The Munich Affair Characters

Munich detective inspector who investigates Geli Raubal's death, uncovers evidence of murder, and is suspended. After his family is endangered, he becomes a resistance operative and would-be assassin of Hitler.

Arc: He moves from by-the-book detective to off-book investigator, then to saboteur and assassin. He kills Hitler in 1945 and escapes with Erich von der Haas.

• Amalie Bauer — his wife
• Maxine Bauer — his daughter
• Ridley Bauer — his son
• Selig Geiger — his father-in-law
• Marina Geiger — his mother-in-law
• Fritz Gerlich — ally
• Erich von der Haas — resistance partner
• Peter Helldorff — assistant who betrays him
• Emil Maurice — informant
• Adolf Hitler — his target
• Monica Bauer — his great-granddaughter

Nazi leader and later Reichskanzler who controls and kills Geli Raubal, exploits the Reichstag fire, orders persecution and genocide, and stages a fake suicide. He is obsessed with obedience, image, and vengeance.

Arc: He rises from Munich agitator to dictator, survives assassination attempts, and is ultimately shot by Thomas Bauer after trying to escape by plane.

• Geli Raubal — his half niece and victim
• Angela Raubal (mother) — his half-sister
• Eva Braun — his mistress and wife
• Rudolf Hess — his aide
• Joseph Goebbels — his propaganda minister
• Heinrich Himmler — his SS leader
• Hermann Göring — his subordinate
• Martin Bormann — his aide
• Thomas Bauer — his assassin
• Erich von der Haas — his enemy

Nearly sixty-year-old history professor, blind in one eye, divorced, childless after her daughter Annabelle's death. She receives Francis Linderman's materials and travels Europe to research a plot that killed Hitler in 1945.

Arc: She pursues the missing sixth item, witnesses Franklin Linderman's murder, and recovers the Geli Raubal film reel hidden in Annabelle's jacket.

• Tyson — her brother
• Annabelle — her deceased daughter
• Francis Linderman — her source
• Franklin Linderman — interview subject killed
• Monica Bauer — ally
• Jenny — secretly gives her the film

SS leader and chief of German Police, Hitler's enforcer who raids Gerlich's office, threatens him, and oversees persecution and extermination. He establishes offices against homosexuality and abortion.

Arc: He remains a loyal, ruthless Nazi to the end, ordered to use euphemisms for genocide and later to close Sobibor.

• Adolf Hitler — his Führer
• Martin Bormann — colleague
• Joseph Goebbels — colleague
• Fritz Gerlich — adversary

Nazi propaganda minister who controls the narrative, proposes cover stories, and celebrates Hitler. He manipulates the press and rationalizes genocide as evacuation.

Arc: He crafts slogans, introduces Hitler, and remains in the bunker until the end, witnessing the marriage and wrapping Eva's body.

• Adolf Hitler — his Führer
• Heinrich Himmler — colleague
• Martin Bormann — colleague
• Magda Goebbels — his wife

Nazi leader, Prussian Interior Minister, and Hitler's subordinate who helps plan the Reichstag fire crackdown and advises on antisemitic laws. He is later declared a traitor by Hitler.

Arc: He rises as a powerful Nazi, urges Hindenburg to appoint Hitler, and is stripped of powers and ordered arrested near the end.

• Adolf Hitler — his Führer
• Martin Bormann — rival
• Paul von Hindenburg — trusted by him
• Franz von Papen — hosted his meeting

Hitler's personal secretary and aide who carries orders, reports on investigations, and enforces the Führer's will. He is present for the cover-up and the bunker endgame.

Arc: He serves Hitler from the Brown House through the bunker, witnesses the marriage, and helps wrap Eva's body.

• Adolf Hitler — his Führer
• Rudolf Hess — his superior
• Joseph Goebbels — colleague
• Heinrich Himmler — colleague

Hitler's personal secretary and adjutant who arranges the cabaret visit, manages cover-ups, and stands by Hitler during the autopsy. He is loyal and often shields Hitler from the worst.

Arc: He remains Hitler's aide, objects to some propaganda plans, and is named as involved in the Geli cover-up.

• Adolf Hitler — his Führer
• Martin Bormann — his assistant
• Joseph Goebbels — colleague
• Ilse Hess — his wife

Munich police chief and later Gestapo chief who obstructs Bauer, arrests him, and cooperates with the Nazis. He is confronted by Bauer at the bunker.

