People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Erich Raeder Erich Raeder A Nazi German naval commander who pursued a grand surface fleet
- Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Dictator who built a racist war state
- 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
- 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