Alfred was a former Waffen SS officer who saw the writing on the wall as Nazi Germany crumbled. Before the Soviets closed in on Berlin, he and a network of fellow officers managed to stash a significant fortune into secret accounts. The money's location was encoded into a painting called "The Twelve Knights Led by Brunhilda"—supposedly a Hitler original, though it was actually done by some anonymous painter. (Hitler's own art skills were limited to basic landscapes.) Alfred handed the painting off to Lt. Col. Spielberger with instructions to get it out of the country.
Spielberger made his way to Kiel's U-Boat pens and boarded U-1324, which was heading to Japanese-controlled Batavia in Indonesia with Lt. Col. Matsuda. The sub never made it—a U.S. Navy patrol sank it just before it could reach port. For decades, the wreck sat at the bottom of the ocean, forgotten.
That changed when a French telecom company stumbled across it while laying undersea cables. By then, Alfred was hiding out in South America, and he moved quickly to capitalize on the discovery. He had a neo-Nazi outfit called the Aryan Socialist Union asking for his financial backing, so he sent them to salvage the painting—but he also hired the Lagoon Company to do the same job. The kicker? He owned the Lagoon Company through Dutch, an African-American, and Alfred wanted to see if the A.S.U. could outperform what he considered a racially inferior operation.
The A.S.U. got the painting first, but their victory was short-lived. Revy and Dutch showed up during their drunken celebration and killed them all. When their leader Ratchman called Alfred to report success, he realized he'd been set up. Alfred got on the phone with Dutch afterward and admitted he had a grudging respect for him—race aside.
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