Klaus Klinger

Klaus Klinger
Country of Origin	Germany
Date of Birth	1923
Date of Death	1961, Nuclear Bunker District, Manhattan, American Territories, United States
Age	20 (Return to Castle Wolfenstein) 22 (Wolfenstein 2009) 23 (The Old Blood) 37 (The New Order) 38 (The New Colossus)
Height	6'1"
Weight	187 lbs
Sex	Male
Nationality	German
Occupation	Gruppenführer (Major General)
Fate	Deceased: Assassinated by B.J. Blazkowicz in Manhattan
Appearance(s)	Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

"Klinger: Can you smell it?
Frank: Smell what, Uberkommandant?
Klinger: Uneasiness. The deep confusion permeating the American mindset. They can feel they have been defeated but they do not believe it. You know, Frank, the Americans are not as evil as other races. They recognize the lower standing of the Jew and the Negro reasonably well, but they cannot be trusted in their obsession with self-determination.
Frank: Very true, sir.
Klinger: For you see, they do not value the intellectual work of the mind. Many of them can’t even read, for god’s sake.
Frank: Is that so, sir?
Klinger: *chuckle* It’s not funny. Sad!
Frank: Yes, sir."

―Klaus Klinger and Frank contemplating the American resistance fighting back.

Gruppenführer Klaus Klinger is a minor antagonist and enemy in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.

Biography

Before 1961

Klinger was a highly decorated officer, such that by 1961 he was considered to be among the circle of Übercommanders, the most senior members of the Nazi hierarchy in the American Territories. He led such operations as the Nainpur campaign in 1948-1950, the Purge of Haines Creek in 1955 and the assault on Greenwood in 1958. During his career he killed one notable resistance leader and captured five others. He was responsible for overseeing the training of Klansmen and other American Nazi sympathizers to provide additional manpower for the regime. He courted an American woman named Henrietta, writing a letter to her and buying her father a television set.

Assassination

In July 1961, Klinger led troops to restore a nuclear bunker in Manhattan whose previous garrison had been wiped out. As a high-value target in an area subject to multiple recent terrorist attacks he was heavily guarded; however the resistance forces aboard the Eva's Hammer had intercepted a transmission detailing his deployment and the assassin sent after him was none other than William J. Blazkowicz himself, back from the dead. Klinger's troops proved to be no more capable of stopping Blazkowicz's rampage within the bunker than their predecessors and he would become the first of sixteen Übercommanders to meet their ends at the hands of Terror-Billy.

Personality

As seen by his dialogue, Klaus Klinger is a philosophical, contemplative man, who, while still believing in the same ideology as other Nazis, approaches it from a practical and logical perspective, albeit a twisted logic. He believes that Americans are not as evil as those whom the Nazis see as undesirables, in that they recognize the lower standing of what the Nazis call “lesser races”, but does not trust them with their self-determination, seeing them as stupid and illiterate.

Trivia

• Klinger is the only Übercommander whom the player does not have to find by using the Enigma machine.
• Klinger is wearing a different uniform in the form of a Wehrmacht general at a photo on the Killing Board.