Johan Liebert

Johan Liebert and his twin sister Anna are the products of a top secret eugenics project in the communist Czechoslovakia during the 1970s. In the years of the Cold War, the Czechoslovakian government initiated a research program to produce mentally and physically superior human beings with high intelligence, natural leadership skills and "Aryan" features (pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes). The project was conducted with dozens of couples to breed the best individuals of the nation. The people born in the project were designed to become the new leaders of Czechoslovakia, securing the future of the nation. The head of the project was a Czech psychologist and children's writer known as Franz Bonaparta, who had held reading seminars for children in the Red Rose Mansion in Prague during the 1960s. A German-born Czech soldier was paired with a young woman known for her beauty and intelligence. The woman became pregnant, but the man fell in love with her and finally confessed the truth of his "mission." Determined to protect his love and offsprings, the man decided flee to safety with the woman. However, they were captured by government agents and separated from each other. The man was executed for betraying his superiors and the woman was placed under surveillance. When Bonaparta came to visit her, the woman realized his involvement in the project. She promised that her children would eventually take revenge on Bonaparta for their parents. Finally, the woman gave birth to healthy twins: a boy and a girl. The baby twins were visited by Bonaparta and his loyal follower Peter Capek. Bonaparta strictly forbade the woman from naming her children.

The mother and the twins lived in an apartment building known as the Three Frogs in Prague. The mother disguised the boy in girl's clothing, tricking people into believing that she had only one daughter. The boy often read The Monster Without A Name, a children's storybook written by Franz Bonaparta under false name of Emil Scherbe. In that particular storybook, a nameless monster inhabits the body of a young boy called Johan to steal his name. Meanwhile, the mother became friends with a high-class prostitute Helenka Novakova who was also known as Margot Langer in West Germany. In 1980, the mother was visited by the German millionaire Hans Georg Schuwald who was looking for his missing lover Margot Langer in Czechoslovakia. When Schuwald met the mother, the twins were standing behind her and saw him. Later, Bonaparta and Čapek arrived to take one of the twins to the Red Rose Mansion. The mother selected the girl. However, the boy felt the mother had intended to send him and mistaken him for his sister. Ever since the boy believed that he was an unwanted child. When the girl came back to Three Frogs, she narrated her visit in the Red Rose Mansion to her brother. She was confined into a dark room for days, only to be forcibly taken to the dining room of the building. There, Bonaparta murdered over forty people with poisoned red wine. The girl was mentally shocked for witnessing a mass murder. Somehow, the twin's identities changed and the boy gained her sister's memories. While the girl regained her original personality, the boy thought that he was psychologically injured by the massacre in the Red Rose Mansion, rather than his sister. The fake memories would eventually manifest in homicidal and manipulative behavior, transforming him into a "monster." However, the girl forgot to tell that immediately after the massacre Bonaparta comforted her, asking the twins not to become monsters. In fact, Bonaparta had fallen in love the twin's mother and decided to save her and the twins by killing all people involved with the eugenics project.

After burning the Three Frogs, the twins fled from Prague. On the countryside, the twins met an elderly couple that became their first foster parents. After the boy murdered them, the twins continued their flight to the border region between Czechoslovakia and East Germany. There, the boy saw the "landscape of the end," a barren wasteland devoid of all life. The twins would have died in the border unless an East German border patrol commanded by General Helmut Wolf had not arrived to the site. While the twins wrapped in warm blankets, Wolf noticed Emil Scherbe's The Monster Without A Name in the boy's bag. Wolf named the boy "Johan" after the character in the storybook. The girl became known as "Anna." Recognizing Johan's high intelligence and natural leadership skills, General Wolf send him to Kinderheim 511, a "special orphanage" supervised by the East German Health and Internal Affairs Departments in Berlin. Anna was taken into Orphanage 47, which was also located in Berlin.

