Vladimir Bokov

Vladimir Bokov was an agent for the Soviet NKVD. In the immediate aftermath of World War II and the unconditional surrender of Germany, Marshal Ivan Koniev was assassinated in Berlin. Bokov was given the task of finding the killer, and through the torture of a German soldier, learned of the so-called "Werewolves".

This information was confirmed in July, when a German drove a truck loaded with explosives next to a parade of Red Army troops, and detonated it, killing himself and several troops. Bokov interviewed witness, Colonel Fyodor Furmanov, who'd been leading the parade, and survived with minor injuries. This incident, coupled with news that a German had blown himself up in a similar fashion in Erlangen in the American occupation zone confirmed what Bokov had learned.

While Bokov and his immediate superior Moisei Shteinberg oversaw the deportation for several German civilians, it wasn't until the fall of 1945 that Bokov was able to put his hands on a geuine Werewolf. One Gustav Fenstermacher had attempted to blow himself up in Dresden, but had failed. Soviet soldiers immediately captured Fenstermacher. The Red Army comander on the ground, Major General Boris Antipov quickly informed the NKVD, and Bokov collected Fenstermacher and took him back to Berlin. Bokov quickly disabused Fenstermacher of the mistaken belief that he was protected under the Geneva Convention.

Bokov next found himself in Wroclaw, Poland, where the Werewolves were actively fighting Poland's efforts to expel the ethnic German population. The Werewolves assassinated Pietruska, the regional governor. In respone, the Polish Army rounded up as many ethnic Germans as it could find, concentrating on the military personnel, but arresting civilians as well. The Polish Army then contacted the NKVD, and Bokov responded.

He met with Polish Captain Leszczynski (and quickly realized that Leszczynski was too nationalistic to survive long), who presented him with German Adrian Marwede, who claimed to have been a noncom in the German Wehrmacht during the war. Bokov quickly deduced that Marwede was in fact a member of the Waffen SS. Marwede, not a Werewolf himself, disclosed three facts, two of which were known to Bokov and Leszczynski. First, Reinhard Heydrich had been hiding weapons, even though they were needed at the front. Second, he'd been keeping back wounded soldiers after their wounds had healed, rather than send them to the front. However, the fact that Heydrich had been doing this since 1943 brought Bokov and Leszczynski up short, and privately horrified Bokov.

In December, 1945, Bokov and Shteinberg received a film from the GFF. He featured a kidnapped Red Army private named Nikolai Sergeyevich Golovko reciting GFF demands that the USSR withdraw from Germany. Bokov quickly acknowledged that Golovko was doomed, since the USSR had no intention of retreating. Bokov suggested that three of the Werewolves the USSR had in custody should be subjected to torture, decapitated, castrated, and the mutilated parts be left where their comrades could find them. Bokov personally oversaw the executions, and carried the heads and testicles to an eatery in Berlin.