| Pro | Mildred | Fish-Harnack | Protagonist. A teacher, author, resistance fighter, and spy. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | The Nazi leader. The chancellor. |
| | Arvid | Harnack | Mildred's lover. |
| | Greta | Lorke-Kuckhoff | Mildred's friend. Adam's wife. |
| | Sara | Weitz | Mildred's rich student. |
| | Martha | Dodd | The ambassador's daughter. Martha's friend. |
| | | | Part 1 |
| 1 | John | Commons | The renowned economist. |
| | Walt | Whitman | The American poet. |
| | Bob | Fish | Mildred's brother. |
| | | | The Friday Nighters - Professor Collins's renowned group. |
| | Falk | Harnack | Arvid's brother. |
| | Inge | Harnack | Arvid's sister. |
| | Angela | Harnack | Arvid's sister. |
| | Wulf | | Inge's son. |
| | Claus | | Inge's son. |
| | Dietrich | Bonhoeffer | A Lutheran minister. Arvid's cousin. |
| | Mutti | Clara | Arvid's mother. |
| 2 | Hans | Fish | Mildred's brother. |
| | Ursula | | An actress. Mildred's friend. |
| | Leopold | Jessner | A renowned producer and director of
German expressionist. |
| | Adam | Kuckhoff | Jessner's head dramaturge. Greta's husband. |
| | Hans | Otto | Marie's new husband. Adam's brother-in-law. |
| | Frau | Kellerman | Greta's landlord. |
| 3 | Natan | Weitz | Sarah's brother. |
| | Amalie | Von Riechmann | Sarah's sister. The baron's wife. |
| | Wilhelm | Von Riechmann | Amalie's husband. The baron. |
| | Dieter | Koch | Sarah's lover. An editor. |
| | Sylvie | Von Riechmann | Amalie's daughter. |
| | Leah | Von Riechmann | Amalie's daughter. |
| | Mrs. | Gruen | The Weitz's housekeeper. |
| | Franz | Von Pappen | The chancellor. |
| 4 | Johannes | Auerbach | A sculptor. Inge's former husband. |
| | Egmont | Zechlin | A history professor. Arvid's new friend. |
| | Dr. Else | Kienle | The guest speaker at the podium. |
| 5 | Marie | Viehmeyer | Adam's first wife. |
| | Gertrud | Viehmeyer | Marie's sister. Adam's 2nd wife. |
| | Erwin | Piscator | One of the most skilled producers and directors. |
| | Bertolt | Brecht | A playwright. Adam's chief rival. |
| | Helene | Weigel | Brecht's wife. |
| | Kerstin | | Greta's friend. |
| | Felix | Henrich | Greta's old schoolmate. |
| 6 | Frau | Schmidts | Mildred's neighbor. |
| | Friedrich | Schonemann | One of Mildred's former professors. Mildred's workmate. |
| | Paul | Thomas | Mildred's student. An army. |
| | Gunther | Weisenborn | A famous author. |
| 7 | President | Hindenburg | The current president. |
| 8 | Julia | Henrich | Felix's wife. |
| | Dr. | Mannheim | The political professor. Greta's employer. |
| | Josef | | One of Greta's political friends. |
| 9 | Wolfgang | Havemann | Arvid's step-nephew. |
| | Gustav | Havemann | Inge's new husband. Wolfgang's father. |
| | Karl | Behrens | One of the members of the discussion group. |
| 10 | General | Ludendorff | A German politician. One of Hitler's colleagues. |
| 11 | Karl | Bonhoeffer | Dietrich's father. A neurologist and psychiatrist. |
| | Rowohlt | | Arvid's publisher. |
| | Reverend | Turner | The reverend at American church. |
| | Paul | Massing | Arvid's ARPLAN colleague. |
| | Professor | Lenz | The co-founder of ARPLAN. |
| | | | Part 2 |
| 12 | Max | Reinhardt | The celebrated Jewish filmmaker. |
| | Anna | Klug | Greta's companion. |
| | Franz | Ulbricht | The new Staats theater. |
| | Armin-Gerd | | Marie and Adam's son. |
| 13 | Ernst | Kantorowicz | A bookshop owner. |
| | Alfred | Panofsky | Natan's boss. A banker. |
| 14 | Samson | Knoll | A student from the University of Berlin. |
| | George | Messersmith | The U.S. consul. Mildred's friend. |
