Elias Moser

## Biography

Elias Moser was an Austrian soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and father of Truman Moser. He worked in the automobile manufacturing industry after the war and had to use a wheelchair by 1949 following a stroke and he was forced to retire earlier than he wanted.

#### Early Life

Elias was born in Vienna and raised in Linz as his family moved there for his father, Karl's, work. When he was a teenager, his father died leaving a large inheritance to his wife and Elias. His mother died when he was 17 and he then went on to join the Austro-Hungarian army.

#### World War 1 (1914-1918)

Elias served in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1915 until the end of the First World War, serving on the Eastern Front against Russia as part of the Austro-Hungarian 7th Army, mostly fighting in the final years of the war in the Kerensky Offensive and Operation Faustshlag, the last major action on the Eastern Front of the First World War. He was wounded in Ukraine during the operation and returned home to recover. He didn't see any action for the rest of the war as it would end shortly after in November 1918, with the Central Power's defeat and Austria-Hungary being divided into multiple nations after the war.

#### Interwar Peiod (1918-1939)

During the Interwar Period, Elias did multiple odd jobs before working in the automobile industry, eventually becoming a manager at a plant in Austria. He married during this time and like his father only had one son, who he named Truman, in 1932. He became interested in German Nationalism and a united German State, although he did not approve of many beliefs of the Nazi government, including their treatment of Jews. He also was a supporter of the Anchluss.

#### World War 2 and The German Civil War (1939-1946)

As the Second World War came, Elias was too old to be drafted and mostly continued life as normal. When the German Civil War began with Democratic and Communist uprisings across the nation, he volunteered for the newly founded fascist government under Klaus Campbell following the death of Adolf Hitler. He fought against communists in Bavaria as a sniper, killing 4 of them before the Civil War ended.

Elias was horrified when he saw what happened to London with the Gamma Bomb detonation, but kept his opinions quiet outside of his close friends as he feared the punishments he could face speaking out against the government.

#### Post War (1946-1949)

With the war in Europe over and Truman nearly an adult, Elias began to make plans for retirement. He returned home one day to find out that Truman had been drafted into the army. Truman was soon informed he was being sent to German Damascus, and Elias initially believed it would be a good experience for his son, as he was being sent to the capital city of Damascus which was peaceful at the time. However, shortly after Truman was sent there, uprisings began across German Damascus, and the full nation fell into a 3-way war with Truman on the frontlines.

While Truman was on the front, Elias had a stroke which forced him to retire earlier than he had planned and left him confined to a wheelchair. He moved to the mountains at the border of Bavaria and the Sudetenland now living alone after his wife passed from cancer. He and Truman wrote to each other regularity, with Elias giving his son the best advice he could.