| 1 | [[center: [- [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeries Main Character Index]] > > [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeriesMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeriesResistance The Resistance]] | '''The Greater Nazi Reich''' | [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeriesJapaneseEmpire The Japanese Empire]] | [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeriesNeutralZone The Neutral Zone]] | [[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeriesAlternateRealities Alternate Realities]] -]]] |
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| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | ---- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | !!German officials |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:Hitler]] |
| 10 | !!Der Führer, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler |
| 11 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hitler_main_image.png]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Destiny is in the hands of a very few men."'']] |
| 13 | |
| 14 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/WolfMuser |
| 15 | |
| 16 | The Führer of the Third Reich. |
| 17 | ---- |
| 18 | * AdaptationalHeroism: ''The Man in the High Castle'' may be the only form of media ever to portray Hitler as [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the lesser of two evils]]. (By comparison, in the original novel, he was locked in a lunatic asylum by his own allies.) |
| 19 | * AntiVillain: It tells you a lot about the world of ''The Man in the High Castle'' that '''Adolf Hitler''' qualifies as an Anti-Villain. Hitler is the only thing stopping the Nazis from going out and bombing the Japanese. |
| 20 | * BarrierMaiden: Him being alive is the only reason the alternate 1962 is still peaceful and not a nuclear wasteland. Japan and Germany are still at peace, because Hitler respects the Japanese and sees them as equals. Should Hitler die, his successor, probably Himmler or Goebbels, would definitely attack the Japanese Empire in an attempt at full world domination, resulting in another but more devastating war. |
| 21 | * BigBad: He's the man most responsible for the horrors of the setting, including the multiple genocides, atomic bombings, and state-driven terrorization and repression of its own people. [[spoiler:This becomes a subversion after the reveal that his more hardline followers want to start another war with Japan, whereas [[EvenEvilHasStandards he is opposed to such action]].]] |
| 22 | * BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:Just like in real life, Hitler's greatest weapon was his oratory powers. He shows his skill with this in the first season finale as he manages to stop Rudolph Wegener from assassinating him through a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]] |
| 23 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He opposes a nuclear war with Japan, because he correctly recognizes the devastation it would cause to the entire world.]] |
| 24 | * EvilVirtues: He may still be a genocidal warlord in this setting, but [[spoiler:he respects the Japanese enough to oppose a nuclear war that would in all likelihood destroy the planet]]. Plus, he's completely unshaken even while being held at gunpoint, and unwilling to let his apparently deteriorating health affect his actions in any way. |
| 25 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: This is fairly self-evident. |
| 26 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Purely on the basis of [[spoiler:not favouring a nuclear war with Japan]], he astonishingly manages to be less evil than other Nazi factions. |
| 27 | * NervesOfSteel: Stays completely calm when being held at gunpoint, despite knowing the wielder of the gun clearly intends to kill him. |
| 28 | * OlderAndWiser: A twisted and darker example of this trope. [[spoiler:Thanks to the ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' movies, this Hitler seems aware of his fate and the Third Reich's fate in other realities, and here he is trying to preserve his legacy by trying to prevent a nuclear war between Germany and Japan.]] |
| 29 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: He has largely secluded himself to his mountainside castle, not involving himself much with the day-to-day running of the empire he built. The main threat of the series is the SuccessionCrisis that would result in the event of his death leading to a possible nuclear war with Japan. |
| 30 | * ProperlyParanoid: Hitler stays in a fortified castle far away from urban areas and is always guarded by a SS contingent 24/7. He even keeps pistols within reach in his room. |
| 31 | --> '''Heydrich''': Our leader's paranoia at least has one advantage. He hides weapons everywhere. |
| 32 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler:Slipping into a coma from poison administered on behalf of Martin Heusmann, Hitler dies in his sleep in Season 2's end.]] |
| 33 | * VillainousLegacy: [[spoiler:He dies near the end of the second season, but the empire he has built persists and his successors ruthlessly continue his dreams of conquest, seeking to invade the rest of the multiverse.]] |