Arc: He moves from police chief to Gestapo official, is shot in the foot by Bauer, and is allowed to go.

• Thomas Bauer — subordinate he arrests
• Adolf Hitler — serves him
• Peter Helldorff — receives information from him

Hitler's personal lawyer and NSDAP counsel who accompanies Himmler to Gerlich's office and threatens a lawsuit. He brings legal intimidation to silence the press.

Arc: He serves as a legal enforcer for the regime.

• Heinrich Himmler — accompanies him
• Fritz Gerlich — threatens him
• Adolf Hitler — his lawyer

Dachau lagerkommandant and Himmler's classmate who orders the prisoners to build barracks and has Karl Litten beaten to death.

Arc: He enforces control and silences dissent.

• Heinrich Himmler — his classmate
• Karl Litten — has him beaten

Journalist and editor in chief of Der Illustrierte Sonntag, later Der Gerade Weg, who investigates Hitler and the Geli Raubal cover-up. He is a Catholic and relentless anti-Nazi publisher.

Arc: He publishes exposés, is attacked and arrested, refuses to recant, and is executed at Dachau on the Night of the Long Knives.

• Sophie Gerlich — his wife
• Thomas Bauer — ally
• Peter Helldorff — betrayer
• Heinrich Himmler — adversary
• Gunther — deputy editor
• Martin Gruber — friend

Medical student and former Abwehr signals-intelligence officer, later resistance operative and Bauer's partner. He provides technical expertise and plans assassination attempts.

Arc: He helps Bauer from the Brown House break-in through sabotage and plots. After his family is murdered in Sobibor, he confronts Hitler but cannot kill him, then escapes by plane.

• Thomas Bauer — partner
• Lars von der Haas — his brother
• Annika von der Haas — his sister-in-law
• Dahlia von der Haas — his niece
• Diederik von der Haas — his father
• Verena von der Haas — his mother
• Adolf Hitler — his target

Hitler's half niece and companion, an aspiring singer who wants her own life and to marry her vocal instructor. She is controlled by Hitler and killed in his flat.

Arc: She performs, defies Hitler, reveals her pregnancy, and is shot. Her death sparks the investigation and the later film reel evidence.

• Adolf Hitler — her half uncle and killer
• Angela Raubal (mother) — her mother
• Emil Maurice — loved her
• Thomas Bauer — investigates her death
• Father Johann Pant — knew her as a girl

Thomas Bauer's great-granddaughter, a master's student in international studies who helps continue the research. She meets Professor Robbins and later Eleanor.

Arc: She passes instructions, helps Eleanor evade surveillance, and arranges the meeting with Franklin Linderman to reveal the film reel.

• Thomas Bauer — her great-grandfather
• Eleanor Robbins — ally
• Francis Linderman — researched his materials
• Franklin Linderman — showed him journals

Thomas Bauer's Jewish wife, a teacher and mother of Maxine and Ridley. She is fired under the civil-service law and taken into protective custody.

Arc: She is rescued by Bauer, flees Germany with the family, and later lives near Chicago, writing to Bauer until his eventual return.

• Thomas Bauer — her husband
• Selig Geiger — her father
• Marina Geiger — her mother
• Maxine Bauer — her daughter
• Ridley Bauer — her son

Bauer's young kriminalassistent who joins the investigation, later betrays Bauer and Gerlich, and is promoted. He is remorseful but fear-driven.

Arc: He helps Bauer, then cooperates with the Nazis, keeps a sixth film reel, and is executed on the Night of the Long Knives.

• Thomas Bauer — betrayed
• Fritz Gerlich — betrayed
• Rebecca Helldorff — his wife
• Franklin Linderman — his son

Hitler's former chauffeur and bodyguard, part Jewish, who loved Geli and is haunted by memories. He becomes Bauer's reluctant informant.

Arc: He resists, then gives Bauer inside information about Hitler, Geli, and the Brown House. He remains trapped in the party.

• Adolf Hitler — his former employer
• Geli Raubal — loved her
• Thomas Bauer — informant
• Julius Schreck — replaced him

Hitler's mistress and later wife, a party girl and heavy drinker who feels isolated and defines herself by Hitler. She unwittingly hosts Bauer in Hitler's flat.

