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| - Kerner is a Nazi spy who wants to find Atlantis in order to use its ancient and powerful technology to conquer the world. He is first seen with Indy at Barnett College, under the alias of "Mr. Smith". After unlocking a tiny statue and finding a metal bead inside, he steals the bead and statue at gunpoint. The bead is made of a powerful substance called "orichalcum", which Kerner and his superior, Dr. Hans Ubermann, want to use to create weapons of mass destruction.
- In 1939, Klaus Kerner visited Dr. Indiana Jones at Barnett College. Dressed in plain clothes to disguise his true identity, he inquired about artifacts connected with the lost continent and gave him a 'key'. Jones found in the college museum a horned idol, which, when provided the key, revealed a small metallic bead. This Kerner stole. Trying to keep him from escaping, Indy kept his coat, which contained his passport and a copy of National Archeology. They realized that Kerner was interested in Sophia Hapgood and the Jastro Expedition.
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| - In 1939, Klaus Kerner visited Dr. Indiana Jones at Barnett College. Dressed in plain clothes to disguise his true identity, he inquired about artifacts connected with the lost continent and gave him a 'key'. Jones found in the college museum a horned idol, which, when provided the key, revealed a small metallic bead. This Kerner stole. Trying to keep him from escaping, Indy kept his coat, which contained his passport and a copy of National Archeology. They realized that Kerner was interested in Sophia Hapgood and the Jastro Expedition. Kerner however "visited" Sophia's house in New York and ransacked it looking for her necklace, while she was presenting an Atlantis-themed show as a psychic. Indy went to New York and had to disrupt her presentation to warn her. They entered her home after Kerner left. Returning to Germany, Kerner gave the items to Dr. Hans Ubermann who later discovered that the artifacts held the key to becoming immortal. During the course of the ensuing adventure, Kerner had several further scrapes with Jones, now teamed with the psychic, Sophia Hapgood. When the two competing teams arrived at the object of their quest, the God Device, Ubermann made plans to set himself as the Third Reich's immortal leader; but the ambitious Kerner shoved him aside and jumped into the machine first. Jones mislead Kerner into believing that only one bead would be required in the machine (as opposed to the ten beads theorised by Plato), and when the machine was activated it transformed Kerner into a grotesque horned dwarf. Unable to live with what he had become, Kerner then committed suicide by throwing himself into a lava flow.
- Kerner is a Nazi spy who wants to find Atlantis in order to use its ancient and powerful technology to conquer the world. He is first seen with Indy at Barnett College, under the alias of "Mr. Smith". After unlocking a tiny statue and finding a metal bead inside, he steals the bead and statue at gunpoint. The bead is made of a powerful substance called "orichalcum", which Kerner and his superior, Dr. Hans Ubermann, want to use to create weapons of mass destruction. Indy manages to track the Nazis to Atlantis, where they discover a massive machine in the heart of the city designed to turn humans into gods. In the past, the machine had horribly mutated the Atlantians, but the Nazis believe that the machine will work on them due to their superior Aryan qualities. Ubermann intends to become a god first, but power-hungry Kerner steps onto the ascention platform and orders Ubermann at gunpoint to turn him into a god instead. However, Ubermann only uses one orichalcum bead to power the machine, and Kerner is turned into a mutant, before jumping to his death in a lava pit.
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