| 1: 1956 | Elizabeth | Gunther | Bernie Gunther's estranged wife |
| | Bernhard | Gunther | Narrator, former German police officer.
Aka Bernie, Bertolt Gründgens |
| | GDR | | Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) |
| | General Erich | Mielke | Deputy head of the Ministry of State Security (GDR, Stasi), former Nazi |
| | FRG | | Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) |
| | Harold | Hennig | German spy killed by Bernie several months in the past |
| | Ann | French | German spy implanted in Britain's MI5, framed by Bernie for Hennig's murder, Bernie's assigned murder target |
| | Stasi | | Ministry for State Security, secret police in GDR |
| | Kripo | | Abbreviation for Kriminalpolizei, criminal police investigation department in Nazi Germany |
| 3 | Friedrich | Korsch | Former police colleague of Bernie's, one of Mielke's Stasi men who hangs Bernie but releases him just before he dies |
| 4 | Karl | | 2nd of Mielke's Stasi officers who "hung" Bernie, aka "Gene Kelly" |
| 6: 1939 | Heidi | Hobbin | Commissioner of the Berlin police, aka Heidi the Horrible |
| | Max | Merten | District court councilor in Berlin |
| | Gen. Reinhard | Heydrich | Gestapo head |
| | Hans-Hendrik | Neumann | Heydrich's adjutant |
| | Arthur | Nebe | Boss of the Kripo (abbrev. for Kriminalpolizei), criminal investigative department |
| | Paul | Werner | Nebe's deputy, state prosecutor from Heidelburg |
| 7 | Martin | Bormann | Hitler's deputy chief of staff |
| | Ernst | Gennat | Bernie's former mentor in the police, suffering from cancer |
| | Albert | Bormann | Martin's brother, another of Hitler's deputy chiefs of staff, chief of the Obersalzberg Chancellery |
| | Herman | Kaspel | Heydrich's spy in Obersalzberg RSD |
| | RSD | | Hitler's personal security guard |
| | Ernst | Kaltenbrunner | Head of the SS & police in Austria, member of the Reichstag |
| | Elizabeth | Kaltenbrunner | Ernst's wife |
| | Gisela | Von Westarp | Countess thought to be having an affair with Kaltenbrunner |
| 9 | Major | Högl | Kaspel's superior officer, deputy head of the RSD in Obersalzberg |
| 11 | Hildegard | Steininger | Bernie's former girlfriend in Berlin |
| | Dr. Karl | Flex | Civil engineer at the Berghof (Hitler's home) who was shot on the terrace |
| | Dr. Karl | Brandt | Hitler's personal physician, an SS major |
| 15 | Bruno | Schenk | First administrator of construction projects at Obersalzberg, section head of P & Z, Bormann's man who served compulsory purchase orders on Bertesgaten homes for Nazi officials |
| 16 | Arthur | Kannenberg | Former Berlin
restaurateur, house manager of the Berghof |
| | Hans | Weber | Lead engineer from P & Z construction company |
| | P & Z | | Polensky & Zollner construction co. |
| 17 | Freda | Kannenberg | Arthur's wife |
| 18 | August | Michahettes | Engineer, head of state construction bureau |
| 19 | | Winkelhof | Butler at Villa Bechstein where Bernie is staying |
| 20 | Rolf | Müller | Local roofer in
Berchtesgaden |
| 23 | Lola | | Italian Jew who manages the house of prostitutes |
| 24 | Rudolf | Hess | Hitler's deputy Führer |
| 26 | Wilhelm | Brückner | Hitler's local adjutant in Obersalzberg |
| 27 | Kehlstein | | Game & bird sanctuary |
| | Johannes | Geiger | Gamekeeper/hunter at Landlerwald forest |
| | Peter | Hayer | Ornithologist/beekeeper at Landlerwald |
| | Udo | Umbros | Assistant hunter at Landlerwald |
| | Johann | Brandner | Local photographer in
Berchtesgaden, sent to Dachau for resisting the sale of his property to the Nazis, later released |
| 30 | Gerdy | Troost | Adviser to Hitler on building, art & design, manager of her deceased husband Paul's architectural firm after his death in 1934 |
| 31 | Hugo | Brückmann | German publisher, helped Bernhard Weiss & his wife escape Germany to Great Britain |
| | Dr. Karl | Wasserstein | Jewish ophthalmologist gone missing in Munich whom Gerdy wants Bernie to find |
| 33 | Dr. | Wachter | Lawyer who rented garage space to Flex for his Maserati |
| 34 | Joseph & Karl | Krauss | Expert safecrackers, incarcerated in Munich's Stadelheim Prison |
| 37 | Johann | Rattenhuber | Head of the RSD, Högl's superior |
| 42 | Max | Amann | Chairman of the Reich Media Chamber, published Hitler's Mein Kampf, 2nd signatory on Bormann's Swiss bank account |
| 53 | Johan | Diesbach | Owner of a salt mining business, with a mine in Rennweg, lives in Kuchl |
| 54 | Frau | Diesbach | Johan's wife |
| | Benno | Diesbach | Johan's son |
| 55 | Pony | | Johan Diesbach's mistress in Munich |
| 57 | Wilhelm | Zander | One of Bormann's aides, from
Saarbrucken |
| | Gotthard | Farber | One of Bormann's aides |
| | Johan Jacob | Diesbach | Berlin paint maker who invented the color Prussian blue in 1706 |
| 58 | Major Hans | Geschke | Gestapo chief in Saarbrücken |
| | Paula | Berge | Johan Diesbach's older sister in Homburg |
| 59 | Richard | Weber | Director of the Karlsberg Brewery in Homburg where Paula Berge worked |
| 68 | Albert | Bormann | Martin's younger brother, chief of Main office, Hitler's private secretary |
| 70: 1956 | Albert | Schlageter | Member of Freikorps, anti-French
saboteur in 1920s, executed after being denounced |
| | Walter | Kadow | Schoolteacher, Freikorps member, accused Martin Bormann of raping his daughter, accused of betraying Schla-geter then killed by Bormann & Höss |
| | Rudolf | Höss | Freikorps member, former student of Kadow, friend of Bormann |
| | | Schmidt | Freikorps member, friend of Bormann, probably real betrayer of Schlageter |
| | Gustav | Landauer | Jewish
communist in the Bavarian Socialist Republic, translated Shakespeare's works into German, killed in Stadelheim Prison in 1919 |
