In the fictional universe of Indiana Jones, Colonel Dietrich is an officer in the GermanWehrmacht assigned to Tanis, Egypt, in 1936. He's a ruthless man who would have tortured Marion Ravenwood for the locale of the Ark. When Belloq opens the Ark of the Covenant, he dries up like a raisin. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Henry Indiana Jones, Jr. ... German cavalry and motorized units entering Poland from East Prussia during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 Wehrmacht (help· info) (Defence force) was the name of the armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. ... or Tanis (Τάνις), the Greek name of ancient Djanet (modern صان الØجر á¹¢Än al-Ḥaǧar), is a city in the north-eastern Nile delta of Egypt (30°58′N 31°52′E). ... A late 19th-century artists conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing a Renaissance cassone for the Ark and cherubim as latter-day Christian angels The Ark of the Covenant (×רון הברית in Hebrew: aron habrit) is described in the Hebrew Bible as a sacred container built at the command... Raisins are dried grapes. ...
He was portrayed by Wolf Kahler in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders of the Lost Ark, also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a film released by Paramount Pictures in 1981. ...
But Dietrich was outraged when he heard the news of the July 20th assassination attempt on Hitler, calling it "a cowardly act by the plotters" which had thrown the German military "into a mess." (ibid.).
Dietrich's last battle was fought in Vienna when his outmanned outgunned and exhausted Panzer force fail to stop the Red Army from taking the city.
Dietrich was found guilty of complicity in the massacre of U.S. soldiers near Malmedy during the Ardennes offensive, though his alleged responsibility for the deed was never proven.
In the film, Toht is tasked with acquiring the headpiece of the Staff of Ra from Marion Ravenwood in Nepal for ColonelDietrich, but he fails.
However, he does supply Dietrich with half of the medallion's inscriptions when they become burned into his hand as a result of Toht trying, unsuccessfully, to pull the headpiece from the fire in Marion's Nepalese tavern.
In the finished film, Toht is riding with Belloq and Dietrich and thus survives to be killed when the Ark is opened at the end.
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