Arc: She marries Hitler in the bunker and dies by cyanide beside him.

• Adolf Hitler — her husband
• Thomas Bauer — met him as Henrik Becker
• Erich von der Haas — charmed her as Alfred Otto

Amalie's wealthy Jewish father, a department-store owner who initially dismisses Hitler as a blowhard. He is beaten and paraded by the SA, then hospitalized.

Arc: He realizes his error, urges his family to leave, and thanks Bauer for saving Amalie.

• Amalie Bauer — his daughter
• Marina Geiger — his wife
• Thomas Bauer — his son-in-law
• Maxine Bauer — his granddaughter
• Ridley Bauer — his grandson

Amalie's mother and Selig's wife, who tries to keep family peace and cares for the grandchildren. She is present at the hospital and border escape.

Arc: She supports Amalie and Selig through the persecution and flight.

• Selig Geiger — her husband
• Amalie Bauer — her daughter
• Thomas Bauer — her son-in-law
• Maxine Bauer — her granddaughter
• Ridley Bauer — her grandson

Thomas and Amalie's daughter, called Mouse in letters. She grows up in the U.S. and plays violin.

Arc: She appears as a child in Munich and later as a teenager in Downers Grove.

• Thomas Bauer — her father
• Amalie Bauer — her mother
• Ridley Bauer — her brother
• Selig Geiger — her grandfather
• Marina Geiger — her grandmother

Thomas and Amalie's son, who grows up in the U.S. and loves baseball. He is a child during the Munich years.

Arc: He appears as a young child and later as a teenager.

• Thomas Bauer — his father
• Amalie Bauer — his mother
• Maxine Bauer — his sister
• Selig Geiger — his grandfather
• Marina Geiger — his grandmother

Man who sent Eleanor Robbins letters, notes, newspapers, and journals for a book, then died before they met. Later claimed to have been murdered, not a suicide.

Arc: His materials start Eleanor's investigation. His death is central to the present-day mystery.

• Eleanor Robbins — contacted her
• Franklin Linderman — his grandfather
• Jenny — connected to the film

Son of Peter Helldorff and grandfather of Francis, who meets Eleanor in Munich and confirms the sixth envelope was a film reel. He is assassinated during the meeting.

Arc: He explains his father's role and asks for humane treatment, then is shot dead.

• Peter Helldorff — his father
• Francis Linderman — his grandson
• Eleanor Robbins — interview subject
• Jenny — driver and protector

Woman who follows Eleanor in Vienna and later drives Franklin Linderman in Munich. She secretly gives Eleanor the film reel at St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Arc: She protects Eleanor, drives her to the airport after Franklin's murder, and tells her to go.

• Franklin Linderman — driver and protector
• Eleanor Robbins — secretly gives her the film
• Monica Bauer — helped arrange the meeting

Eleanor's younger brother and an attorney near St. Louis who warns her to keep her research secret and urges her to come home.

Arc: He remains worried for Eleanor's safety throughout her European investigation.

• Eleanor Robbins — his sister

Eleanor's daughter, who died of cancer six years before the present-day chapters. She gave Eleanor the beige corduroy jacket that later hides the film reel.

Arc: Her death shapes Eleanor's grief. The jacket becomes key evidence.

• Eleanor Robbins — her mother

Fritz Gerlich's wife, who types his work, fears his obsession, and confronts him about the danger. She is also remembered as Sophie Botzenhart accepting his proposal.

Arc: She warns Fritz, survives the attack on their home, and later receives his blood-spattered eyeglasses after his execution.

• Fritz Gerlich — her husband

Old friend of Bauer and a morgue doctor who reveals the false autopsy and evidence that Geli was struck and shot. He refuses to sign the bogus report.

Arc: He risks himself to tell Bauer the truth about the cover-up.

• Thomas Bauer — old friend
• Franz Gurtner — ordered the body moved
• Heinrich Miiller — his chief

Hitler's live-in housekeeper who finds Geli's death and initially follows Georg's lead. She later admits to Bauer that she heard Hitler and Geli argue and that Geli treated her like a friend.

Arc: She moves from coached silence to partial cooperation with Bauer.

