Jimmy Akingbola as Baron Reiter
BIO:[]
An adversary for Oliver who will appear in the show's prominent flashback scenes.
MONITOR'S NOTES: This is not going Baron Blitzkrieg[]
WHO WHO BARON BLITZKRIEG
Baron Reiter is just a name and will have no affiliation with Baron Blitzkrieg, Guggenheim assure frenzied fans. He also promised he wouldn't later turn into Blitzkrieg. Akingbola's Reiter will play Oliver's nemesis in flashbacks in the coming season, but he will only be Baron Reiter, whom Guggenheim swears is not a Nazi. We wanted a really great villain for Oliver in the flashbacks. We wanted to come out of the gate strong with someone great and we wanted to, quite frankly, cast the best actor. As it turns out, our best actor was African-American.
My problem is, you could not have come up with a different name or character to use instead of a character whose name is the identity of a Nazi criminal? This is just wrong or sloppy writing.