| 34 | * WorkingThroughTheCold: Everyone talks about how he does not have long to live, but he himself acts like nothing is wrong. |
| 35 | [[/folder]] |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[folder:Himmler]] |
| 38 | !!Reichsführer-SS[[spoiler:/Führer]] UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler |
| 39 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_12_17_at_31442_pm.png]] |
| 40 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"The thousand-year Reich cannot be deceived, and can never be destroyed!"'']] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/KennethTigar |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Hitler's NumberTwo, head of the SS (Schutzstaffel). |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | * AllohistoricalAllusion: In an ironic twist, at the end of season 2, he makes a big speech about [[spoiler:Heusmann]]'s betrayal of Hitler being an abominable act. The historical Himmler tried to make a deal with the Allies behind Hitler's back at the end of the war in a pathetic attempt to save his own skin. |
| 47 | * BigBad: After Hitler's death and Heusmann's arrest, Himmler is left leading the Reich and takes center stage as the main antagonist, being behind much of the conflict of season 3. |
| 48 | ** BigBadEnsemble: Alongside Yamori in Season 4. |
| 49 | * CastingGag: Kenneth Tigar played the old man in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' who refused to kneel to Loki, essentially saying that he (Loki) was like the Nazis. |
| 50 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Himmler is portrayed with quite a deep, booming voice. |
| 51 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: Like his historical counterpart he has round glasses which enhance his icy demeanor. |
| 52 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Himmler was the Reichsführer-SS, Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany. |
| 53 | * HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Likely on purpose. In real life, Himmler attempted to sell Hitler's skin to save his own life, while in the show he seems a steadfast supporter. However, this is likely because the Nazis ''won'' in this world, so Himmler had no reason to falter in his loyalty. The fact that his rival Hermann Goering was executed in this timeline for attempting a coup against Hitler also presumably dissuaded Himmler. |
| 54 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Has Nicole arrested and sent to a [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace "re-education facility"]] for her bisexual lifestyle, specifically calling it "perversion". Himmler is suspected to have been bisexual himself, though unlike his archenemy Ernst Röhm, he seems to have kept quiet about it. Such hypocrisy would not be unusual for the nazi leadership. |
| 55 | * IncurableCoughOfDeath: In Season 4, he is still alive from the assassination attempt a year on, but experiences coughing fits due to unspecified injuries to his lungs which requires him to get fresh oxygen from a gas tank to stop it. [[spoiler:Downplayed since it doesn't kill him, since Smith exploits a coughing episode by switching up the immediately-available air canister with ''[[DeadlyGas Zyklon]]''.]] |
| 56 | * IronicDeath: [[spoiler:Himmler is forced to breath Zyklon gas from a sabotaged tank during one of his coughing fits by a traitorous Smith whom the former tried to screw over first. A fitting end for the Nazi who had helped organise the mass genocides and had been betrayed by the one person he was grooming to take a leadership role for the Reich.]] |
| 57 | * LesserOfTwoEvils: Subverted. Initially Himmler appears to be a saner option compared to Heusmann, but it's later revealed that Heusmann's ambition to TakeOverTheWorld pales in comparison to Himmler's ambition to [[MultiversalConqueror Take Over ALL Worlds]]. |
| 58 | * MultiversalConqueror: He orders the construction of the ''[[InterdimensionalTravelDevice Nebenswelt]]'' so that the Nazis can expand their empire across the multiverse. |
| 59 | * RankUp: He becomes the new Fuehrer after Hitler's death and Heusmann's arrest for his murder. |
| 60 | * {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler:He concluded Joe's assassin brainwashing by forcing Joe to shoot his own father, which went too far and turned Joe into a SerialKiller. After ''Jahr Null'' concludes with the destruction of the Statue of Liberty, Himmler doesn't bat an eye or clap his hands. It's only after the pro-Nazi riots start burning down buildings and beating civilians on the street to death, that he starts ''smiling and laughing'' and comparing it to how he enjoyed ''Kristallnacht'', preventing public services from stepping in, and standing on the open sidewalk to watch it firsthand. [[LaserGuidedKarma This gets him shot]].]] |
| 61 | * UncertainDoom: He's shot by the resistance at the end of season 3, with his fate uncertain as Smith states he's still in the middle of surgery. He survives, but not without health complications. |
| 62 | * VillainousRescue: Himmler's arrest of Heusmann is what stops the world from entering into a nuclear war. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Frau Oberst Himmler]] |
| 66 | !!Margarete Himmler |
