Krause was Nazi official, who was a potential buyer of the Uppsala Scroll. He was starting to go bald and gray, but sported a full, dark moustache. In 1930, he and several Nazi soldiers traveled to Marrakesh to acquire the Uppsala Scroll from René Belloq. Meeting in a darkened building with Belloq, Krause sought proof that the scroll's powers were real. Belloq produced a powder, developed using the scroll's information, that could create "Odin's Men" - beserkers, and one of Krause's men, Veidt stepped up to sample it. Krause watched as Veidt transformed into a raging muscular madman, and then shot the beserker after he attacked a merchant. Agreeing to Belloq's price, Krause was about to close the deal when Indiana Jones slipped in and stole the scroll and escaped. Krause ordered his men to