While Kinderheim 511 was officially founded to take care of the children of political dissidents, the orphanage itself was a top secret research project to turn young boys into emotionless soldiers and spies by the use of behavior modification and brainwashing techniques. Ironically for Johan, the program of Kinderheim 511 was based on the results of Bonaparta's reading seminars in the Red Rose Mansion that were exchanged between the communist regimes of Czechoslovakia and East Germany. However, the personnel of Kinderheim 511 was puzzled with Johan, because he was "perfect" even before entering the program, yet his true origins were unknown. After being drugged and hypnotized, Johan interviewed by the personnel. The interview recorded on audio tape, which was taken by Director Biermann. Years later, Director Biermann, under the false identity of a Russian immigrant known as Mikhail Ivanovich Petrov, told Wolfgang Grimmer that the program of Kinderheim 511 was corrupted by an outside factor. After Biermann left Kinderheim 511, his successor was killed during the incident in which Johan manipulated the instructors and children in Kinderheim 511 into killing each other. Officially, all fifty people in Kinderheim 511 were killed. Roberto, Wolfgang Grimmer and Stefan Jost (who was later shot and killed by Detective Richard Braun) left Kinderheim 511 before the incident and were later involved in the Johan case. During the massacre, Johan sat on the chair, watching as anarchy and chaos destroyed the orphanage. He was approached by one of the instructors by the name of Hartmann. Johan told him that his ultimate goal was to be the last living person in the world. Hartmann survived the incident, but he was not the only survivor. Johan also spared the life of a young boy who was adopted by Ernest Sievernich, head of the Sievernich Group and one of the wealthiest businessmen in West Germany, and was later known as Christof Sievernich. The East German government issued a gag order and Kinderheim 511 was abandoned to ruin.

After leaving Kinderheim 511, Johan met Anna in Orphanage 47. Meanwhile, an East German trade advisor called Michael Liebert and his wife decided to adopt a boy from the orphanage. The Lieberts selected Johan, but he refused to leave his sister and the Lieberts adopted Anna as well. In 1986, the Lieberts and the twins crossed the Berlin Wall and defected to West Germany. The West German government gave a residence for the Lieberts in Düsseldorf. The incident caused a media sensation and the Lieberts were interviewed by television crews. Franz Bonaparta, now living in Ruhenheim in South Germany, saw the television broadcast and decided to visit the twins for the last time. Appearing as a Czechoslovakian refugee, Bonaparta was allowed to take a look on the sleeping twins. Unbeknownst to Bonaparta and the Lieberts, the ten-year old Johan was in fact only pretending that he was sleeping. Johan believed that Bonaparta was a monster who had come to take him and his sister. After Bonaparta left the Liebert residence, Johan murdered the Lieberts. Anna woke up and saw the bodies of her foster parents. Then, she spotted Johan, still holding the pistol in his hand. Johan told Anna to shoot him in the head, remove fingerprints from the pistol and throw it out the window. Anna realized that her brother was responsible for killing their previous foster parents and shot her brother in the head. The neighbours reported of having heard gunshots from the Liebert residence and the police was send to investigate the case. The police officers soon discovered the bodies of the Liebert couple, a grievously injured Johan and a catatonic Anna. The twins were delivered to receive treatment in the Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf. There, a Japanese surgeon named Kenzo Tenma met the twins for the first time. Vlcsnap-2010-01-02-13h58m56s25Johan after being treated by Dr. Tenma. McBraasAdded by McBraas