| 67 | [[quoteright:339:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/margarete_himmler.png]] |
| 68 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/GwynythWalsh |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Himmler's wife and the head of the German Red Cross. |
| 71 | ---- |
| 72 | * BehindEveryGreatMan: She's in charge of her husband's schedule and speech-writing, besides her own activities. She advises to Helen that she too should put her efforts into elevating her husband's position. |
| 73 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like the real-life Marga Himmler, she's a collaborator of her husband and head of the Red Cross. |
| 74 | * TheBaroness: Klebb-type. She's a cold, militaristic figure with a degree of authority. |
| 75 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her fate following [[spoiler:the purge of Himmler and the rest of the Nazi leadership at Smith and Goertzmann's hands is never brought up]]. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Heydrich]] |
| 79 | !!''SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer'' UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich |
| 80 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bscap0176.jpg]] |
| 81 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Loyalty is an overrated virtue, championed by the bovine, dignified by the weak to justify their weakness."'']] |
| 82 | |
| 83 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/RayProscia |
| 84 | |
| 85 | A prominent SS officer and chief of the Reich Main Security Office. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | ---- |
| 88 | * AdaptationDyeJob: The real Heydrich was notorious for being the only person in Nazi High Command that actually matched the blue-eyed blond Aryan ideal. He's played by the brown-eyed and brown-haired (though now mostly bald and grey) Ray Proscia. |
| 89 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, his faction is [[spoiler:the faction that opposes a nuclear war with Japan]]. Here, he's depicted as a complete sociopath. This may not necessarily be much of an upgrade in villainy, since his book counterpart is more like [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the least evil of a number of evil Nazi factions]] rather than not being evil at all. |
| 90 | * CardCarryingVillain: When Smith recites his nickname, the "Man with the Iron Heart", Heydrich admits that he's particularly fond of that one. |
| 91 | * TheChessmaster: He's slowly orchestrating a coup against the Führer. |
| 92 | * TheDragon: Turns out he didn't plan on becoming Führer himself, but was acting on under the orders of [[spoiler:Heusmann]]. |
| 93 | * TheDreaded: Everyone treats him with a heavy dose of fear. |
| 94 | -->'''Helen:''' Heydrich scares me, John. H-He says it's for the glory of the Reich, but he enjoys the things that he does. |
| 95 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Heydrich was a real person, and was even more monstrous in reality. This is the man who ''thought up the Holocaust''. |
| 96 | * HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: By his own admission to Smith's children, he's proud to have literally hunted down "subhumanoids" in Africa. |
| 97 | * RankUp: Heydrich was an ''Obergruppenführer'' during World War II. It seems that at some point he was promoted one tier, although the rank of ''Oberst-Gruppenführer'' wasn't introduced until after his death in 1942. |
| 98 | * RedBaron: "The Man Without a Heart", Smith dubs him, and he wears the title proudly. Also counts for the historical Heydrich, who was dubbed "The Butcher of Prague". Hitler himself called Heydrich "The Man with an Iron Heart", and a common joke before Heydrich's death was that he served as "Himmler's Brain". |
| 99 | * OutGambitted: [[spoiler:Heydrich's attempted coup to overthrow Hitler gets [[AssassinOutclassin undone by Hitler himself]], who already knew the coup was coming thanks to the film reels.]] |
| 100 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In a manner of speaking. In real life, Heydrich was killed by the Czech resistance ''in 1942'', before the Germans even began to lose the war, while in this universe he's still alive literally twenty years later, in 1962. |
| 101 | * TheSociopath: He is planning to start a nuclear war that would kill millions in the process and doesn't show a single ounce of regret or remorse for that matter. |
| 102 | * TheStarscream: He doesn't hide the fact that he wants to overthrow Hitler in a coup. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Heusmann]] |
| 106 | !!Reichsminister Martin Heusmann |
| 107 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heusmann2_2643f4088ad2950a09ff71fc86c521af.jpg]] |
| 108 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"There is no God in heaven. That means it's up to us to turn this life into heaven on Earth."'']] |
| 109 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/SebastianRoche |
| 110 | |
| 111 | A minister of Nazi Germany. |
| 112 | ---- |
| 113 | * BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Seemingly appeared as the BigBad at the end of Season 2, after assassinating Hitler; however, at the beginning of Season 3, he is executed by his own son.]] |
