So last week we brought up Karl Strasser, the son of Major Heinrich Strasser, who served as a link between the televersion of 'Casablanca' to 'Foyle's War'. This week, we'll take a look at his other son....
We don't know the first name of Major Strasser's younger son, (I favor Bernd), but he never joined the Nazi Party. So he was able to avoid any retribution after the war.
Strasser went into politics and joined the diplomatic corps of West Germany. In 1966, Herr Strasser was one of the international delegates who were reduced to powder by those nefarious no-goodniks Catwoman, the Joker, the Riddler, and the Penguin. Luckily, Batman was able to reconstitute them back together again.
Strasser found the ordeal so distressing that he resigned from the West German diplomatic service on the spot. He applied for U.S. citizenship and changed his name. Feeling safer if Batman was nearby, he moved to Gotham City where he opened an art gallery under the name of Benson Parkhurst.
However, he did run afoul of the Clock King at one point....
This is purely conjecture, but it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, that Strasser/Parkhurst was attacked by a Weeping Angel, the same one who transported its victims back to the wild, wild West. There, once having adjusted to his new life, Strasser offered his services to the German Empire and once again became an ambassador. He came to the attention of the Trueniverse audience one last time in a Secret Service case involving the midget madman Dr. Miguelito Loveless.....
'LUX VIDEO THEATRE' - "CASABLANCA"
"BATMAN 1966" (MOVIE)
'BATMAN' - "THE CLOCK KING'S CRAZY CRIMES"
'THE WILD, WILD WEST' - "THE NIGHT OF THE SURREAL McCOY"
Here's lookin' at you, Kid.....
(All of these characters were portrayed by Ivan Triesault, who played Major Strasser in the TV adaptation of "Casablanca".)
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