Hugo Drax
Hugo Drax is a male literary character who features in James Bond.
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Biography
Graf Hugo von der Drache
On account of his mother being English, Drache was educated in England until the age of twelve. Afterwards he moved to Berlin and later Leipzig, where he continued and finished his education. After graduating, he joined the Nazi Party and entered the Wehrmacht as a soldier in the Panzer Brigade 150. At the outset of the Second World War he took part in the Blitzkrieg campaigns in Belgium and France, before becoming a Skorzeny Werwolf commando. After the Ardennes offensive he stayed behind Allied lines operating with his commando group.
On one fateful mission, his group planted a vehicle full of explosives at a farmhouse which was being used by the Allies as a rear headquarters. At the same time, Drache was on a separate mission to kill a British dispatch rider. Disguised as a British soldier, he was accidentally attacked by a German aircraft. The wounded Drache was found by allied troops who mistook him for a British serviceman and they brought him to the farmhouse. It is here that he was caught in the explosion and nearly killed. He was then rescued by the British and nursed back to health, claiming to be a "missing soldier" by the name of Hugo Drax. After being discharged from nursing care, he killed a Jewish businessman in London and escaped to Tangier with £15,000 he stole from him.
As revenge for Germany's defeat, he started the Moonraker missile project under the pretence that he would test fire the missile into the North Sea. Instead of doing so, however, he targeted his missile on London and armed it with an atomic bomb he had received through the Soviets and SMERSH. Drax uses his knowledge of the impending disaster to play the stock market, planning to make a huge profit from his own terrorist act. Bond, with the help of female Special Branch agent Gala Brand, sabotaged Drax's Moonraker missile launch and changed the coordinates of the target back to the North Sea. There the missile detonated, destroying the Soviet submarine carrying the escaping Drax killing him and foiling his plan to continue his Führer Adolf Hitler's legacy.
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Notes
- Hugo Drax was created by Ian Fleming where he featured in the setting of the James Bond universe.
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- Moonraker:
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