KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF SAINT BLITZEN

Membership: None named

Base of Operations: Aryan Inferno, Hell

First Appearance: Demon III #48 (June, 1994)

History:  (Demon III #48) - Fuhrer Bergen planned on creating a Fourth Reich, and contacted former Nazi soldier and occultist General von Raddel, who raised the men formerly under his command as zombies, the S.S. Panzerarmee Hell. They were opposed by the demon Etrigan and the Haunted Tank, but Raddel used his mystic pendant to send Etrigan to the Aryan Inferno, home of the Knights of the Order of Saint Blitzen, the patron demons of the Nazis. The Order tied Etrigan to a swastika and flailed him, urging him to join them. They described their patronage of Nazis as elegant, damning souls to Hell by convincing them all their problems could be laid at the feet of other religions and races so they never had to take account of their own lives. Etrigan spat at them, telling them he had too much tase to consider their offer. General J.E.B. Stuart of the Haunted Tank went to the underworld to seek out Etrigan. Stuart freed him, and together they ran roughshod on the Nazi demons. Etrigan told the head of the Order he knew nothing about true demon hate because he was a pitiful creature full of petty spite, and executed him for daring to lay hands on a rhymer.