• Georg Winter — her husband
• Adolf Hitler — her employer
• Geli Raubal — friend
• Rudolf Hess — called him after the death

Hitler's live-in servant who found Geli's body and called Hess. He gives a prepared account and controls the interview.

Arc: He sticks to the cover story and cuts Anni off when she nearly reveals more.

• Anni Winter — his wife
• Adolf Hitler — his employer
• Geli Raubal — found her body
• Rudolf Hess — called him

Owner of the Franz Kabarett who accommodates Hitler and later denies remembering Geli's visit. Bauer intimidates him into revealing that Hitler and Geli left right after her performance.

Arc: He moves from evasive denial to giving a key piece of evidence under pressure.

• Thomas Bauer — interrogated by him
• Adolf Hitler — his guest
• Geli Raubal — invited her to sing

Priest and Hitler confidant who writes antisemitic pieces, steals sketches of Geli, and is later escorted to his death. He tells Bauer about Hitler's letter to Geli.

Arc: He blackmails and deceives, is cornered by Bauer, and is killed at Dachau.

• Adolf Hitler — his confidant
• Thomas Bauer — interrogated by him
• Franz Xaver Schwarz — dealt with him

Hitler's chauffeur and bodyguard, a longtime loyalist who drives Hitler and Geli from the cabaret. He later drives away the trash from Geli's room.

Arc: He remains a loyal servant through the cover-up.

• Adolf Hitler — his chauffeur and bodyguard
• Emil Maurice — replaced him

Wealthy nationalist patron who bankrolled Hitler, gave him the Mercedes, and hoped he would marry her daughter Lotte. She calls him Wölfchen.

Arc: She remains a motherly patron and advises Hitler after Geli's death.

• Adolf Hitler — his patron and friend
• Lotte Bechstein — her daughter

Hitler's half-sister and Geli's mother, who served as Hitler's housekeeper and later cared for his Berchtesgaden chalet. She assumed Hitler and Geli would marry.

Arc: She chooses Geli's burial place in Vienna and is used by Goebbels in the burial negotiation.

• Adolf Hitler — her half-brother
• Geli Raubal — her daughter
• Joseph Goebbels — negotiated with her grief
• Father Johann Pant — family confessor

Hitler's father, twenty-three years older than Klara. He is mentioned in Eleanor's reflections on the family parallels.

Arc: He appears only in background family history.

• Klara Hitler — his wife
• Adolf Hitler — his son

Hitler's mother, twenty-three years younger than Alois and called him Uncle Alois. She is mentioned in Eleanor's reflections.

Arc: She appears only in background family history.

• Alois Hitler — her husband
• Adolf Hitler — her son

Hitler devotee who provided his flat at Prinzregentenplatz 16. She and Hugo purchased the furnishings.

Arc: She appears as a background patron of Hitler.

• Adolf Hitler — provided his flat
• Hugo Bruckmann — her husband

Publishing magnate who helped furnish Hitler's flat with Elsa Bruckmann.

Arc: He appears as a background patron of Hitler.

• Elsa Bruckmann — his wife
• Adolf Hitler — helped furnish his flat

Bavarian minister of justice, sympathetic to the Nazis, who orders Geli's body moved and helps suppress the investigation.

Arc: He remains a complicit official.

• Adolf Hitler — nationalist ally
• Martin Bormann — spoke with him
• Dr. Elie Achterberg — ordered the body moved

Fritz Gerlich's deputy editor who investigates the moved body, helps prepare Der Gerade Weg, and escapes the SS raid.

Arc: He stays loyal to Gerlich and follows his order to flee.

• Fritz Gerlich — his editor
• Martin Gruber — colleague

Old friend and editor in chief of the Munich Post who warns Gerlich of imminent danger before the SS raid.

Arc: He tries to protect Gerlich.

• Fritz Gerlich — friend

Munich detective and later inspector who jokes with Bauer, carries out Miller's orders, and mocks Bauer after his demotion.

Arc: He remains a hostile colleague aligned with the chief.

• Thomas Bauer — colleague
• Heinrich Miiller — receives orders from him

Munich detective who jokes with Bauer and sinks in his chair when work appears. He is a minor colleague in the detectives' room.

Arc: He remains a background police colleague.

• Thomas Bauer — colleague

Chief inspector's assistant who delivers Bauer's assignment slip and interrupts his interview to fetch him for the chief.

