and the equally nervous guard joining in out of fear before B.J. After a short pause, Rudi starts to laugh obnoxiously, automatically assuming that he is making a mocking impression of a stereotypical American, with B.J. unsurely replies to Rudi by saying that he's indeed a "hot dog", mistakenly believing Rudi to have meant the type of sausage. Stammering due to his poor grasp of German, B.J. Upon seeing the issuing city, he curiously asks "Franz" if he's a Frankfurter, as in, if he's a native of Frankfurt, presumably because Rudi grew up there. As Blazkowicz, posing as "Commander Franz", hands over his forged ID papers to the guard manning the checkpoint, Rudi grabs B.J.'s hand and personally examines the passport. Rudi Jäger is first seen at a cable car checkpoint along with his Kampfhund, Greta. Ingrid then half-heartedly asks Rudi for financial support, however small it may be, citing his successful career in the Nazi government, to help "ease the pain that comes with growing old alone". She goes on to justify the behavior of Rudi's cruel father, dismisses the beatings he had to endure as being for his own good and tells him to let the past go. On January 6, 1946, his mother, who has since moved to Dortmund, sent him a letter in which she wonders why he didn't visit her for Christmas and claims to still love Rudi as a son, stating that she regrets not telling him that she felt blessed to have had him in her life. He was noted to put fear into the hearts of his subordinates when in his presence two guards can be heard in awe at Wesley's resilience to Jäger's torture, saying that for his own sake he should just "make something up". As the warden, he was cruel and sadistic, but effective. One of Jäger's favorite pastime activities is to feed his dogs with prisoners from the castle's dungeons. Rudi was awarded a dog named Greta, who is an albino Kampfhund and always had her at his side. Rudi's relationship with Ingrid remains strained even decades later, showcased in a recent letter from Ingrid, in which she maintains her position on the abuse and passes the blame onto Rudi while guilt-tripping her son for not visiting his ailing mother and begging him for money.Īround the 1920s-30s, Rudi joined the Nazi Party and became a personal dog trainer for General Wilhelm Strasse until he was assigned to Helga von Schabbs, who made him her second-in-command at Castle Wolfenstein. After his father's death, the family fell into poverty, leading Ingrid to send Rudi to Frankfurt to live with his cousins. When Rudi's father died in a workplace accident at the coal fields after being electrocuted while standing in water, he learned from his uncle that not only is water inside humans, but it is also a conduit for electricity. His mother would nurse his wounds to stave off infection, but Rudi also blamed her for the abuse, likely because Ingrid appeared to do nothing to stop her husband and actually defended the maltreatment of their son as a correction measure for his recurring "dark mood". As a boy, Rudi was abused by his father, who would constantly beat him with a belt. Rudi was born in the Ruhr Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to Ingrid Jäger and an unnamed father in 1901.
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