Ernst (Nazi)

The man that adopted the identity of Yitz Perlman was a Nazi soldier named Ernst. During Germany's invasion in Czechoslovakia, he was approached by a Jew that attempted to feed him false information to earn his family passage to America. Even though he was aware of the man's ploy, Ernst believed that Hitler's end would eventually come, so he agreed to help him in exchange of escaping with him, evading capture by the Allies disguised as his long-lost rabbi friend, Yitz Perlman. Ernst shot the man dead before joining the rest of the group, since he was the only person that knew of Ernst's new identity. Perlman then fled to America with the man's wife and their son, Elias Spector.

As years went by, the Spectors and Perlman settled in Chicago, Illinois. Yitz and Elias were extremely close, and Elias became a rabbi thanks to his teachings. Elias' son, Marc, even regarded Yitz as an uncle. Perlman had been part of a cabal of Nazis responsible for the creation of the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger. He had discovered a method to elongate his life, so long as he sufficiently stimulated the dark, primordial pleasure center of his brain on a regular basis. He achieved this by killing Jews, becoming a serial killer in secret.