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| “ | Behind those walls, there was one guard who decided everyone's fate. If he pointed to the left; You did hard labor. If he pointed to the right? You died. That man was Franz Schlechtnacht. I was spared death but I was given hard labor. He made me sort the camp recyclables, but some of those bottles still had a little bit of soda in them. They would spill out on my hands and make them kinda sticky! Dear god how my hands would get kinda sticky! | „ |
| ~ Herbert explaining the torturous labor he went through in Franz's concentration camp. |
Franz Gutentag is the main antagonist in the season nine Family Guy episode "German Guy".
He was an elderly puppeteer who befriends Chris Griffin and had recently opened the Quahog Puppet Store, but in reality was a former Nazi concentration camp guard.
He was voiced by John Viener.
Biography[]
Past[]
After John Herbert was captured in the Second World War by Nazi soldiers due to his plane crashing after a lost dog-fight, he was brought to a concentration camp ran by a man named Franz Schlechtnacht, a sadistic SS officer and guard who determines the fates of the prisoners by sending them to either do hard labor or had them executed.
Herbert was spared an execution, but was forced to deal with the camp's recyclables until presumably the end of the war. Sometime later, Franz managed to escape prosecution after the Nazi party lost the war and moved to the United States in Rhode Island.
German Guy[]
Nearly seventy years later, Franz has taken up the hobby of puppetry and has his own shop set up within his home in Quahog. After Lois Griffin tells Chris that he needs a hobby, he discovers Franz' shop and becomes friends with him. Eventually, Herbert discovers Franz and tries to warn Chris about who he really is, though Chris ignores him until he's kidnapped along with Peter.
Herbert comes to rescue Chris and Peter, getting into a slow and awkward fight with Franz that ends after quite a bit of time with Franz falling off the steps of his front porch, which results in his death.
Physical Appearance[]
As shown in Herbert's flashback, Franz in his youth had blonde hair and wore the standard SS officer uniform. In his old age, his hair turned gray and he began to walk with the help of a cane, and wore a red sweater over a white shirt, black circular glasses, grey pants, and brown loafers.
Personality[]
In the past, Schlechtnacht was a Nazi concentration camp attendant and guard. As the one in charge of choosing what to do with the captives, he was notorious for his sheer ruthlessness. This is especially shown by how he would casually send some to execution with a stoic expression and happily sentence others to absurd labor. In regards to labor, he is shown to be sadistic as Herbert even specifically notes his cruelty when he would laugh at him when his hands got sticky in the process.
After WWII ended however, Schlechtnacht seems to have receded a bit in his negative presentation. As such, he is overprotective of his secret past, wishing for absolutely no one to learn of it. Despite his nature, he is capable of nonetheless showing affability to others, such as his nurse even though she likely knew enough about him. As shown specifically with Chris, he is also good at coming across as an otherwise inconspicuous citizen.
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Trivia[]
- His fake last name comes from the German phrase for "good day". His real last name, Schlechtnacht, in German means "bad night".
- In the DVD version of the episode, Herbert stuffs Franz's body inside the oven of his home and presumably cremates him.
- The episode "German Guy" is a parody of the novella Apt Pupil written by Stephen King, where a teenager named Todd Bowden befriends the elderly Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander.
External Link[]
- Franz Gutentag - Family Guy Wiki
