**Name:** William Hans Gröber vonKöln **Gender:** Male **Nationality:** German **Age:** 37 **Physical Appearance:** A tall broad figure, he leans forward with a startling ferocity. His steep angular forehead and sharp jutting nose make him look more like some animal than a man. Something made only more apparent by his shaved hair. **Rank:** Scharführer **Weapon and Ammunition:** Luger P08 and MP41 **Brief Background:** William was born in the German city of Cologne in April of 1904 to the daughter of a factory manager and a locally respected doctor. With his two brothers and his sister he lived plush and fat in their serene townhouse in southern Cologne. As a youth, William would often run through the neighborhood streets, following the police officers about their duties. This later extended to following and watching soldiers by the outbreak of the First World War. The sight and manner of the army of the German Empire inspired young William, who would often spend much of his days playing army with his siblings. Things soured at the end of the First World War however. With the surrender of Germany to the allied forced and the dissolution of the Empire and the rise of the Republic the national economy took a dive, taking with it the fortunes of William's family. Her father loosing money, William's mother was quickly cut off from any sort of allowance of formality from her father. And with so few people able to afford it, his father lost patients. Before his eyes his family grew destitute to the Republic's mismanagement. They often had to use Deutschmarks to heat their house at night. Literally burning money. The destitution of the inter-war years served to radicalize William and he joined the NSDAP with his brothers in 1924. A year later his fervor for the Fascist principles of Adolf Hitler and his followers tempted him to join the newly formed Schutzstaffel. In the Schutzstaffel he found honor among his brethren and grew close to much of the rank and file of the SS. So much so that William often hesitantly accepted promotion, or respectably declined if it meant promoting out of rank with his comrades. This action often put William in the line of fire many times as he stubbornly stayed in the rank and file, slowly advancing through the ranks and operating in a wide variety of theaters and operations. From a battle-field participant to a SS police officer on the beat, he did it all. Seeking out dangers to the glorious Reich and carrying out orders, never once questioning why. He became storied and respected among many of the officers who saw promise in William if he simply accepted promotion. It became apparent to get him to move up his comrades would need to do the same. This small inconsequential faction began to petition for the promotion of William's partners to lighten the anchor. As his original squad-mates scattered across Nazi-occupied Europe he found himself easily sailing through the ranks. As a Standartenjunker he was offered a mission he was told would make him a formal officer. A heavy financial package was attached as well. The case – the mission – was never disclosed to anyone but William and the commanders who issued it. In December of 1939 he abandoned his former identity of William Hans Gröber vonKöln and became Dougal McAffroy, a Scottish private. He was deployed to England for the rest of 1940 and on to May of 1941 returned to the European mainland, having finished his mission. On return he did not immediately receive his package, and was quickly redeployed to Greece to back the offensive there. **POST CATALOG** 1 - [Killing Churchill](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/74377/posts/ic#post-2298846) 2 - [Landing](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/74377/posts/ic#post-2302275) 3 - [Touching Ground](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/74377/posts/ic#post-2303591) 4 - [Bullshit post I felt obligated to write.](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/74377/posts/ic#post-2313062)