| 114 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He pretended to lack ambition and look weak so that Hitler would choose him as his successor as acting ''Reichskanzler''. In fact, he was plotting against Hitler all along and even poisoned him to take over.]] |
| 115 | * TheChessmaster: In actuality, he has been [[spoiler:playing a long gambit to put himself in charge and destroy Japan, the sole remaining rival to absolute Nazi [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]]]]. |
| 116 | * DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:He's Joe's father who was always absent. Subverted in that he claims he didn't abandon Joe, his mother took their son with her to the United States when she became disgusted with the Nazi ideology.]] |
| 117 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Heusmann is a unrepentant genocidal Nazi, but he does actually seem to care for his son and wishes to make amends. He also talks with sorrow about having lost his wife and other children during the war. |
| 118 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: When brought to the execution grounds at the beginning of Season 3, Martin, upon realizing that [[spoiler:Joe has to shoot him dead to be reinstated into the SS, calmly tells his son to do what he has to do, reciting his family motto ("Heart of steel") until Joe shoots him in the head]]. |
| 119 | * KnightTemplar: Never doubts that he's entirely right in his quest to wipe out the lesser races so the Aryan race can live in absolute harmony. |
| 120 | * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Heydrich, who plotted to overthrow Hitler and declare war on Japan, was actually working for Heusmann, making him a GreaterScopeVillain for season 1.]] |
| 121 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He's possibly a stand-in for Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect (and self-claimed "only friend"), as Speer's fate in this alternate history is not elaborated upon anywhere so far, or else Heusmann was Speer's successor. He could even be seen as something of a TakeThat directed at Speer, who is nowadays viewed to have attempted a HistoricalVillainDowngrade on himself. Heusmann is more bureaucratic and rational than most of his peers, but he undeniably embraces the genocidal tenets of naziism. |
| 122 | * TheStarscream: He was the mastermind and beneficiary of [[spoiler:Heydrich's plot to overthrow Hitler]]. |
| 123 | * VisionaryVillain: He aims to end conflict from Earth by [[spoiler:committing genocide against the Japanese so only the "Master Race" remains and may live in peace]]. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Wegener]] |
| 127 | !!''SS-Standartenführer'' Rudolph Wegener |
| 128 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rudolph_wegener_s1_smoking_infobox.jpg]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/CarstenNorgaard |
| 131 | |
| 132 | A Nazi official from Berlin, he travels usually under the assumed name of Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. He knows Tagomi from way back. |
| 133 | ---- |
| 134 | * TheAtoner: World War II and the subsequent genocides clearly left Rudolph guilty, and he seeks to atone for it. |
| 135 | * CrazyPrepared: Travels under a fake name. |
| 136 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:His book counterpart survives the events of the book. He is DrivenToSuicide in the final episode of the first season.]] |
| 137 | * MrExposition: Serves as this in providing Tagomi (and the audience) on what's happening in Germany. |
| 138 | * PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS. |
| 139 | * SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Is provided one first by Heydrich (kill Hitler or lose everything you love), and then much more effectively by Hitler (kill Hitler and get solace for previous genocides he had participated in, or kill himself and keep solace in the fact that he is not causing an even worse genocide of the Japanese).]] |
| 140 | * ShellShockedVeteran: The war left some massive psychological scars on him. |
| 141 | * ShutUpHannibal: When Hitler says that Wegener was lost when he lost his faith in the Reich, Wegener snarls, "I was lost the first time I committed evil in your name!" |
| 142 | * TokenGoodTeammate: He's the "good" Nazi of the show, being moral and seeing the errors of Nazi ideology. He knows that he's definitely ''not'' a good man after the things he's done, and [[TheAtoner he wants to make it right any way he can]]. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Dr. Mengele]] |
| 146 | !!Dr. UsefulNotes/JosefMengele |
| 147 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/josef_mengele.png]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnHansTester |
| 150 | |
| 151 | A high-ranking officer in the SS science division. |
| 152 | ---- |
| 153 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Josef Mengele was an SS "doctor" (in the loosest sense of the word) who conducted horrifying medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. He escaped capture at the end of the war and died in South America in 1979. |
| 154 | * MadScientist: As if Mengele would have any other profession. Here he [[spoiler:experiments on people who travel from alternate worlds]]. |
