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Lars Rainer - fictional character from polish TV Series "Czas honoru" and book trilogy "Czas honoru"[1]. He was a German born ~1903 in Hessen, son of Peter Rainer, lover of Ingeborg Neumann and tennis player.

In the TV series, Lars Rainer wears decorations on his uniform that do not match his biography: Iron Cross for World War I, Order of Blood, Golden Party Badge, Nazi Party Long Service Award, Anschluss Medal, Sudetenland Medal with Prague Castle bar, Memel Medal, West Wall Medal and Bandit-warfare Badge. In this drawing, I added to him the more realistic War Merit Cross 1st and 2nd class, Iron Cross 2nd class, and Wound Badge. From the uniform from the TV series I left the Police Long Service Award and the Gold Sports Badge.

Left to right:
- criminal police inspector in Hamburg, then Interpol inspector in Lyon (before 1937)

- member of the NSDAP and SA trained to fight against Poland[2] (1937-39)

- deputy commander of SS-Sonderkommando "Tiger" (1939-43[3])
- Commander of Sipo-SD[4] in the Warsaw District, then commandant of the transit camp in the church of St. Wojciech in Warsaw-Wola (1943-45[3])

- successively: escaped war criminal, prisoner in Poland, prisoner in the American occupation zone in Germany[5] (1945-46)

- American agent in Warsaw[6] (1946)

[1] He appeared in the last two parts: "Turyści Sikorskiego", "Przed Burzą" and "Pożegnanie z Warszawą"
[2] Because Rainer was not a Nazi, he was removed from the German police. Hitler's regime, however, was supported by his father, thanks to whom Hans Frank became interested in the former outstanding criminologist, arranging him patronage in exchange for learning the Polish language, Polish culture and joining the Nazi movement
[3] I included the time frame from the novel because it's more realistic. In the TV series, Rainer arrived in Warsaw in April 1941 as a Gestapo officer from the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin. Due to his failures, he was criminally deprived of his position. He took revenge by secretly helping Władek (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ), Bronek (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ), Janek (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ) and Michał (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ) in the assassination of their enemies: Josef Tannenberg , Martin Halbe (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ), Uwe Rappke and Johann von Relasky. In April 1944, he was brought to Warsaw from Thessaloniki, where he served. The TV series is more famous than the novel, but it contains more historical errors (in 1941 the Polish Resistance was not as strong as it was shown in the series), just as the novel is unfortunately filled with stereotypes about Poles, French and Soviets (not entirely Germans)
[4] In the TV series and novel he was incorrectly called the "chief of the Gestapo" (Gestapo was the 4th department of the local Sipo-SD commands)
[5] Imprisoned in a Polish prison, Rainer convinced Władek, Bronek and Janek to rescue him together with Michał and Celina in exchange for giving the Americans the Home Army archives that he had hidden near Plzeň in May 1945
[6] In 1946, Rainer returned to Poland with Celina, as a CIG agent seeking documentation of German retaliatory weapons and designer Blachnitzky. Thanks to his former agent, Ireneusz Woźniak, he obtained part of the money that Polish emigration wanted to spend on anti-communist resistance. Rainer also seized the Swiss documents of Emilia Woźniak and Antoni Karkowski, the further fate of the Nazi was not shown, although there is a suggestion of escape and life in hiding

NOT-POLITICAL DRAWING!!!

Description
Lars Rainer - fictional character from polish TV Series "Czas honoru" and book trilogy "Czas honoru"[1]. He was a German born ~1903 in Hessen, son of Peter Rainer, lover of Ingeborg Neumann and tennis player.

In the TV series, Lars Rainer wears decorations on his uniform that do not match his biography: Iron Cross for World War I, Order of Blood, Golden Party Badge, Nazi Party Long Service Award, Anschluss Medal, Sudetenland Medal with Prague Castle bar, Memel Medal, West Wall Medal and Bandit-warfare Badge. In this drawing, I added to him the more realistic War Merit Cross 1st and 2nd class, Iron Cross 2nd class, and Wound Badge. From the uniform from the TV series I left the Police Long Service Award and the Gold Sports Badge.

Left to right:
- criminal police inspector in Hamburg, then Interpol inspector in Lyon (before 1937)

- member of the NSDAP and SA trained to fight against Poland[2] (1937-39)

- deputy commander of SS-Sonderkommando "Tiger" (1939-43[3])
- Commander of Sipo-SD[4] in the Warsaw District, then commandant of the transit camp in the church of St. Wojciech in Warsaw-Wola (1943-45[3])

- successively: escaped war criminal, prisoner in Poland, prisoner in the American occupation zone in Germany[5] (1945-46)

- American agent in Warsaw[6] (1946)

[1] He appeared in the last two parts: "Turyści Sikorskiego", "Przed Burzą" and "Pożegnanie z Warszawą"
[2] Because Rainer was not a Nazi, he was removed from the German police. Hitler's regime, however, was supported by his father, thanks to whom Hans Frank became interested in the former outstanding criminologist, arranging him patronage in exchange for learning the Polish language, Polish culture and joining the Nazi movement
[3] I included the time frame from the novel because it's more realistic. In the TV series, Rainer arrived in Warsaw in April 1941 as a Gestapo officer from the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin. Due to his failures, he was criminally deprived of his position. He took revenge by secretly helping Władek (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ), Bronek (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ), Janek (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ) and Michał (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ) in the assassination of their enemies: Josef Tannenberg , Martin Halbe (www.deviantart.com/sonthisland… ), Uwe Rappke and Johann von Relasky. In April 1944, he was brought to Warsaw from Thessaloniki, where he served. The TV series is more famous than the novel, but it contains more historical errors (in 1941 the Polish Resistance was not as strong as it was shown in the series), just as the novel is unfortunately filled with stereotypes about Poles, French and Soviets (not entirely Germans)
[4] In the TV series and novel he was incorrectly called the "chief of the Gestapo" (Gestapo was the 4th department of the local Sipo-SD commands)
[5] Imprisoned in a Polish prison, Rainer convinced Władek, Bronek and Janek to rescue him together with Michał and Celina in exchange for giving the Americans the Home Army archives that he had hidden near Plzeň in May 1945
[6] In 1946, Rainer returned to Poland with Celina, as a CIG agent seeking documentation of German retaliatory weapons and designer Blachnitzky. Thanks to his former agent, Ireneusz Woźniak, he obtained part of the money that Polish emigration wanted to spend on anti-communist resistance. Rainer also seized the Swiss documents of Emilia Woźniak and Antoni Karkowski, the further fate of the Nazi was not shown, although there is a suggestion of escape and life in hiding

NOT-POLITICAL DRAWING!!!