Herbert Holger: German scientist during the 1930s and 1940s who was instrumental in the Nazi super human program under Colonel Hans Arnulf. Dr. Holger was responsible for development of Axel, Rolf, Kristel and Gerd as super soldiers for the Third Reich.
Home, the: A U.S. government retirement/assisted living home for spies. Rolf Smith resides there.
Ian F. Johnson: Patent attorney turned spy for the OSS during the Second World War. President Truman appointed him as director of the CSOS following the war.
Julian B. Hayes: Ivy League Professor prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Professor Hayes was asked personally by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to join the science division of the OSS. He was referred to by his colleagues in the OSS as Professor Hayes or simply the Professor and it became a sort of codename. He actively served in the CSOS following the war in an attempt to help acclimate Axel and Rolf to their new environment. He retired from the service in the 1950s and took a position on the faculty at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., but remained an active, high level consultant with the CSOS for many years.
Magda Antek: Wife of Polish school teacher who hid Noah and Brygida Dubenski and several other Jews during the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. Wife of Dobry Antek.
Marek: Bureaucrat in the Czechoslovakian government who was a contact for Alena.
Martha Philips: Secretary for Director Ian Johnson of the CSOS.
Night Specter: An assassin who is rumored to be a former German sniper, and is credited with the assassinations of numerous people, primarily Soviet officers.
Noah Dubenski: Polish Jew. Husband of Brygida. Killed by the Nazis in 1939.
OSS: Office of Strategic Services. Primary intelligence office for the United States during the Second World war.
PFC: Rank in the United States Marine Corps which stands for Private First Class. PFCs hold the pay grade of Enlisted 2 (E2).
Prime, the: One term used to describe genetically enhanced super humans.
Polkovnik: Soviet military rank equivalent with a colonel in the West.
Red Patriots: A Soviet special forces unit led by the Valkyrie.
Rolf Smith: Codenamed Krieg by the American CSOS and part of the U.S. Government’s covert action team codenamed Blitzkrieg with his twin brother Axel Smith a/k/a blitz, agent Thomas Flemming a/k/a Canary and Agent Dawn Williams a/k/a Psion. Rolf is the son of Brygida Dubenski and was genetically engineered by Nazi scientists in the early 1940s to have super strength.
Sava Ruslan: Soviet scientist and agent. Defected to the United States in 1965 and joined CSOS.
SS: Nazi paramilitary order from 1923 until the end of the Second World War. The SS was found responsible for the majority of Nazi Germany’s war crimes and was the responsible unit for carrying out Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution,” more commonly known today as the Holocaust.
Steven Quakenboss: Head of the CSOS Scientific/Technology Development Division.
Thomas J. Flemming: A highly decorated OSS agent during the Second World War, Agent Flemming—codename Canary—joined the CSOS soon after the war. He is the lead agent for the covert action team codenamed Team Blitzkrieg, which includes Agent Axel Smith a/k/a Blitz, Agent Rolf Smith a/k/a Krieg and Agent Dawn Williams a/k/a Psion.
USCGC: United States Coast Guard Cutter. Ship in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Utkin, Polkovnik: A Soviet regiment commander in the 50th Rifle Division and the Valkyrie’s commanding officer.
Valkyrie, the: The name the Nazis and later the Soviets gave to an almost spectral female assassin that targeted high-ranking Nazis during the Second World War. She was considered a war hero by the Soviet Red Army.
Volkov, Sergeant: Second in command under the Valkyrie of the Soviet special forces unit known as the Red Patriots.
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