Unidentified Grail Temple Nazi

The German Trooper in Temple was a Nazi soldier who served under the command of Colonel Ernst Vogel and Captain Helmut. In 1938 participated during the search of the Holy Grail.

Biography
In 1938, during the search of the Holy Grail, the trooper along his comrades accompanied Walter Donovan, Elsa Schneider and Captain Helmut in the Canyon of the Crescent Moon during Indiana Jones' attempt to rescue his father Henry Walton Jones, Senior and Marcus Brody from Colonel Vogel's Mark VII Tank. While Vogel and many of the soldiers perished during the chase, the trooper and his comrades, along Schneider, Helmut and Donovan, managed to make it into the Temple of the Sun.

Once there in the Temple of the Sun, when Indiana Jones and his party appeared on scene, the trooper and his comrades witnessed the cruel Donovan shooting Jones, Senior in order to persuade Indiana to recover the Grail. However, after Donovan's death due his poorly election, the trooper and his comrades witnessed the older Jones' recoverement after drinking from the true Grail. Subsequently, Schneider ended up losing her life when she tried to get out of the Temple with the Grail, causing its collapse, although the trooper and his comrades along Captain Helmut managed to escape along Jones' party and evade the same fate of Schneider.

Behind the scenes
The German Trooper in Temple was played by stuntman Derek Lyons in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Lyons had previously auditioned for the role of a Nazi trooper during the opening of the Ark of the Covenant scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but he decided to go on holiday instead and didn't played the part.

In Rob MacGregor's Last Crusade novelization, the German Trooper in Temple along his comrades and Helmut failed to escape from the Temple of the Sun in time and therefore they die falling to the chasm like Elsa Schneider.