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An Excessively Lengthy and Terribly Tedious
Background for Konrad Abendroth, M.D.

Doctor Konrad Abendroth is a recent recruit of Infinite Solutions that hails
from Reich-5, a truly nasty world in which the Axis powers definitively
defeated the Allies.

He was an only child born into a well respected American family with
impeccable Nordic breeding. His father, a well to do businessman named
Wilhelm, was a stern and exacting man with strong party connections that
understood well how to curry favor where it mattered most. He cared greatly
for his small family and would rarely deny them anything but for reasons
Konrad never understood, could become abusive toward his wife and child at
times. His mother, Eva, was a much more kind hearted and gentle person who
enjoyed a life of leisure that her husband was able to provide. She loved
horses, skiing, literature and taking care of stray animals, many of whom
would become members of the family. In the primary family residence she had
a small library that even included a few banned books by Kerouac, Bonhoeffer,
Rousseau and Kant. Konrad's reading of these works coupled with the doting
encouragement of his mother played a strong hand in his future unrealistic
hopes and expectations for freedom. It would not be far off the mark to say
that Eva was a truly free spirit that could not help but instill this love
of freedom in her son. All of these circumstances allowed him to
live a much easier life than the American masses. His father's connections
and ability to open doors combined with his mother's maternal succor
facilitated his future in medicine and bioengineering.

As a young medical student it quickly became apparent that Konrad was brighter
than most of his peers. Many things seemed to come to him far too easily. It
was also at this time that he realized that higher learning's promise of
intellectual freedom was a hollow one. Whatever euphemism one preferred to use
for it, America had inherited a truly Fascist government with all the usual
trappings. Certain teachings were never to be questioned. In spite of all
contrary verbal posturing used to persuade the less discerning his first seeds
of doubt were planted which would later flower. As a means of escape from
his doubts and also as a means to relieve his boredom with some of his less
challenging classes, he began designing new tools for what he was sure would
be his future trade in bioengineering. It was the innovation and sometimes
even the elegance of these early designs that first caught the eye of Charles
Davenport III, the director of a very important research lab and a grandson
of its founder, the late Charles Davenport I.

He was eventually recruited to study at Cold Spring Harbor laboratory, a now
venerable institute founded by the elder Davenport which had long been at the
vanguard of the US eugenics movement. Here Dr. Davenport the Third hoped to
convince Konrad to take up the study of genetic engineering but the race
science touted at the lab and subsequent dishonesty used to conceal it's
serious flaws simply left a bad taste in the mouth of the young Abendroth.
In the view of Konrad this was not real science. More times than he could
remember he had observed the embarrassment of a lab assistant as experiments
alleged to prove the racist scientific theories of Davenport seemed to fail
right before the eyes of all involved. Results would often be massaged to
fit the hoped for outcome and thereby preserve the faith of all who were
still true believers. He possessed enough wisdom to know there would be hell
to pay if he ever publicly questioned what he now believed to be only the
myth of the superiority of the Aryan race. This was very serious business
indeed as history could attest. The Dakota camps in the 80's and how the US
truly came to be judenrein, while sanitized in the history taught to the
unwashed, were well known by the vetted employees of Cold Spring and were
considered something in which any loyal Aryan citizen should take
great pride. Konrad always felt shame rather than the patriotic pride of his
fellows. Reflecting about the camps soon turned him into a connoisseur
of peppermint schnapps. Thus began his love affair with booze.

It eventually became apparent to Davenport that Konrad's interests were
leading him elsewhere. Dr. Abendroth would spend most of his energy studying
the tissue engineering and cloning work of Japanese scholars when it was
available and tinkering with more medical gadgets with the aid of the amazing
technology that Cold Spring had amassed thanks to so many generous albeit
misguided benefactors.After some time Abendroth decided to leave the stifling
atmosphere at Cold Spring so he began to cast about for a place where he
might find greater freedom. He could still vaguely recall his
great-grandfather's stories about the sheer beauty of the Rhine valley and
began to dream about visiting the family's former homeland. In the States it
was rumored that citizens of the Reich proper enjoyed a lush life and
academics were given the greatest of freedoms, the likes of which were only
dreamed about by the wealthiest of Americans. Having been a child of
privilege he felt he might be able to fit right in.

