Erik Lehnsherr (Earth-21399)

Early Life
Erik Magnus Lehnsherr was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1938, to Jewish parents who later fled to Poland in an attempt to escape persecution by the Nazis. Unfortunately, they were eventually caught by the Gestapo in 1943 and taken to the infamous Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

As Erik was being dragged away from his parents, his mutation manifested early due to the trauma and he pulled apart the metal gates that would separate them. This display of power was witnessed from afar by Nazi collaborator and HYDRA scientist Nathaniel Essex of Britain, and he was immediately intrigued.

Essex kept Erik in the camp and performed torturous experiments on the boy for a full year to try and extract his mutant powers – one of these tortures was forcing Erik to witness his mother and sister being gassed with Zyklon B. Erik was so traumatized by this particular torture that he killed four nearby guards by crushing their heads inside their helmets.

Freedom
Erik was freed from Auschwitz in 1944 by Soviet troops under the leadership of mercenary Ernst Sablinov. He returned to Germany after the wars' end and was placed in a foster home where he met his future wife: Magda Eisenhardt, a Romani girl and fellow Holocaust survivor. For a while, Erik and Magda settled down in Ernst's home country of Symkaria and had a daughter named Anya together.

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