Arc: She remains a minor police functionary.

• Thomas Bauer — delivers his assignment
• Heinrich Miiller — her chief

Rudolf Hess's wife, present with him at the Franz Kabarett. She is a minor background figure.

Arc: She appears only in the cabaret scene.

• Rudolf Hess — her husband

Hermann Göring's sickly wife, present with him at the Franz Kabarett. She is a minor background figure.

Arc: She appears only in the cabaret scene.

• Hermann Göring — her husband

Heinrich Himmler's mistress and personal assistant, present with him at the Franz Kabarett. She is a minor background figure.

Arc: She appears only in the cabaret scene.

• Heinrich Himmler — his mistress and personal assistant

Joseph Goebbels's fiancée and later wife, present at the cabaret and later begging Hitler not to commit suicide. She is devoted to Hitler.

Arc: She marries Goebbels and remains a loyal Nazi wife.

• Joseph Goebbels — her husband
• Adolf Hitler — devoted follower

Hitler's personal photographer who chats with Stempfle at the Brown House and introduced Eva Braun to Hitler.

Arc: He remains a background Nazi associate.

• Adolf Hitler — his photographer
• Bernhard Stempfle — chatting with him
• Eva Braun — her former employer

American author of The International Jew, the only American treated favorably in Mein Kampf. His book is visible in Hitler's office.

Arc: He appears as an ideological reference.

• Adolf Hitler — mutual admiration
• Bernhard Stempfle — edited passages about him

NSDAP treasurer and Hitler's trusted financial adviser who gives Stempfle money for the Geli sketches and receives four drawings.

Arc: He handles party funds and the sketch recovery.

• Adolf Hitler — his financial adviser
• Bernhard Stempfle — gives him funds

Detained elected Reichstag member at Dachau who demands release to attend the Enabling Act vote. He is beaten to death by an SS guard.

Arc: He stands up and is killed for it.

• Fritz Gerlich — raises a hand in support
• Hilmar Wackerle — orders silence

Dachau prisoner and Gerlich's bunkmate who is exhausted by hard labor and tells him of the coming Enabling Act vote.

Arc: He survives as a broken prisoner.

• Fritz Gerlich — his bunkmate

Prussian police official under Göring who arrives at the Reichstag fire, reports the preliminary observation that one man set it, but follows Göring's arrest orders.

Arc: He is skeptical but obeys, enabling mass arrests.

• Hermann Göring — his boss
• Adolf Hitler — the chancellor

Unemployed Dutch immigrant and documented Communist sympathizer found inside the burning Reichstag with a knife, passport, and Communist brochures.

Arc: He is detained and used to frame the fire as a Communist revolt.

• Hermann Göring — used as a pretext

Theology student who hears broken glass, sees a man with a flaming torch inside the Reichstag, and rushes to report the fire.

Arc: He is a witness to the Reichstag fire.

German president who appoints Hitler chancellor and later signs the emergency decree after the Reichstag fire. He dislikes Hitler but feels boxed in.

Arc: He enables Hitler's dictatorship and then fades from power.

• Adolf Hitler — appointed him chancellor
• Hermann Göring — trusted him
• Franz von Papen — trusted him

German politician who meets Hitler in Göring's office and is later made vice-chancellor. He is flattered and used by Hitler.

Arc: He becomes a figurehead in Hitler's government.

• Adolf Hitler — political meeting
• Hermann Göring — his host
• Paul von Hindenburg — trusted by him

Nazi leader expelled from the party just as he was poised to accept the vice-chancellorship. He is later killed in the Night of the Long Knives.

Arc: He is purged from the party and killed.

• Adolf Hitler — expelled him
• von Schleicher — had offered him a position

General and German chancellor who wants Hindenburg to disband the Reichstag and rule as dictator. He is ousted and later killed in the Night of the Long Knives.

Arc: He loses power as Hitler rises.

• Paul von Hindenburg — chancellor to him
• Franz von Papen — undercut him
• Adolf Hitler — rival

Head of the SA who meets with Hitler's inner circle and gains police powers for his men. He is later purged on the Night of the Long Knives.

Arc: He expands SA power and is killed in the purge.

