| A | B |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | German Emperor 1888-1918 |
| Erich von Ludendorff | In charge of German war policy 1916 - 1918 and later involved in Munich Putsch |
| Paul von Hindenburg | Field Marshall during WWI and later President of Weimar Republic 1925 - 1934 |
| Wilhelm Groener | Important army leader who crucially guaranteed army support to Chancellor Ebert in late 1918 |
| Frederich Ebert | German Chancellor 1918 and then President of Weimar Republic 1919 - 1925 |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Founder of Spartacists and killed by Freikorps in 1919 |
| Wolfgang Kapp | Leader of an unsuccesful right-wing putsch in 1920 |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi Party leader |
| Gustav Stresemann | German Chancellor 1923 and Foreign Minister 1924 - 1929 |
| Kurt von Schleicher | German Chancellor December 1932 - January 1933 and a bitter opponent of von Papen |
| Heinrich Bruning | German Chancellor 1930 - 1932 who failed to adequately deal with the Great Depression |
| Franz von Papen | German Chancellor May - November 1932 who made deal with Hitler helping him into power |
| Ernst Rohm | SA Leader |
| Heinrich Himmler | SS Leader |
| Rudolf Hess | Deputy Fuhrer who flew to Britain in 1941 |
| Martin Bormann | Hitler's Secretary and powerful head of Chancellry |
| Hjalmar Schaacht | Economics Minister and Reichsbank President |
| Hermann Goering | Commander of Luftwaffe, Economics Minister and Hitler's successor |
| Gertrude Scholtz-Klink | Leader of the Nazi Women's organisations |
| Dr Robert Ley | Nazi Worker's leader |
| Josef Goebbels | Minister of Propaganda |
| Albert Speer | Hitler's personal architect and later Minister of Armaments and War Production |
| Baldur von Schirach | Leader of the Hitler Youth |
| Bishop von Galen | Catholic Bishop who criticised the Nazi regime, also known as the 'Lion of Munster' |
| Sophie Scholl | Member of the White Rose student opposition group |
| Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg | Army officer who led the failed July Bomb Plot |
| Reinhard Heydrich | Chief of the SD who administered the Final Solution also known as the 'Blond Beast' |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | German Foreign Minister 1938 - 1945 |