found not only Kramer and Reichsmarschal Rosmeyer and the captive American general, but also several strangers. He drew his Luger and held it on the group, demanding answers. One man, who identified himself as Captain Johann Schmidt, revealed that everyone present had just been implicated in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He claimed he had evidence to prove it. Von Brauchitsch believed Schmidt because of his stressful relationship with Kramer. He came near and demanded the evidence. Suddenly Maria entered. She was apprehended, and taken away by Anne-Marie Schwartz, only to overcome Schwartz, knock her out, and return with a gun which she pointed at von Brauchitsch. The Gestapo captain was forced to surrender, and he along with the other Nazis present was injected with nembutal which made him fall asleep.