Earlier the same day, the wife of a deceased Turkish construction worker had accused Tenma of murdering her husband, because his surgical operation was cancelled and Tenma was ordered to operate a renowned opera singer. Ever since the incident, Tenma believed that all human lives are equal. Director Heinemann told Tenma to save Mayor Roedecker's life, but Tenma ignored his orders and performed a surgical operation on Johan. While Johan was on critical condition, Tenma was able to remove the bullet from his head. However, Mayor Roedecker died and Director Heinemann demoted Tenma, putting Dr. Boyer and Dr. Oppenheim to his position. Having lost his career, Tenma told a comatose Johan that Director Heinemann ought to be dead. However, Johan was apparently conscious and overheard Tenma's speech. Johan considered Tenma a father figure for saving his life and wanted to show his gratitude. He laced candies with nitric acid and tricked the doctors into consuming them. Heinemann, Boyer and Oppenheim died, and Johan escaped from the Eisler Memorial Hospital with his sister. The twins went to Heidelberg and were adopted by the Fortner couple. The Fortners named the girl "Nina Fortner", but Johan disappeared and spend his time with other foster parents in Cologne, Hamburg, Munich and Hanover. He used numerous false names; for example, in Cologne he was known as "Michael," lived with the Reichmanns and went to school, but his school records were destroyed in the fire. In Munich, Johan was known as "Franz," lived with the Haynaus and became acquaintance with the local blind old man who was a former U-boat crew member in World War II. The old man told his war stories, but Johan was mostly fascinated with absolute terror that he and his crewmates felt. In Bruntal, Johan met the Lieberts who were unrelated to Michael Liebert and his wife. The Liebert couple of Bruntal had a son who was also named Johan Liebert. He lived with the Lieberts as their "son," because the real Johan Liebert was dead and his birth certificate was destroyed by the fire of the local town hall.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany joined the Federal Republic of Germany and the former Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Meanwhile, Johan became a criminal mastermind. He grew familiar with Christof Sievernich, the boy whose life he spared in Kinderheim 511, and his foster father Ernest Sievernich of the Sievernich Group. Johan met three serial killers in Griesheim Park and manipulated them into covering scandalous issues involving the Sievernich Group. The people killed in the murders were Frida Schelling who was pregnant to Christof Sievernich; the Bilker Bank employee Fritz Oberth who was going to reveal a major scandal on the Sievernich Group; and Erich Klemperer who smuggled Christopf from East Germany and illegally sold him to Ernest Sievernich. Ernest Sievernich had connections to the neo-Nazi movement in Frankfurt that worshipped Johan as the second Hitler. After Johan murdered all his relatives and friends, the elderly General Wolf became one of the leaders of the organization, but he secretly despised his associates, Baby and Professor Geidlitz, for seeing Johan as Hitler's heir. The leader of the organisation was Peter Capek who would try to control Johan for his further plans. Johan used the Sievernich Group's immense wealth to gain economical power in the underground black market. In 1991, Johan established an underground bank that held monopoly in money laundering. Margot Langer became involved with the bank and she apparently lived with him in an apartment in Offenbach. Johan found out Margot Langer was the mother of Hans Georg Schuwald's illegitimate son. He masterminded the "Voice of God" murder case in which Schuwald's maid and accountant were killed. In 1995, Margot Langer was murdered under mysterious circumstances. One day, Johan disappeared and his former business partners in the underground bank started a power struggle to obtain the money. In the end, the criminals killed each other and the bank was disbanded. Johan met a man known as Roberto, who also spend his childhood in Kinderheim 511, and invoked his most precious memory that involved hot cocoa. Roberto became Johan's most trusted servant, obeying his orders and killing people for him.

In 1995, Johan decided to kill his former foster parents. He manipulated a serial killer called Peter Jurgens into murdering of Johan's foster parents, Hanna Kemp. Johan also hired Adolf Junkers and his two partners to commit murders in Cologne, Hamburg, Munich and Hanover. The murders shocked Germany by their brutality: for example, the bodies of the Maynus couple was found on the Izar River near Cologne. The police and Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) conducted extensive crime investigations, forcing Johan to betray his accomplices. Johan killed Junker's friends, but Junkers himself escaped and was accidentally hit by a car. Junkers was delivered to the Eisler Memorial Hospital where he was looked after by Dr. Tenma. Johan lured Junkers out of the hospital by killing his police guard with poisoned candies. Junkers panicked and ran to the construction site, only to face Johan in person. Tenma followed his patient to the construction site and met Johan once again after nine years. Johan told Tenma that he murdered the Lieberts, Director Heinemann, Dr. Boyer and Dr. Oppenheim. He also revealed that Johan Liebert was not his birthname and he was the one responsible for the serial murders of middle-aged childless couples through Germany. Johan shot and killed Junkers, but he spared Tenma's life. Tenma was too shocked by the fact that he saved the life of a boy who became a sociopathic serial killer. Johan reminded Tenma that he was supposed to die nine years ago, but Tenma rescued him from certain death. Johan's walk from the construction site was witnessed by Tenma's former fiancée, Eva Heinemann.

(From Monster Wiki)