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What happens when you mix Marlene Dietrich, Florence Nightingale and Coco Channel? How about the Fatherland’s favorite actress, Gretta Von Fleischessen, AKA Nurse Septis!

Before Gretta followed a calling into medicine, she was Nazi Germany’s leading star of the silver screen. With blockbuster movies like The Blitzkrieg Follies of 1939, The Gay Gooses Steppers and Ich Singe Im Der Regen, Von Fleischenessen swept Europe like a firestorm. Every where there still stood a cinemahouse, movie goers could see the Deutschland Darling in musicals, screwball comedies and melodramas. But after more than 20 films, der Fuehrer was calling on another line…

Persuaded by long time romantic interest Hermann Gehring, Von Fleischenessen directed her attentions to the war effort. She enlisted in the Reich's army and worked as a corps nurse.

One night during an Allied air raid, her camp was hit. Most of the medical staff was killed. Facing what she might truely be made of, Von Fleischenessen took command of the medical efforts. But Gretta herself was injured. Bottles of her personal eau de toilte Xyklon Be Mein exploded in her trailer, sending flaming shard of glass into her body. Ignoring the first tenant of medicine to do no harm, she operated on the injuries herself. The resulting damage ended any hopes that the once-beauty queen had of re-igniting a movie career after the war. The pin-up darling of the troops was left disfigured.

The soldiers were horrified; the Deutschland Darling of the movies had gone mad! Night after night, the insane nurse experimented on the ones unlucky enough to remain alive. Because of her propensity for not sterilizing the surgical equipment, surviving camp members cruely nicknamed her Nurse Septis.

After the war Septic disappeared, unseen by the public for many years, with only rumored sightings of a resurected old Natch Klub act on steam liners or fenced compounds in the jungles of South America.

Nurse Septis eventually made it into the States posing as a talent agent during the influx of the avant guarde New Wave cinema movement in the late 1950’s. She eventually blended in with the Societi D’praved and quietly continued her work into pain and suffering. It was there she met her secret love, Dr. Deadly.