• Adolf Hitler — his SA head
• Hermann Göring — co-conspirator
• Joseph Goebbels — co-conspirator

Leader of the opposition Black Front, with which Helmut Hirsch is involved. He represents a rival Nazi faction.

Arc: He remains an opposition figure against Hitler.

• Helmut Hirsch — involved with his Black Front

University student and Black Front operative expected to carry explosives at the Nuremberg station. He fails to appear.

Arc: His absence forces Bauer to retrieve the suitcase himself.

• Otto Strasser — Black Front leader
• Thomas Bauer — planned courier

Carpenter and cabinetmaker, also called Elsner, who collaborates with Bauer to plant a bomb in the Bürgerbräukeller pillar.

Arc: He arms the bomb that detonates too late to kill Hitler.

• Thomas Bauer — collaborator

Radio contact during the 1939 beer hall operation who reports on the motorcade.

Arc: She confirms Hitler's early exit.

• Thomas Bauer — radio contact

Hitler's armaments minister who warns Germany cannot continue the war and objects to the Nero Decree. He privately resolves to defy it.

Arc: He outwardly obeys Hitler but plans to prevent the destruction decree.

• Adolf Hitler — his minister
• Martin Bormann — cuts him off

Hitler's personal valet who agrees to burn Hitler and Eva's bodies and later brings the dead cook Rolf for the escape plan. He is captured by Bauer.

Arc: He remains loyal to Hitler until the staged suicide, then is told to leave Berlin.

• Adolf Hitler — his valet
• Thomas Bauer — his captor
• Rolf (cook/body double) — brings his body

Hitler's personal pilot since 1932 who confirms Hitler plans suicide and is expected at the Storch plane. Von der Haas takes his place.

Arc: He remains a loyal pilot but is not at the plane.

• Adolf Hitler — his pilot

Official who performs the civil marriage of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in the Führerbunker.

Arc: He officiates the bunker marriage.

• Adolf Hitler — officiant at his marriage
• Eva Braun — officiant at her marriage

Hitler's personal physician who administers a daily amphetamine cocktail. Aides privately consider him a quack and suspect Hitler is addicted.

Arc: He continues treating Hitler's decline.

• Adolf Hitler — his physician

Dark-haired young cook in the bunker kitchen who objects when Bauer and von der Haas unload supplies and directs Rolf.

Arc: She appears in the bunker kitchen scene.

• Rolf (cook/body double) — directs him

Member of the Ten Patriots who tells the group he will have the flat ready for their plan.

Arc: He prepares the resistance flat.

• Thomas Bauer — fellow Ten Patriot
• Fritz Gerlich — fellow Ten Patriot

Assistant chef in the bunker who resembles Hitler and is used as a body double in Hitler's fake suicide. He is killed and his body wrapped in a blanket.

Arc: He is killed and his body serves Hitler's escape.

• Constanze — works under her
• Heinz Linge — brings his body
• Adolf Hitler — his body double

Resistance sympathizer and liquor wholesaler who fled Berlin for Switzerland and left his flat and alcohol for Bauer and von der Haas.

Arc: His flat supplies the resistance infiltrators.

• Thomas Bauer — leaves his flat
• Erich von der Haas — uses his flat

Bunker staff member who pours champagne and asks an SS guard whether he will fight or lay down his weapon when the Russians breach the bunker.

Arc: She appears in the bunker defeat scene.

Bormann's secretary who tells the breakfast group Hitler will kill himself on April 30 at 1500 hours and predicts Bormann will refuse a tour.

Arc: She delivers the suicide timing.

• Martin Bormann — her employer

Appointed new chief of the Luftwaffe by Hitler and ordered to arrest Göring.

Arc: He receives a command in the endgame.

• Adolf Hitler — appointed him
• Hermann Göring — ordered to arrest him

Erich's brother, deported from Amsterdam to Sobibor with his family. He works as a woodsmith, then attacks an SS guard after learning his family was sent to the showers and is hanged.

Arc: He is separated from his family and killed at Sobibor.

• Erich von der Haas — his brother
• Annika von der Haas — his wife
• Dahlia von der Haas — his daughter
• Diederik von der Haas — his father
• Verena von der Haas — his mother
• Marek Jaruszek — fellow prisoner

Lars's wife, separated at Sobibor with the women and children. She gives Lars a tight smile as they are separated.