| 155 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: The real Mengele studied medicine and carried out human experiments on death camp prisoners with little to no scientific purpose behind them. Here, he's apparently also an engineer capable of constructing an InterdimensionalTravelDevice. At the very least, it's clear that he's experimenting on captured travelers and [[spoiler:organizing the test subjects]]. |
| 156 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's last seen [[spoiler:showing John Smith his "map of the multiverse"]]. He's not shown during [[spoiler:the Resistance attack on Die Nebenwelt, though it is likely he was KilledOffscreen during the raid]]. |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Keller]] |
| 160 | !!''SS-Gruppenführer'' Keller |
| 161 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/StephanGoldbach |
| 162 | |
| 163 | A Gruppenführer of the SS sent by Heusmann to support John Smith. |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | * BaldOfEvil: A bald Nazi officer of the SS |
| 166 | * TheBrute: He commands Nazi SS forces, though he's of a rank subordinate to John Smith, and advocates razing an entire city in response to the Resistance uprising. |
| 167 | * FallenHero: Like Smith, he was a former member of the United States military during the Second World War, who joined the SS after the Axis victory. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Eichmann]] |
| 171 | !!''SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer'' Adolf Eichmann |
| 172 | [[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eichmann.png]] |
| 173 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/TimothyMurphy |
| 174 | |
| 175 | A general in the SS and part of Himmler's war council. |
| 176 | ---- |
| 177 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Eichmann was an SS officer during the war, playing a huge part in the organization of the Holocaust alongside Heydrich. After the war, he fled to South America, until he was captured by Mossad agents and tried and executed for war crimes in Israel. |
| 178 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Actor Timothy Murphy's German accent is... off, to say the least. |
| 179 | * RankUp: He has attained a significantly higher-rank than the real Eichmann or even his boss Heydrich ever did. |
| 180 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He's introduced as a potential enemy to Smith, but is killed off in the same episode as part of Smith's and Goertzmann's coup against Himmler.]] |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Goertzmann]] |
| 184 | !!''SS-Obergruppenführer'' Wilhelm Goertzmann |
| 185 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goertzmann.png]] |
| 186 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/MarcRissman |
| 187 | |
| 188 | An ambitious young SS general and a rival to Smith. |
| 189 | ---- |
| 190 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Goertzmann has murdered all his rivals and has placed himself as head of the Third Reich, with no signs of any division or collapse.]] |
| 191 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: From his intimidating height to his selfishness and fanaticism, he appears to be a stand-in for Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the most senior surviving SS general officer who attempted to lie his way out of the Nuremberg trials, but was convicted and hanged by the Allies in 1946. |
| 192 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, Goertzmann is now leader of the third Reich with no signs his reign is collapsing.]] |
| 193 | * TheStarscream: [[spoiler:While he's initially hinted to be gunning for John Smith, he later strikes a deal with Smith to take part in his coup against the Reich leadership, then ruling jointly from both Berlin and New York.]] |
| 194 | * WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Smith to overthrow Himmler and divide up the Reich between them as equals.]] |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Göring]] |
| 198 | !!''Reichsmarschall'' UsefulNotes/HermannGoring |
| 199 | Hitler's former second-in-command. |
| 200 | ---- |
| 201 | * TheGhost: He is never shown and is mentioned to have been dead for some time before the series began. |
| 202 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Hermann Göring was the Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe and the second most powerful man in the Nazi Party. When Hitler decided to stay in Berlin while the Soviets were closing in, Göring attempted to assume command of the crumbling Third Reich and was expelled from all his offices. He was later captured and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, but committed suicide before he could be hanged. |
| 203 | * TheStarscream: Sometime before the start of the series, Göring attempted to seize power during a period in which Hitler was in poor health and not expected to survive. When he recovered, Hitler ordered Göring and his entire family to be killed. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Rommel]] |
| 207 | !!''Reichsmarschall'' UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel |
| 208 | |
| 209 | The famed "Desert Fox," who was appointed Reichsmarschall of the newly-conquered North America. |
