Red Skull (Comics)

== Red Skull's History== Johann Schmidt knew death and hatred from the moment he was born; his mother died in childbirth, and his father, blaming him, tried to kill him before committing suicide. Schmidt survived, and grew up in poverty in post-WWI Germany, quickly amassing a hatred of humanity. Everything changed during World War II, when Schmidt happened to be working as a bellhop in a hotel where Adolf Hitler and other members of the Nazi regime were staying. One day, he happened to walk in while Hitler was berating one of his officers for a failed mission. In the height of the argument, Hitler shouted, "I could teach that bellhop to be a better Nazi than you!" Taking notice of Schmidt, Hitler saw the hatred brewing within the boy, and realized that he in fact could make a powerful force out of him. Hitler took Schmidt under his wing, and eventually, the boy grew into a man, the Red Skull, the greatest weapon of Nazi Germany.