Arc: She disappears through the gate with the women and children.

• Lars von der Haas — her husband
• Dahlia von der Haas — her daughter
• Diederik von der Haas — her father-in-law
• Verena von der Haas — her mother-in-law

Lars and Annika's eleven-year-old daughter, separated with the women and children at Sobibor.

Arc: She is sent through the gate with the women and children.

• Lars von der Haas — her father
• Annika von der Haas — her mother
• Erich von der Haas — her uncle

Lars's father, who feels guilt for being a burden and urges Lars to raise his hand as a woodsmith. He marches with the men through the SONDERKOMMANDO gate.

Arc: He is separated with the men at Sobibor.

• Lars von der Haas — his son
• Verena von der Haas — his wife

Lars's mother, who has severe asthma and is separated with the women and children at Sobibor.

Arc: She disappears through the gate with the women and children.

• Lars von der Haas — her son
• Diederik von der Haas — her husband

Old Abwehr comrade in Poland who greets von der Haas, provides vodka, describes Warsaw's destruction, and translates for Marek.

Arc: He helps von der Haas learn his family's fate.

• Erich von der Haas — old comrade
• Marek Jaruszek — brings him

Sobibor escapee who recognizes Lars's photograph and tells von der Haas that Lars's family was sent to the showers and Lars was hanged.

Arc: He provides the truth about the von der Haas family.

• Lars von der Haas — fellow prisoner
• Stanislaw — resistance colleague

Peter Helldorff's wife, who answers the door with their infant son and says Peter has been miserable since his promotion. She tells Bauer Peter spoke highly of him.

Arc: She remains concerned about her husband's change.

• Peter Helldorff — her husband
• Thomas Bauer — acquaintance

Principal of Neue Tagesschule who tells Amalie her termination was not his decision. He stands by as SA troopers surround her.

Arc: He complies with the Nazi civil-service law.

• Amalie Bauer — her principal and employer

Acquaintance from Bauer's cadet training whose hardware store is robbed. He complains that the homeless have no reason not to rob him.

Arc: He appears as a victim of economic desperation.

• Thomas Bauer — old acquaintance

Hardware-store owner who keeps his shop open to make a replicate key for Bauer because he owed him a favor. His son was caught fencing a stolen watch.

Arc: He helps Bauer's Brown House break-in.

• Thomas Bauer — owes him a favor

Guard who escorts Bauer to the boiler room, unlocks the door, and later picks up the key ring Bauer secretly removed and returned.

Arc: He is deceived by Bauer during the break-in.

• Thomas Bauer — deceived by him

Catholic priest who knew Geli as a girl and Hitler for twenty years. He insists suicide cannot be buried on consecrated ground and asks Goebbels for his word.

Arc: Goebbels persuades him to allow Geli's Catholic burial by claiming she was murdered by political enemies.

• Angela Raubal (mother) — family confessor
• Geli Raubal — knew her as a girl
• Adolf Hitler — had known him for twenty years
• Joseph Goebbels — negotiator

Jewish scientist who arrives in Antwerp after a visiting professorship, learns his homes and office were ransacked, and renounces his German citizenship.

Arc: He rejects Nazi Germany and renounces citizenship.

• Elsa (Einstein's wife) — his wife
• Ludwig — his former student
• Georg (Berlin consulate friend) — friend who warned him

Wife of Professor Einstein who disembarks with him, supports him, and renounces her German citizenship as well.

Arc: She rejects the regime with her husband.

• Professor Einstein — her husband
• Ludwig — friend of her husband

Professor Einstein's former student who meets them at Antwerp, drives them, and relays Georg's warning that returning to Germany is dangerous.

Arc: He helps the Einsteins escape.

• Professor Einstein — his former teacher
• Elsa (Einstein's wife) — wife of his former teacher

Friend at the Berlin consulate who warned that the professor would be dragged through the streets if he returned.

Arc: He provides the warning that leads to renunciation.

• Professor Einstein — friend

New British prime minister pleading with the United States for intervention during the war.

Arc: He appears as a distant hope for intervention.

Helene Bechstein's daughter, whom Helene hoped Hitler would marry. She is mentioned as part of Helene's plans.

Arc: She appears only in background.

• Helene Bechstein — her mother
• Adolf Hitler — hoped-for suitor