Cigarette soldier

A Nazi soldier was among the German forces stationed aboard the U-boat Wurrfler under Colonel Herman Dietrich, French archaeologist René Emile Belloq and Gestapo agent Major Arnold Ernst Toht in 1936 after the Nazis’ dig for the Ark of the Covenant at Tanis outside Cairo, Egypt. Following American archaeologist Indiana Jones and bar owner Marion Ravenwood’s interference and stealing of the Ark, the two were to be transported to England by pirates lead by Captain Simon Katanga aboard the Bantu Wind, but the Nazis apprehended them in the Aegean Sea and sent a boarding party aboard the ship, this soldier among them.

Apprehension of the Ark
In 1936, a Nazi soldier was among the German men stationed aboard the U-boat Wurrfler, serving under Colonel Herman Dietrich, French archaeologist René Emile Belloq and Gestapo agent Major Arnold Ernst Toht after the Nazis’ dig for the Ark of the Covenant at Tanis outside Cairo, Egypt. Following American archaeologist Indiana Jones and bar owner Marion Ravenwood’s interference and stealing of the Ark, the two were to be transported to England by pirates lead by Captain Simon Katanga aboard the Bantu Wind, but the Nazis apprehended them in the Aegean Sea and sent a boarding party aboard the ship, this soldier among them. The Nazis held Captain Katanga and his crew at gun-point as they searched both for the Ark and for Jones and Ravenwood. This soldier stood next to a funnel and smoked a cigarette whilst his comrades surrounded the pirates, not noticing Indiana Jones hiding in said funnel. After he returned to the main deck, Dietrich and Belloq demanded for Jones to be brought forward, and another man had the duty of telling them that they had found no trace of the American yet. After Katanga lied that he had murdered Jones, the cigarette soldier, after flicking his cigarette into the funnel, and the rest of the Germans, taking Marion and the Ark with them, accompanied their superiors to Geheimhaven.

Behind the scenes
The cigarette soldier was portrayed by an uncredited performer in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Appearances

 * Raiders of the Lost Ark