People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Hermann von Eichhorn Hermann von Eichhorn German field marshal who governed occupied Ukraine in 1918 and was assassinated in Kiev by a Left SR
- Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff General who directed Germany’s war with Hindenburg and later joined Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
- Rüdiger von der Goltz Rüdiger von der Goltz Freikorps commander who tried to keep Germany's eastern influence in Finland and the Baltic
- Max Hoffmann Max Hoffmann German Eastern Front chief of staff who placed his soldier's boot on the Brest-Litovsk negotiating table
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb Wehrmacht field marshal who directed the encirclement of Leningrad
- Erich Raeder Erich Raeder A Nazi German naval commander who pursued a grand surface fleet
- Waldemar Pabst Waldemar Pabst Freikorps officer who ordered the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in January 1919 and joined the Kapp Putsch
- Maximilian von Weichs Maximilian von Weichs German field marshal who commanded the Stalingrad offensive
- Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Keitel German general who headed the Wehrmacht High Command and was complicit in Nazi war crimes.
- Rudolf Lüters Rudolf Lüters Wehrmacht general who directed anti-Partisan operations
- Franz Halder Franz Halder Chief of the German Army General Staff who planned Barbarossa and later forged the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht"
- Albert Kesselring Albert Kesselring Nazi field marshal who built the Luftwaffe and directed the defence of Italy
- Hermann Hoth Hermann Hoth A German general whose armoured successes were inseparable from crimes on the Eastern Front
- Gotthard Heinrici Gotthard Heinrici The Wehrmacht's defensive specialist on the Eastern Front
- Heinrich von Vietinghoff Heinrich von Vietinghoff The general who represented Germany's surrender in Italy
- Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
- Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Dictator who built a racist war state
- Alfred Jodl Alfred Jodl An operational architect of Nazi Germany's war
- Friedrich Paulus Friedrich Paulus A field commander undone by the collision of orders and reality
- Walter Model Walter Model Hitler's "fireman" who rushed from crisis to crisis on the Eastern Front, the Wehrmacht's most tenacious defensive commander
- Helmuth Weidling Helmuth Weidling The final Berlin commander of a collapsing Reich
- Karl Dönitz Karl Dönitz German naval commander of the U-boat fleet who briefly became head of state after Hitler's death.
- Hermann Göring Hermann Göring A Luftwaffe chief who organized Nazi war and plunder
- Hans von Manteuffel-Szoege Hans Freiherr von Manteuffel-Szoege Baltic Landeswehr strike-troop commander who led the Liepāja coup and fell at Riga
- Dietrich von Hugo Hermann Choltitz Dietrich von Choltitz The German general who surrendered Paris rather than destroy it
- Oskar Dirlewanger Oskar Dirlewanger SS special-unit commander implicated in the Wola massacre
- Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler A principal architect of the Nazi racial state
- Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff A senior Nazi SS coordinator who became a late-war negotiating envoy
- Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising
- Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror