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- Paul von Hindenburg Paul von Hindenburg German field marshal in World War I and president of the Weimar Republic
- 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
- Wilhelm Groener Wilhelm Groener General who struck the 1918 secret pact with Ebert that preserved the officer corps and later served Weimar as defence and interior minister
- Gustav Noske Gustav Noske SPD defence minister who said “someone has to be the bloodhound” and used the Freikorps to crush the left risings of 1919
- 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
- Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
- Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Commander of the Waffen-SS IX Mountain Corps who led the German forces in the siege of Budapest and refused to surrender
- 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.