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| “ | On the afternoon of June 18, as reported by wireless to the U-61, bound for Kiel, we torpedoed the British freighter Victory, New York to Liverpool, in N. Latitude 45 degrees 16 minutes, W. Longitude 28 degrees 34 minutes; permitting the crew to leave in boats in order to obtain a good cinema view for the admiralty records. The ship sank quite picturesquely, bow first, the stem rising high out of the water whilst the hull shot down perpendicularly to the bottom of the sea. Our camera missed nothing, and I regret that so fine a reel of film should never reach Berlin. After that we sank the lifeboats with our guns and submerged. | „ |
| ~ Heinrich on destroying a British ship. |
Lieutenant Commander Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein is the villainous protagonist of H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Temple. An officer in the Imperial German Navy and commander of a submarine during the First World War, his crew loots a carved piece of ivory from a deceased English sailor, resulting in a series of events that eventually caused the deaths of the submarine's entire crew, including Heinrich himself.
What makes him Pure Evil?[]
- At the start of the short story, he writes about torpedoing the Victory british freighter, mentioning how it was a "fine view" and sinking the lifeboats with pride, even lamenting how he cannot send the footage to Berlin.
- He is a massive hypocrite, saying "German lives are precious", but through the story he constantly abuses his crew, looks down on them for not being Prussian, and allows the looting and desecration of a British sailor's corpse in spite of mourning him as a victim of the "War of agression" moments before.
- Reprimands his crew only because a sailor claimed that the corpse was swimming, and refuses a request to throw the carved ivory away out of petulance even with how distressed they are.
- Has the Boatswain Müller confined and whipped because he was suffering from halucinations of the submarine's previous victims.
- Reacts to his men going insane and two of them apparently committing suicide with apathy.
- Had Lieutenant Klenze shoot a seaman because the crew wanted a surrender.
- Murdered six seamen with no remorse for attempting a mutiny and even called Klenze a "soft, womanish Rhinelander" for hesitating in killing them.
- Reacts to Klenze feeling remorse for his victims and hallucinating them with contempt.
- Klenze's hallucinations shows that Victory was not an isolated incident, and he had no qualms with sinking women, and children too, even saying those warcrimes were noble because it served the German state. They also show he has a high kill count.
- When Klenze becomes insane and suicidal, he agrees to kill him by pulling a lever and sending him to his death in the deep sea's pressure, only lamenting his death because he has no one else to talk, even demeaning him as not being his mental equal.
- His fate of suffering from hallucinations and going towards his death in the temple is not portrayed sympathetically at all.
- While he mentions having sons, he talks about them as extensions of himself and his legacy instead of individuals.
- Stands out in spite of the Cthulhu Mythos's high heinous standards as a human military commander without any connections to supernatural forces and having a high kill count for his resources.
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- Karl Heinrich on the Villains Wiki
- Karl Heinrich on the Lovecraft Wiki
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