| | George | Gordon | The embassy counselor. |
| | Dr. | Stetcher | The student adviser. |
| | Joseph | Goebells | The Reich minister of propaganda. |
| | Heinrich | Heine | A 19th-century poet. |
| 15 | Hellen | Keller | The famous blind and deaf American
author. |
| | Elisabeth | Bergner | Otto's co-star. |
| | William Ellery | Leonard | Greta's friend. Mildred's mentor. |
| | Clara | Leiser | Greta's friend. |
| | Franziska | Heberle | Greta's friend. |
| 16 | Frau | Koch | Dieter's father. |
| 17 | Carl | Sandburg | Martha's friend. |
| | Thornton | Wilder | Martha's friend. |
| | Bill | Dodd Jr. | Martha's brother. |
| | William | Dodd | Martha's father. President Roosevelt's ambassador. |
| | Sigrid | Schultz | The Tribune's correspondent-in-chief for Central Europe. |
| | Sigrid | Dodd | Martha's mother. |
| 18 | Joseph | Stalin | The Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| 19 | Louis | Ferdinand | The Prince of Prussia. |
| | Ernst | Hanfstaengl | The German foreign press chief. Aka: Putzi. |
| | Boris | Vinogradov | The 1st secretary of Soviet Embassy. |
| | Rudolf | Diels | The young Gestapo chief. |
| | Quentin | Reynolds | A journalist. |
| | Anna | Rath | The Aryan girl who has a
Jew for a fiancé. |
| 20 | Hans | Panofsky | Alfred's children. |
| | Ruth | Panofsky | Alfred's children. |
| | Norman | Ebbutt | The correspondent at London Times. |
| | Hans | Thomsen | A liaison between chancellery and foreign ministry. |
| | Elmina | Rangabe | The Greek Minister's daughter. |
| 21 | Jan | Kiepura | The polish singer. |
| 22 | Captain | Rohm | Hermann Goring's officer. |
| | Hermann | Goring | The Reichstag leader. |
| 24 | Mrs. | Dodd | Martha's mother. |
| | Comrade | Boris | Martha's friend. |
| | Franzi | Von Pappen | The chancellor's son. Martha's friend. |
| | | | Part Three |
| 25 | Gerhard | Hinze | Otto's co-activist and actor. |
| 26 | Karl | Mienholz | A senior editor. |
| 27 | Douglas | MacArthur | The U.S. Army Chief of Staff. |
| 28 | Rudolf | Heberle | Franziska's husband. Arvid's colleague. |
| | Harro | Schulze-Boysen | Franziska's cousin. |
| | Von | Tirpitz | The renowned Grand Admiral. |
| | Edgar | Schulze | Harro's father. |
| | Phillip Zu | Eulenburg-Hertefeld | The prince. The grandfather of Harro's wife. |
| 30 | Thomas | Wolfe | The American novelist. |
| | Max | Tau | The German-Norwegian author and editor. |
| | John | Seig | Adam's friend. The former editor of the Rote Fahne. |
| | Bell | Fromm | A German journalist. |
| 31 | Max | Perkins | Thomas Wolfe's editor. |
| | Alexander | Hirschfield | Arvid's old friend. The ARPLAN adviser. |
| 32 | Adolf | Grimme | The former social democratic politician. |
| | Clara | Leiser | Greta's friend. |
| 34 | Emil | Kortmann | Mildred's student. |
| | Heinrich | Himmler | The SS-Reichsfuhrer. |
| 35 | Wolfgang | Furstner | The director of Olympic Village. |
| | Baldur | Von Schirach | The leader of Hitler Youth. |
| | Jesse | Owens | An American Athlete. |
| | Albert | Speer | The Olympic Village architect. |
| | Ralph | Metcalfe | An athlete. |
| | Foy | Draper | An athlete. |
| 36 | Ruth | Levinsohn | Greta's new landlady. |
| | James | Murphy | A professional translator. Levinsohn's tenant. |
| | Sophie | Sieg | John Seig's wife. |
| | Ivan | Maisky | The Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom. |
| | David Lloyd | George | The former prime minister. |
| | Dr. | Murphy | Greta's new employer. |
| | Mary | Murphy | Dr. Murphy's wife. |
| | Daphne | French | Dr. Murphy's secretary. |
| 37 | Mr. | Albrecht | The groundskeeper. |
| 38 | Hans | Hartenstein | Greta and Adam's marriage witness. |
