LIST OF CHARACTERS

ROYAL AIR FORCE INVESTIGATION TEAM

Squadron Leader Francis P. McKenna

Wing Commander Wilfred “Freddie” Bowes

Flight Lieutenant Stephen Courtney

Flight Sergeant H. J. Williams

Sergeant Wilhelm Smit

Flight Lieutenant Harold Harrison

Flight Lieutenant A. R. Lyon

Flight Sergeant R. M. Daniel

Squadron Leader W. P. Thomas

Sergeant J. Van Giessen

Flying Officer D. J. Walker

UPPER NAZI HIERARCHY

Adolf Hitler

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler

AT THE CENTRAL SECURITY OFFICE (RSHA) UNDER HIMMLER

SS Obergruppenführer and General of Police Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Gestapo SS Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller

Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) SS Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe

REGIONAL KRIPO AND GESTAPO PERSONNEL

BRESLAU

Dr. Wilhelm Scharpwinkel: Head of the local Gestapo

Max Wielen: Head of the local Kripo

Dr. Gunther Absalon: SS captain charged with prisoner-of-war security in Sagan region

Dr. Ernst Kah: Head of local SD, intelligence agency of the SS

Heinrich Seetzen: Inspector of local Security Police

Hans Schumacher: Senior officer with local Kripo

Max Richard Hansel: Kriminal Inspektor with the Görlitz Gestapo

Lux: Breslau Gestapo agent and chief executioner

Knappe: Breslau Gestapo agent and member of Scharpwinkel’s murder squad

Kiske: Breslau Gestapo agent and member of Scharpwinkel’s murder squad

Robert Schröder: Scharpwinkel’s driver

Erwin Wieczorek: SS officer present at the shooting of four captured airmen

Laeufer: Breslau Gestapo agent and member of Scharpwinkel’s murder squad

BRNO/ZLÍN

Hans Ziegler: Head of the Zlín Frontier Police, which served as an auxiliary to the Brno Gestapo

Wilhelm Nöelle: Head of the Brno Gestapo

Franz Schauschütz: Inspector with the Brno Gestapo

Hugo Roemer: Section chief in the Brno Gestapo

Adolf Knuppelberg: Senior Brno Gestapo official, who shot Thomas Kirby-Green

Friedrich Kiowsky: Driver for the Zlín Frontier Police (Gestapo)

Fritz Schwarzer: Hugo Roemer’s personal driver

Erich Zacharias: Officer with the Zlín Frontier Police (Gestapo), who shot Gordon Kidder

Otto Kozlowsky: Brno Gestapo lawyer

DANZIG

Dr. Günther Venediger: Head of the local Gestapo

Erich Graes: Deputy director of the local Kripo

Kurt Achterberg: A deputy in the local Gestapo

Reinhold Bruchardt: Venediger’s right-hand man

KARLSRUHE

Josef Gmeiner: Head of the local Gestapo

Walter Herberg: Local Gestapo agent assigned to the murder squad

Otto Preiss: Local Gestapo agent assigned to the murder squad

Heinrich Boschert: Local Gestapo agent assigned to the murder squad

Otto Ganninger: Deputy commandant of Natzweiler concentration camp

Magnus Wochner: Camp registrar at Natzweiler

KIEL

Friedrich (Fritz) Schmidt: Head of the local Gestapo

Johannes Post: Deputy in local Gestapo and chief executioner

Oskar Schmidt: Agent with the local Gestapo assigned to the murder squad

Hans Kaehler: Inspector with the local Gestapo

Franz Schmidt: Agent with the local Gestapo assigned to the murder squad

Walter Jacobs: Agent with the local Gestapo assigned to the murder squad

Artur Denkmann: Driver with the local Gestapo

Wilhelm Struve: Driver with the local Gestapo

LIBEREC

Bernhard Baatz: Head of the local Gestapo

Robert Weyland: Local Gestapo agent and suspected gunman

Robert Weissmann: Local Gestapo agent and suspected gunman

MUNICH

Dr. Oswald Schäfer: Head of the local Gestapo

Anton Gassner: Agent with the local Kripo in charge of Munich search operations

Greiner: Head of the local Kripo

Johann Schneider: Local Gestapo agent assigned to the murder squad

Emil Weil: Local Gestapo agent assigned to the murder squad

Martin Schermer: Local Gestapo agent assigned to the murder squad

Eduard Geith: Local Gestapo agent assigned to the murder squad

STRASBOURG

Alfred Schimmel: Head of the local Gestapo

Heinrich Hilker: Local Gestapo agent and gunman

Max Dissner: Section head of local Gestapo and suspected gunman