In recent history, Red Skull and his army of Neo-Nazis held Captain America prisoner, during this encounter the Red Skull claimed that Doctor Abraham Erskine was secretly a member of the Nazi Party. The Red Skull went on to explain that Hitler had funded scientists to work for the Allies, so that their discoveries would aid the Axis powers. That the secret plan of the Nazi's for the super soldier project was to create a perfect Aryan race, and as such was why the picked Steve Rogers, a scrawny young man with blond hair and blue eyes. Red Skull also went on to explain that the assassin that killed Erskine was originally meant to kill Rogers after his birth, and that Erskine's death was not the intended. The Red Skull's claims have not been substantiated, and could have possibly been used as mental torture.