Soon Konrad had signed on with a German cartel doing research in advanced
cloning technologies which required him to be vetted by the SS, an unpleasant
reality he had hoped he could avoid. The sheer beauty of the Rhine valley
was breathtaking and the stories of a greater level of wealth enjoyed by even
the most modest German family also turned out to be true but all claims of a
higher level of intellectual freedom were outright fabrications. If anything
the home of his great-grandfather held an even greater stranglehold over the
academic world's affairs. He could almost feel his handlers from the SS
breathing down his neck. The research firm that he worked for performed the
most macabre of experiments such that Konrad now began to have a few issues
with insomnia. Something deeply disturbed and angered him about treating
unwanted human clones as only so much medical waste. Many experiments, the
details of which the good Doctor now refuses to illuminate further, both
excited and repulsed him at the same time. Konrad began to fear that his own
sanity might be shattered if he could not figure out a graceful exit from his
employ. This would become fuel for the future fire of his disloyalty and
rage which came fully into it's own much later. As soon as he could swing it
without arousing suspicions he returned home a thoroughly disillusioned and
disappointed man.

After his return he began work for a small biotech corporation that
specialized in developing techniques to reverse the effects of aging. There
he soon met a lady who was not his intellectual equal but in every sense his
better. Her name was Doctor Anna Katz. They became acquaintances and might
have become even better friends but Anna always seemed a bit guarded around
him. Konrad never understood just why. Nevertheless, he worked in great
contentment there for a fewyears until Anna moved on to another company then
served out his remaining year before beginning an exclusive practice on the
east coast. His work could only be had by the wealthiest of the American
elites. In time even Charles Davenport III, who had decided that the world
would be unable to cope with his death, became a client of his, having two
clones prepared just in case the grim reaper came knocking. Abendroth
enjoyed being a physician but had to admit the cloning side of his practice
was becoming quite lucrative. Remembering lessons learned in Germany he
struggled to be ethical in his treatment of human clones rather than treat
them as only so much trash. After a few years business was really booming
and he began to miss Dr. Katz. He thought that perhaps she might be
interested in joining him in his current venture.

He attempted to look up Anna but his initial efforts were met with only
frustration so he hired a detective to help track her down. The next year his
parents died in an automobile accident leaving him a substantial fortune but
Konrad could not enjoy it. He felt utterly alone and at his worse moments
rather than mourning he began to feel an unquenchable rage building within.
He drank so much that he finally had to use the new liver he'd grown for
himself. It was not only the death of his parents that was gnawing at him.
Something else was hidden under the surface that he could not identify.
After many false starts he was contacted by his PI with a lead that would
only bring more devastating news. The lead would take him back to Cold
Spring where he finally came to discover to his utter horror what had
happened to Anna. After a number of very discreet meetings with former
colleagues there, he discovered that she had recently been executed at the
behest of the party. None other than Charles Davenport had issued the final
order. Her crime was that she was a Jew and nothing more. A test had come
back from a recent medical exam that showed the Tay-Sachs gene, which when
detected in a fetus would result in it's immediate abortion. This was the
proverbial straw that broke the camel's back finally provoking his attempt at
sabotage.

Davenport was required to return to the clinic once every three years for a
procedure called braintaping. In the event that a person with a clone dies,
his memories and skills are simply "played back" into his mind-blank clone.
Since German and American "race science" have left many advanced medical
techniques in a retrograde state, a very skilled surgeon is required for this
invasive process as is a week under a physician's care. The Japanese, being
unburdened with racial pseudoscience, have a much more efficient non-invasive
procedure rumored to take perhaps an hour. When Doctor Abendroth realized
the irony of how the racist views of Cold Spring would actually be the final
undoing of Davenport he found himself laughing uncontrollably.

Thus at the appointed hour the Doctor became a murderer and had his revenge on
Charles, nearly loosing his nerve at the last moment. He saw to it that all
of Davenport's clones, tissue samples and MMSD archives were utterly
destroyed. Then he got drunk and shot up a memorial to former President
Pelley while waiting to be arrested. He was subjected to brutal torture and
thought he had died only to awaken to the promise of a hopeful future. No
doubt the official record will read that he was a traitor that was executed
for his many crimes against the Fatherland.

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BJones at 18:29, 20 August 2009

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