| | | | Preludio |
| | Klara | Hitler | Adolf Hitler's mother. |
| | Ida | | Klara's daughter. Deceased. |
| | | | Greater Italy 1943 Anno Fascista XXII |
| | Werner | Schramm | A waffen-ss medical officer (doctor). |
| | Beer | Keg | A nun. |
| | Suora | Marta | A middle-aged nun. Aka: Sister Marta. |
| | Tirassa | | The archbishop. |
| | Benito | Mussolini | An Italian politician. |
| | Suora | Fossette | The newly-christened nun. Angelo's teacher. Aka: Sister Dimples. |
| | Osvaldo | Tomitz | The Archbishop Tirassa's secretary. |
| | Renzo | Leoni | An Italian Jew. One of the protagonists. Aka: Ugo Messner, Stefano Savoca, Don Gino Righetti. |
| | Lloyds | Adriatico | A regular customer of Renzo's father. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | Klara's son. Hausser's 2nd armored corps. |
| | Paul | Hausser | Hitler's boss. |
| | Tranquillo | Loeb | Leoni's brother-in-law. The lawyer. |
| | Iacopo | Soncini | The chief rabbi of St. Andrea. |
| | Claudette | Blum | A Belgian teenager. One of the protagonists. Aka: Claudia Fiori. |
| | Lospinoso | | The police
commissionaire. |
| | Eisenhower | | The U.S. General. |
| | Duno | Brossler | Claudette's friend and neighbor. |
| | Badoglio | | The field marshal. |
| | Herrmann | Brossler | Duno's father. |
| | Steffi | Brossler | Duno's little sister. |
| | Liesl | Brossler | Duno's little sister. |
| | Frieda | Brossler | Duno's mother. |
| | Albert | Blum | Claudette's father. |
| | Paula | Blum | Claudette's mother. |
| | David | Blum | Claudette's brother. |
| | Jacques | Blum | Claudette's sister. |
| | Umberto | Giavinetti | The
brigadier. Albert's acquaintance. |
| | Santino | Cicala | The infantry officer. |
| | Rivka | Brossler | Duno's grandmother. |
| | Lidia | Leoni | Renzo's mother. |
| | Angelo | Soncini | The rabbi's son. Aka: Angelo Santoro. |
| | Rachelle | Loeb | Renzo's sister. |
| | Bianca | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
| | Elena | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
| | Debora | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
| | Susanna | Leoni | Renzo's sister. |
| | Emanuele | Leoni | Renzo's father. |
| | Friedrich | Ebert | A harness maker. |
| | Albert | Kesserling | The field marshal. |
| | Mirella | Soncini | Angelo's mother. The rabbi's wife. Aka: Marisa. |
| | Catarina | Dolcino | The Leonis's landlady. Aka: Rina. |
| | Rinaldo | Miroglio | The acting commandant at the Colle Aurelio border. |
| | Vittorio | Emmanuele III | Rinaldo's boss. |
| | Altira | Soncini | Angelo's little sister. Deceased. |
| | Sara | | The Soncini's maid. |
| | Teresina | | One of Soncini's maids. |
| | Dafne | | One of Soncini's maids. |
| | Nonna | Casutto | Angelo's grandmother. Deceased. |
| | Serafino | Brizzolari | The municipal bureaucrat. |
| | Giacomo | Tura | Lidia's friend. An elderly
Hebrew scribe. |
| | Ferdinando | Dolcino | Rina's dead husband. |
| | Battista | Goletta | A fascist farmer. The man who helped Santino. |
| | Attilio | Goletta | Battista's cousin. |
| | Don Leto | Girotti | A San Mauro priest. |
| | Rosa | Goletta | Battista's wife. |
| | Irmgard | | Werner Schramm's sister. |
| | Professor | Hoche | The professor at Freiburh. |
| | Elsa | Rombach | Werner's wife. |
| | Antonia | Usodimare | The pension house owner. |
| | Ludovico | Usodimare | The pirate-prince. |
| | Klaus | Schramm | Elsa and Werner's son. |
| | Erwin | Schramm | Elsa and Werner's son. |
| | Tercilla | Lovera | The peasant woman that Albert met. |
| | Bettina | Lovera | Tercilla's daughter. |
| | Primo | Lovera | Tercilla's brother. |
| | Pierino | Lovera | Tercilla's son. |
| | Bettina | Lovera | Tercilla's daughter. |
| | Domenico | | Tercilla's lover. |
| | Cesare | Brondello | One of Tercilla's neighbors. |
| | Winter | | A field marshal. |
| | Carmello | | Pierino's friend. |
| | Rosina | Soncini | Angelo's sister. |
| | Nonno | Casutto | Lidia's father. Angelo's grandfather. |
| | Vittorio | Emmanuele II | The King who unified Italy. |
| | Davide | | Sussanah's first love. Deceased. |
| | Erhardt | Von Thadden | The SS-division commander. The schoolmaster. |
| | Ernst | Kunkel | Thadden's staff sergeant. |
| | Artur | Huppenkothen | A
Gestapo police colonel. Thadden's acquaintance. |
| | Helmut | Reinecke | The Captain. Thadden's assistant. |
| | Anneliese | Reinecke | Helmut's wife. |
| | Martina | Von Thadden | Erhardt's wife. |
| | Erna | Huppenkothen | Artur's sister. |
| | Boetto | | An Archbishop in Genoa. |
| | Don | Repetto | Boetto's assistant. |
| | | | Northwestern Italy 1944 Anno Fascista XXIII |
| | Rosina | | Mirelli's daughter. |
| | Adele | Toselli | An elderly housekeeper in San Mauro Rectory. |
| | Maria | Avoni | A German whore. |
| | Bertino | Marrapodi | The official licensee of a state store. |
| | Tullio | Goletta | Attilio's son. |
| | Jakub | Landau | The organizer of Italian CNL. |
| | Nello | Toselli | Adele's nephew. |
| | Dr. | Lundstrom | A doctor. |
| | Mother | Agata | The mother superior. |
| | Karl | Osvaldo | Tomitz's brother. Missing. |
| | Beppino | | Brizzolari's assistant. |
| | Stefania | | A Jewish girl at the orphanage. |
| | Riccardo | | The boy at the orphanage. |
| | Suora | Paola | A nun at Angelo's orphanage. Aka: Sister Scary. |
| | Bruno | Ceretto | Angelo's classmate. |
| | Mario | | Angelo's classmate. |
| | Guiseppe | Farini | Santino's companion. |
| | | | Northwestern Italy 1945 Anno Fascista XXIV |
| | Simon | Henley | A signalman. An Ancona expat. |
| | Major | Salvi | Simon's commander. |
| | Otello | | Simon's interpreter. |
| | PierCarlo | Innocente | Osvaldo's tormentor. |
| | Tonio | | The young jail guard. |
| | Maurizio | | The young jail guard. |
| | Von | Vietinghoff | The Reich's lackluster. A general. |
| | Lavinia | Costa-Valsecchi | An Italian countess. |