| 210 | ---- |
| 211 | * TheGhost: Rommel is mentioned a few times over the series, but he never actually appears. |
| 212 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Erwin Rommel was one of Hitler's favorite generals, leading German troops in North Africa. |
| 213 | * RankUp: Historically, Rommel died as a field marshal. Here, he was promoted to Reichsmarschall shortly after the Nazi conquest of the Eastern United States. While he was eventually replaced with George Lincoln Rockwell, he is apparently still in a position of authority as he is mentioned as a potential successor for Hitler. |
| 214 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At the start of the series, when there is much speculation about Hitler's health, Ed says that Rommel is pretty much the only decent man who can take over after he dies. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | !!American Reich Officials |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Rockwell]] |
| 220 | !!''Reichsmarschall'' George Lincoln Rockwell |
| 221 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/425599.jpg]] |
| 222 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidFurr |
| 223 | |
| 224 | Governor of Nazi-controlled North America. |
| 225 | ---- |
| 226 | * AssholeVictim: [[EvenEvilHasStandards Other Nazis don't like him very much]], and he gets humiliatingly deposed and exiled to Cuba by Smith, who follows up by [[spoiler:having him assassinated a few weeks later]]. Possibly an AllohistoricalAllusion, as the real Rockwell was killed by one of his own followers after a falling out over ideology. |
| 227 | * HateSink: Even among the Nazis, he's a particularly disreputable character, having been named Reichsmarshall because [[LesCollaborateurs he founded the American Nazi Party]], and is also arrogant, smug, and sleazy. |
| 228 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the post-war American Nazi Party, a supporter of racial segregation and Holocaust denier, and was shot dead (by one of his own party members) in 1967. |
| 229 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler:Smith sends his regards via a large knife through his torso while Rockwell is watching a live sex show.]] |
| 230 | %%* {{Jerkass}}: |
| 231 | %%* KarmicDeath: |
| 232 | * OutGambitted: He spends season 3 plotting against Smith to have him removed and nip his ascendency in the Reich's chain of command in the bud. [[spoiler:This plan falls apart when Smith blackmails Rockwell's co-conspirator Hoover into framing Rockwell.]] |
| 233 | * TheQuisling: He's an American in the highest position of authority on behalf of the Nazi occupation. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Hoover]] |
| 237 | !!''ARBI''[[note]]American Reich Bureau of Investigation[[/note]] Director J. Edgar Hoover |
| 238 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/j_edgar_hoover.png]] |
| 239 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/WilliamForsythe |
| 240 | |
| 241 | Head of ARBI, the Nazi version of the FBI. |
| 242 | ---- |
| 243 | * ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey first time William Forsythe collaborated with the Nazis on TV]]. |
| 244 | * BigBrotherIsWatching: Due to the rise in Americanism following the [[spoiler:Japanese withdrawal from the West Coast, he proposes 24-hour surveillance on every single person in the American Reich through wiretapping and cameras on all private and public facilities]]. |
| 245 | * LesCollaborateurs: He's an American serving the Nazi state as an autority. |
| 246 | * DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Right before Smith executes him, he refuses to beg for his life. Smith doesn't care either way.]] |
| 247 | * TheDragon: To George Lincoln Rockwell in his plot to bring down Smith. |
| 248 | * FatBastard: He's a heavyset man that serves Nazism. |
| 249 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Hoover was the founder of the FBI. Here, he is a collaborator with the reigning Nazis. |
| 250 | * IFightForTheStrongestSide: Smith notes that Hoover will side with whoever has more power [[spoiler:after Smith gets evidence of Hoover's own sordid secrets that would surely get him executed, he joins Smith to bring down Rockwell]]. However, later on [[spoiler:when Smith's loyalty to Himmler becomes suspect due to Helen's actions, he begins to compile evidence against him once again, this time bugging the Smith penthouse]]. |
| 251 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: For much of season 3, he's scheming with George Lincoln Rockwell to have Smith removed from power. However, Smith [[spoiler:blackmails Hoover with his own sordid private life that would get him in hot water with the Reich, so he helps Smith frame Rockwell instead. From that point onwards, Hoover becomes a loyal servant of Smith]]. |
| 252 | * OutGambitted: [[spoiler:In season 4, he makes another move against Smith by monitoring his family and residences to build a case against him, then present these findings to Himmler to have Smith deposed. However, Smith saw this coming, and made arrangements to usurp control of the Reich, then personally guts Hoover with his service knife.]] |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Henry]] |
| 256 | !!Henry Collins |
