Eidel

Eidel was an officer in the SS-Leibstandarte and a member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle.

BiographyEdit

Eidel was a small, thin man who was more of an office worker than a soldier, but who enjoyed flaunting his authority over others. As a result, Colonel Herman Dietrich disliked him as well as the other SS members who he perceived as being black-uniformed thugs who thought they ran the world. It was Eidel who assigned Dietrich the all-important task of recovering the Ark of the Covenant in 1936, and also directed him to hire the French mercenary archaeologist René Emile Belloq.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

Eidel only appears in the novelization of Raiders of the Lost Ark by Campbell Black.

AppearancesEdit

• Raiders of the Lost Ark novel (First appearance)

SourcesEdit

• The Greatest Adventures of Indiana Jones (Possible indirect mention)

Notes and referencesEdit