Wilhelm Strasse
Wilhelm Strasse is a male video game character who features in Wolfenstein.
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Wilhelm Strasse
Holding the rank of SS-Oberführer, Wilhelm Strasse was the head of the SS Special Projects Division on March 1943, reporting directly to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Under his leadership, the division made advances into multiple areas, including developments such as the Kobra rocket plane, the Venom and Tesla guns, and chemical warheads for the V2 rocket. Deathshead's magnum opus, however, was Project Übersoldat; towering cyborg soldiers that were heavily armed and armored, towards which Strasse had directed his energy for nearly a decade. While Strasse would have preferred to focus on arming the Nazi war machine with this advanced technology, Himmler ordered Strasse to provide his creations to the SS Paranormal Division for Operation Resurrection. Deathshead held Operation Resurrection and the occult – along with Paranormal Division commanders Marianna Blavatsky and Helga von Bulow – in scarcely concealed contempt, but nevertheless obliged by putting several Übersoldaten and staff such as Professor Zemph at their disposal. Strasse declined Himmler's invitation to the resurrection ceremony in Paderborn, opting to remain at his Secret Weapons Facility (SWF) in Kugelstadt.
New Blood
General Wilhelm Strasse is a native of Germany, born in 1860. A scientific genius and devoted researcher, Strasse combines his intellectual acumen with an absolute lack of anything resembling traditional morality. He is a firm believer in German superiority and the imposition of its order upon the world by any means necessary. Little is known of his life prior to Hitler's rise to power. What is known is that Strasse caught the eye of someone powerful and was put in a position to harness his talents for the benefit of the Nazi war machine, especially after the invasion of Poland in 1939. Although his career was endangered on at least two separate occasions, primarily by Captain William J. Blazkowicz, when he infiltrated the X-Labs to dismantle Strasse's first super-soldier project[3][4] and crashed a zeppelin with Strasse onboard, the near-death experiences only provided him with a new outlook on life.
Nicknamed Totenkopf or Deathshead, Strasse committed himself to research with renewed fervor, focusing on Jewish artifacts such as Da'at Yichud. Utterly pragmatic, Strasse saw beyond the Nazis' primitive anti-Semitism, harnessing the incredible technology for the benefit of the regime and to the detriment of the world-- new technology which, by 1944, gave the Nazi war machine the edge it needed to win the war and force the world into submission, repulsing the Allied landings in Normandy, capturing or killing 156,000 soldiers while losing less than a hundred, and allowed Germany to defeat the Red Army at Stalingrad and break the RAF's back at Liverpool in 1945, as he neared his 85th birthday.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He came to be known by the name of Deathshead (German: Totenkopf).
Powers and abilities
Reichminister Strasse is a bona fide genius, a polymath who has single-handedly revolutionised many fields of science, including biology, chemistry, physics, computing, warfare, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and many more. His aptitude is married to complete amorality and zero concern for his fellow humans. In fact, Strasse views compassion as nothing more than a compromising human instinct that should be ignored whenever it gets in the way of scientific investigation and inquiry. The Reich's domination of the world and beyond is almost entirely thanks to his achievements.
Notes
- Wilhelm Strasse was created by Steve Goldberg where he featured in the Wolfenstein universe.
Appearances
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