I dunno about all of them. The minor soldiers are covered in Shliemann's description. Anyhoo...
Josef and Jakob Hessler, known as the Hessler Brothers in their hometown, were a pair of siblings born and raised in Austria. They looked very similar to one another, although they weren't twins. Josef was the older of the two. The brothers were as different as night and day in their hobbies and pursuits.
Jakob was an amateur boxer in Germany as an adult, and also a wrestler, winning a variety of athletic awards. He also had had a strong enthusiasm for automobiles and aircraft since childhood, and, as a teenager, did part time work in a car garage while attending college. He eventually flunked out, disappointing his parents and earning the scorn of Josef. He was extremely apolitical, not particularly caring much about Nazis or Nazism. When he joined the Wehrmacht it was not of any particular patriotic duty, but simply because it seemed like it'd pay well and help him go places and see the world. He very quickly grew bored with "seeing the world," as he found (or believed) that regardless of race, color or creed, everywhere was pretty much the same as everywhere else, and, in particular, the High Command always seemed to be sending him to places that were hot, dry and dusty.
Josef was the more intellectual brother, although you wouldn't know it given his immense size and monstrous build, identical to his sibling's. Despite having the body for it, he tended to shun athletic pursuits and all interest in mechanical things, instead showing an interest in law. He sought to become an attorney in Germany, and, although he completed college successfully unlike Jakob, he found that few German law firms were interested in hiring him. Through a schoolmate, though, he learned of the Nazi Party and in particular its paramilitary arm, the SS. Unlike Jakob, Josef was extremely political, with strongly held beliefs about his country's future, believing it could, and should, ally itself with Germany. He was fiercely proud that an Austrian served as Germany's chancellor and believed his countryman would lead both nations down a golden road to victory.
Josef joined the SS. After being found to be racially pure, he managed to advance quickly in the ranks. His superiors initially sought to cast him in the role of a soldier, mistaking his immense size for a natural fighting ability. Unfortunately, he disappointed them. But they managed to find a place for him - the SS' secret police, the Gestapo! He enjoyed working in the Gestapo. He found he was quite good at interrogating suspects without needing to harm or even torture them, as his large size simply intimidated them. And when the need did arise to inflict harm, he found that a lack of fighting ability didn't mean he wasn't very strong, and he was known to break bones with one punch. In a straight-up fight, though, he was almost worthless.
The two brothers came to very different ends at different times, both involving the same man, an American named Indiana Jones. Jakob, holding the rank of sergeant and serving as the chief mechanic at the Nazis' dig site in Tanis, encountered Jones in 1936. He and his fellow mechanic, Kruger, had been told to prep the Flying Wing for takeoff. As chief mechanic, Jakob left most of these duties to Kruger. When he emerged from the small hut at the airfield the two men lived in and worked out of, he saw Kruger in the midst of attacking a stranger in a fedora with his wrench. He had no idea who this individual was, but, if the dutiful and fiercely loyal Kruger was attacking him, he had to be trouble.
Jakob, who'd been bored out of his skull, felt the itch to fight returning to his primed boxer's physique. Taking off his hat, shirt and gloves, he approached the fight, eager to get involved, but not hurrying; it seemed Kruger could handle himself. But the American proved resilient. Impressing Jakob, he threw Kruger against the side of the plane, knocking him out. As he clambered up to ambush the pilot, Jakob called to him and challenged him a fistfight. He was going to have fun beating this arrogant little man who'd intruded onto his airfield. He soon found out, though, that Jones was a surprisingly tough man for someone his size, and one who wasn't afraid to fight dirty. But Jakob gave as good as he got, and soon the two men were bloodied and beaten, and both unaware that gasoline was leaking everywhere, or that the plane had started up. Jakob was killed as he stood astride his fallen foe, demanding he get back up and face him, only to turn and see the spinning propeller heading towards him. He had only enough time to process this, and let out part of a startled yell, before the prop annihilated the entire upper portion of his body.
Josef later learned of his brother's death, but the circumstances around it were mostly kept secret due to both the sensitive nature of the operation in Tanis and the Nazis' embarrassment at its total failure. He grieved in his own way. He believed the Wehrmacht's poor handling of the mission (even though he never knew its exact details because Eidel guarded them closely) was to blame for Jakob's death and thus came to severely dislike the regular Army. By 1938, he held the rank of captain in the SS and served as an active Gestapo operative in Berlin. He attended a book-burning rally at the Institute of Aryan Culture where he met and spoke with Hitler as he was leaving. The Leader clapped his hand on the strapping Gestapo captain's shoulder and told him that Germany needed men like him - big and strong but also smart, and expressed great pleasure when Josef told him he was also an Austrian.
The following morning, Ernst Vogel arrived in Berlin from Brunwald on the Austrian border and enlisted the aide of the Gestapo to find two men - Indiana Jones and his father. Josef went with Vogel to the airfield and boarded a zeppelin they suspected the Americans were on. Upon getting on, they split up. Vogel took the passenger area while Josef took the crew area. He encountered Jones after the American had stolen a steward's uniform. Recognizing him from his picture, he threw a punch, missed, and put a hole threw the wall. Jones punched him back, whereupon the glass-jawed Josef immediately collapsed unconscious. Jones stuffed him in with the knocked out steward where he remained for the duration of the trip.
Eventually he and the steward freed themselves. This occurred just as the zeppelin was turning around and the Jonses had made for one of the biplanes kept on board. Rushing into the passenger area, Josef looked for Vogel but couldn't find him, so he called for all loyal Germans to accompany him to recapture the Americans. His posse amounted to the steward in his underwear, another zeppelin crewman who knew how to fly the biplanes, and an overweight elderly World War I ace. The four hurried along after their escaping prey. The steward attacked first, angry at his clothes having been taken, and Henry Jones knocked him off the catwalk railing - almost to his death. He just barely saved himself, thereafter deciding not to participate any further and returning inside.
When Indiana and his father escaped in the first biplane, Josef and his deputized companions decided to take the other. Initially the actual pilot was going to climb in, but with a "Step-aside-there-sonny" manner and clearly drunk, the World War I ace pushed him aside and got in himself, yelling for Josef to come with him. The zeppelin crewman then watched, stupefied, as Josef leaped down into the passenger seat... and promptly punched through the bottom, ending up half in, half out of the biplane, thoroughly stuck. Even as he contemplated going down to help him, he was horrified when the drunken ace detached the aircraft... without starting the engine. Both he and Josef plummeted to earth and died in a fiery explosions.
