Friedrich Weber in 1944.
Friedrich Weber (1884 - 1944) was a German Nazi official in the Schutzstaffel who oversaw the transfer of looted art and artifacts into Germany from occupied territories during World War II.
Biography[]
In 1944, Colonel Weber was in charge of looting the antiquities from an old castle in France. The operation was disrupted by the Allied airplanes which were bombing the castle and the surrounding area. Despite that, Weber and his associate, Professor Jürgen Voller, managed to find their main objective, the Spear of Longinus. They also captured an American spy, the archaeologist Indiana Jones, who was trying to infiltrate the castle. However, wanting to bring the Spear to Adolf Hitler as soon as possible, they loaded all the loot onto a train and departed, leaving Jones behind to be hanged by the few remaining soldiers.
During the journey through the French Alps, Weber's soldiers brought him another spy to interrogate, Basil Shaw. However, the interrogation was interruped by Voller, who informed Weber that the Spear they found was fake, a modern reproduction of the original. Furious at the possibility of coming back to Hitler empty handed, Weber didn't pay attention when Voller told him that they had a much more powerful relic in their possession - the Dial of Destiny. Weber dismissed Voller's claims as rubbish.
In that moment an alarm was sounded in the remaining wagons. Indiana Jones had managed to escape death and boarded the train. As he was being chased through the train by Weber and his soldiers, Jones managed to free Shaw and they both climbed on top of the train, trying to escape. A group of soldiers attempted to kill them with an anti aircraft gun mounted on a freight wagon but an Allied plane attacked the train and killed all the soldiers manning the gun. Damaged, the gun started shooting without control, killing all the remaining soldiers on the train except Weber. Weber eventually reached Jones and attacked him, but Jones disarmed him with his bullwhip. The Nazi officer then attempted to kill Jones with the fake Spear but was shot by Shaw. Mortally wounded, Weber turned on to see Jones, who quickly kicked him off the train to his death.