People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski The Home Army commander whose decision led to both the uprising and its surrender
- Mark W. Clark Mark W. Clark An Allied commander caught between military gains and civilian cost
- Ferenc Szálasi Szálasi Ferenc Arrow Cross leader installed by Germany as 'Leader of the Nation' in 1944
- Paavo Talvela Paavo Talvela Mannerheim's secret envoy to Berlin who brokered the German-Finnish military pact that led to the Continuation War
- Jacques Doriot Jacques Doriot The Saint-Denis Communist who demanded the popular front first and ended a fascist
- László Baky Baky László Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre
- 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
- Masanobu Tsuji 辻政信 The Kwantung Army staff officer whose Border Defense Guide sparked the Nomonhan Incident
- Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising
- Otto Skorzeny Otto Skorzeny A Nazi commando leader magnified by propaganda
- René Bousquet René Bousquet Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier
- Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror
- Nykyfor Hryhoriv Никифор Григор'єв Ukrainian otaman who took Odesa for the Reds, then turned to revolt and pogrom