Toht

Toht was a Nazi Gestapo agent charged with acquiring the headpiece of the Staff of Ra for Colonel Dietrich. He failed, although he did supply Dietrich with one half of the medallion's inscriptions when they became burned into his hand as a result of Toht trying, unsuccessfully, to pull the headpiece from the fire in Marion Ravenwood's Nepalese tavern. Toht was, eventually, killed when Renee Belloq opened the Ark of the Covenant, and the Gestapo agent was melted by the wrath of God.

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In the original script for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Toht was called Belzig.