Heinrich Jäger

Leader of company of German tanks on the Eastern front (more precisely in Ukraine). His men suffer heavy losses from the initial meeting with the Race killercraft as they were totally unexpected (for obvious reasons). The explosions were first thought to be the result of entering a mine field, before it is determined that there are supersonic aircraft present.After the raid he only had three tank and small infantry group left. He started to see the crack in the Lizard tank tactic which was they didn't have any except shooting at everything that was moving.

He was involved in a Russian-German raid that was planned to steal radioactive pieces from an atomic bomb that had exploded when the Race starcraft it was in was destroyed. This helped the Russians, Germans and Americans gain their first atomic bombs. While on this raid he met his future wife Russian air force Lieutenant Ludmila Gorbunova. Jager was forced to go through enemy territory on his way back to Germany and was forced to give up some of his radioactive pieces to the Jewish partisan Mordechai Anielewicz to save his life. Jager was sent to France on his return and helped slow down the Race's advances there. He did several raids with the SS including destroying one of the Race's bases in Croatia and destroying one of the factories that made gas masks for the Lizards. However Jager eventually found out about the brutal German policies against the Jews and was horrified of it. When the SS tried to kill the Jews in the city of Lodz in Poland he ended up turning against his country and helping the Jewish partisans in the city, including Anielewicz, stop the Germans from destroying the city. He was killed after breathing in nerve gas while trying to stop his former countrymen from killing all of the inhabitants of Lodz.

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 * "The Russians have better sense. They just motor along shooting at anything that happens to cross their path. They aren't even looking this way, though it's an obvious place for trouble. Stupid!"