| | Adolfe | Grimme | Greta and Adam's marriage witness. |
| 39 | Cordel | Hull | The secretary of the state. |
| | Helmut | Firsch | The antifascist who was sentenced to death. |
| | Otto | Meissner | Konstantin Von Neurath. The Reich minister. |
| | President | Roosevelt | The U.S. president. |
| 40 | Ule | Kuckhoff | Greta and Adam's son. |
| | Hugh | Wilson | Mr. Dodd's successor. |
| | Sergei | Bessonov | Arvid's ARPLAN colleague. |
| | Louise | Heath | The chairwoman of the American Women's club. |
| | Donald | Heath | The new 1st secretary of the state. Louise's husband. |
| | Donald | Heath Jr. | Donald and Louise's son. |
| | Alfred | Stearn | Martha's fiancé. |
| 41 | Hans | Von Dohnanyi | Arvid's cousin. |
| | Neville | Chamberlain | Hitler's companion from Great Britain. |
| | Benito | Mussolini | Hitler's companion from Italy. |
| | Eduard | Daladier | Hitler's companion from France. |
| 42 | Herschel | Grynszpan | The boy who shot a diplomat. |
| | Ernst | Von Rath | The German diplomat the Grynszpan shot. Deceased. |
| | Ericka | Von Brockdorff | Adam and Greta's neighbor. |
| | Heinrich | George | The director. |
| | Walther | Funk | The Reich minister of economics. |
| 43 | Ernst | Wagner | The buyer of Weitz's house. |
| | Jakob | Weitz | The banker. Sara and Natan's father. |
| 44 | Marion | Dodd | Martha's sister. |
| | Bob | Dodd | Martha's brother. |
| | Harriette | | Mildred's sister. |
| 45 | Jon | Cutting | Adam's friend. A member of the British press crops. |
| | Saskia | Von Brockdorff | Erika's daughter. |
| 46 | Neville | Henderson | A British Ambassador. |
| 48 | King | Leopold | The King of Belgium. |
| | Herbert | Engelsing | The executive producer at Tobias Film company. |
| | Libertas | Schulez-Boysen | Harro's wife. |
| 49 | Winston | Churchill | Neville Chamberlain's
successor. |
| | Lord | Halifax | The foreign secretary. |
| | Alexander | Erdberg | The third secretary. |
| 50 | Annemarie | Hannemann | The student Sara stole her identity from. |
| 51 | Kurt | Schumacher | The long-time member of Harro's resistance circle. |
| | Hans | Coppi | Adam's colleague. |
| 52 | Egmont | Zechlin | Arvid's long-time friend. |
| | Nadia | | The businessman's wife. Greta and Mildred's old acquaintance. |
| | Anfisa | Ivavnova | Nadia's daughter. |
| | Ribbentrop | | The foreign minister. |
| 53 | Reinhard | Heydrich | The chief of Reich security. |
| | Anna | Hirsch | The young wife who was assigned to Sara's apartment. |
| | Elke | Hirsch | Anna's daughter. |
| | Levi | Hirsch | Anna's husband. |
| 54 | Kent | | Adam and Arvid's ally. |
| 55 | Leland | Morris | The highest ranking
American diplomat. |
| | Joachim | Von Ribbentrop | The foreign minister. |
| | Adolf | Von Harnack | Arvid's uncle. |
| 56 | Andrei | | A Romanian communist. |
| | Liane | Berkowitz | Sara's friend. |
| 57 | | | Konzentrationslager Posen - The 1st concentration camp in Poland. |
| | | | Part 4 |
| 58 | Ottora Maria | Douglas | The countess. Liberta's sister. |
| | Carl Ludvig | Douglas | The count. Ottora's husband. |
| | Marta | Wolser-Husemann | A young communist actress. |
| 59 | Oberin Anne | Weider | The matron. |
| | Manfred | Roeder | A prosecutor. |
| | Dr. | Schwarz | The defense attorney. |
| | Dr. Rudolf | Behse | The defense attorney. |
| | Sophie | Poznanska | The Polish Cipherer. |
| | Gertrud | | Mildred's cellmate. |
| 60 | Cato | Bontjes Van Beek | The pottery artist. |
| | Friedrich | Rehme | Liane's fiancé. |
| 61 | Reverend | Poelchau | The reverend from jail. |
| 62 | Irena | Berkowitz | Liane's daughter. |
