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- "No trace yet, sir!"
- ―The German soldier on Indiana Jones[src]
A Nazi soldier was among the Wurrfler boarding party under Colonel Herman Dietrich which briefly seized the Bantu Wind in 1936 during their search for the Ark of the Covenant.
Biography
In 1936, a Nazi soldier served under Colonel Herman Dietrich, French archaeologist René Emile Belloq and Major Arnold Ernst Toht during the search for the Ark of the Covenant. He was among the soldiers who crewed aboard the Wurrfler and detained the Bantu Wind, a smuggling ship carring the Ark, in the Aegean Sea.[1]
The Nazis held Captain Simon Katanga and his crew at gun-point as they searched both for the Ark and for American archaeologist Indiana Jones, a threat to Hitler's plans who had aptured the artifact our fromunder them at Tanis. When Dietrich angrily demanded for Jones, the soldier told him they had found no trace yet. Katanga would later lie that he had killed Jones. The soldier later accompanied his fellow Nazis to Geheimhaven.[1]
Behind the scenes
The Nazi soldier was portrayed uncredited by stuntman Nick Gillard in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The character's only line, "Not a trace yet, sir!" was originally meant for the Sergeant who captured Marion Ravenwood in the final film.