![]() ![]() Willing to do anything to acquire the relic, she allied herself with the Nazis although she didn't share their ideology and disliked their lack of interest in history. ![]() By then, Schneider had become an art historian and developed an interest in searching for the fabled Holy Grail. In 1933, the Weimar Republic fell and the country was subsequently taken over by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party. Search for the Holy Grail Working with Henry Jones According to her suspicious claim, in 1932, as part of the Austrian swim team during summer, she won a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle at that year's Olympic Games, despite such event wasn't still introduced. Her obsession to acquire the Holy Grail for herself, however, would end up being her undoing.Įlsa Schneider shared her forename with her father's secretary. The Joneses eventually realized her true nature and recovered the diary from her at a Berlin bookburning rally.Īfterwards, Schneider accompanied Donovan and Nazi Colonel Ernst Vogel to the Republic of Hatay to find the Grail Temple where she betrayed Donovan and made him inadvertently commit suicide with a False Grail. You would have done the same." Jones: " I'm sorry you think so." ―Elsa Schneider and Indiana Jones ĭoctor Elsa Schneider was an Austrian art historian and former Olympic swimmer who was recruited by the Nazis to find the Holy Grail in order to acquire immortality for the Third Reich leader Adolf Hitler.Īround 1938, Schneider was involved in a scheme with American industrialist Walter Donovan to extract information from professors Henry Walton Jones, Senior and Indiana Jones in order to discover the location of the Grail through the former's Grail Diary. ![]()
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