| 257 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/KurtEvans |
| 258 | |
| 259 | Deputy Minister of Information of the GNR and head of the [[PropagandaMachine Greater Nazi News Service]]. Husband of Lucy. |
| 260 | ---- |
| 261 | * AssholeVictim: The man's a complete tool, so his death doesn't really sadden anyone. |
| 262 | * LesCollaborateurs: Like John Smith, he's American but came to serve the Nazi Regime. |
| 263 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's gunned down whilst forcibly telling the public the truth after a entire career of lies.]] |
| 264 | * IHaveYourWife: The Resistance [[spoiler:kidnaps Lucy to blackmail Henry into collaborating with them. He refuses, however, until Dixon tells him she's pregnant]]. |
| 265 | * MouthOfSauron: As head of the PropagandaMachine, he selects and delivers the official news of the GNR. |
| 266 | %%* NumberTwo: To Joseph Goebbels. |
| 267 | [[/folder]] |
| 268 | |
| 269 | [[folder:Turner]] |
| 270 | !!Billy Turner |
| 271 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/billyturner.png]] |
| 272 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/GilesPanton |
| 273 | |
| 274 | The Minister of Propaganda at the American Reich. |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | * {{Expy}}: He's a Nazi [[Series/MadMen Don Draper]]. |
| 277 | * PropagandaMachine: He runs and devises the propaganda initiatives for the American Reich. In his first scene, many of his drafts for fascist propaganda are seen. |
| 278 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He has contacts with the New York Police, which he uses to [[spoiler:get Thelma out of prison after she's arrested on a raid at a lesbian bar]]. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:Raeder]] |
| 282 | !!''SS-Sturmbannführer'' Erich Raeder |
| 283 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erich_raeder_full_body_image.jpg]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/AaronBlakely |
| 286 | |
| 287 | A SS officer working under Smith, he serves as his personal aide in the GNR military. |
| 288 | ---- |
| 289 | * {{Irony}}: He shares his name with Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, the head of the ''Kriegsmarine'' at the beginning of WWII. ''Grossadmiral'' Raeder [[TeethClenchedTeamwork openly despised the Nazi Party]], [[OnlySaneMan opposed going to war in the first place]], [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight often defied Hitler]], [[AFatherToHisMen and tried to protect Jewish sailors from the Gestapo]]. He was sacked in 1942 and replaced with the much-more-manageable Admiral UsefulNotes/KarlDonitz. This Raeder, on the other hand, has none of the Grand Admiral's redeeming qualities. |
| 290 | * NumberTwo: Acts under Smith when he's not around. |
| 291 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Killed by Joe Blake on Himmler's orders because HeKnowsTooMuch about Smith, particularly the abandoned escape plan for Thomas Smith, and as a reminder to Smith that no loose ends are acceptable as Himmler grooms him for higher positions.]] |
| 292 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Smith to the point that he's told to bring evidence to Hitler in case something should happen to him. Later, Raeder helps Smith in setting up his plan to attempt to save his son by smuggling him away. [[spoiler:That would cost Raeder his life.]] |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Reiss]] |
| 296 | !!Hugo Reiss |
| 297 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2017_07_15_at_54839_pm.png]] |
| 298 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BernhardForcher |
| 299 | |
| 300 | The GNR Ambassador to the Pacific States. |
| 301 | ---- |
| 302 | * CulturalPosturing: Looks down his nose at all things Japanese. |
| 303 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When an SS attaché explains the concept of ''chi'', he scoffs at "superstitious slant-eyed crap." |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Diels]] |
| 307 | !!''SS-Oberführer'' Oliver Diels |
| 308 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2017_07_15_at_54814_pm.png]] |
| 309 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/AlexZahara |
| 310 | |
| 311 | An SS Oberführer stationed at the GNR embassy in San Francisco. |
| 312 | ---- |
| 313 | * ActorAllusion: Alex Zahara has played a particularly monstrous Nazi before, Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher in ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995''. While still a Nazi, Diels is a DefectorFromDecadence, making him ALighterShadeOfBlack. |
| 314 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Defects to the Japanese Empire in the aftermath of Hitler's death. [[spoiler:He and other Nazi defectors are later tracked down by assassins from the Reich and killed.]] |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Whitcroft]] |
| 318 | !!''Generaloberst'' Bill Whitcroft |
| 319 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ezgifcom_webp_to_jpg_6.jpg]] |
| 320 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/EricLange |
| 321 | |
| 322 | A German Army general and former US Army officer. |
| 323 | ---- |
| 324 | * FallenHero: Like Smith, he is a former US Army officer who joined the Reich to secure its advantages. |
| 325 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:In the series finale, after he learns that Smith is dead, he calls off the Luftwaffe attacks on the newly liberated Pacific States.]] |
| 326 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: When his superior informs Smith and his fellow soldiers that those who willingly join the Reich will be given prominent positions. Upon taking a swastika armband, Whitcroft says it is only a piece of cloth. |
| 327 | * TheQuisling: Like John, he's a US national who has risen high by serving the Reich and even fought the Resistance. |
| 328 | * UndyingLoyalty: To John. When he discovers [[spoiler:that Hoover is collecting evidence against John, he brings the news to the him and proposes he takes over the American Reich using the nuclear arsenal as a deterrent against Berlin. When John refuses, Bill assures him he'll follow John no matter what and is entrusted with the safety of the Smith family should John be killed in Berlin]]. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | !!American Reich Civilians |
| 332 | |
| 333 | !!!Smith Family |
| 334 | [[folder:Thomas]] |
| 335 | !!Thomas Smith |
| 336 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/425609.jpg]] |
| 337 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/QuinnLord |
| 338 | |
| 339 | John and Helen's only son and their eldest child. |
| 340 | ---- |
| 341 | * TheAllAmericanBoy: In keeping with his parents' portrayal as the typical 1950s-style married couple with a fascist twist, Thomas is a polite and dutiful son who loves sports and outdoor activities, who just happens to believe wholeheartedly in Nazi ideas about politics and racial hygiene. |
| 342 | * DrivenToSuicide: After watching his father being [[spoiler:honored by the Nazi leadership for bringing down Heusmann, he delivers himself to the authorities to be euthanized for suffering an incurable genetic disorder]]. Also a situation of HonorBeforeReason, [[spoiler:as Thomas appears to do it as his responsibility to his family and the Nazi laws that they and their society follow]]. |
| 343 | * NiceGuy: If you take apart the Nazi indoctrination he has been raised in since birth, which is hardly his fault, Thomas is a genuinely nice boy. |
| 344 | * PrecociousCrush: Thomas appears to be developing this towards Juliana. |
| 345 | * TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:He doesn't take it well when he finds out he suffers from an incurable genetic disorder that, according to Nazi ideology and laws, make him a "useless eater".]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder:Jennifer]] |
| 350 | !!Jennifer Smith |
| 351 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jennifer_smith_fallout_s2b.jpg]] |
| 352 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/GeneaCharpentier |
| 353 | |
| 354 | John and Helen's eldest daughter and their second child. |
| 355 | |
| 356 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Averted — while the other characters ''think'' she is this, with Amy rolling her eyes and dismissively saying "teenagers" when Jennifer refuses to eat breakfast with the family, Jennifer's supposed bratty behavior is actually her reaction to finding out what her father being a high-ranking Nazi ''actually means''. |
| 357 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After seeing the BCR broadcast, she lays into Helen about the death camps and [[spoiler:Thomas's death]], and says tearfully that she never wants to be like Helen. |
| 358 | --> "Everything we have was bought with other people's lives!" |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Amy]] |
| 363 | !!Amy Smith |
| 364 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amy_smith_tmithc.jpg]] |
| 365 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/GracynShinyei |
| 366 | |
| 367 | John and Helen's second daughter and their youngest child. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Raised and educated within Nazi ideology, she's the first to stand up and give the Nazi salute during Thomas's memorial in which he's praised for turning himself in for eugenic euthanasia. |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | !!!Other civilians |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder:Dr. Adler]] |
| 375 | !!Dr. Gerald "Gerry" Adler |
| 376 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/425624.jpg]] |
| 377 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/KevinMcNulty |
| 378 | |
| 379 | The Smith family doctor and a close friend of John and Helen. |
| 380 | ---- |
| 381 | * AffectionateNickname: His friends call him "Gerry". |
| 382 | %%* HappilyMarried: With Alice. |
| 383 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: His wife thinks he's this trope since she believes her husband is "helping the community" by euthanizing the undesirables and gets death threats and called a murderer for this. |
| 384 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He's killed by the same poison that he gave to John to euthanize his son.]] |
| 385 | * KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:John kills him to prevent Dr Adler from revealing his son's medical condition to the GNR authority.]] |
| 386 | * ToBeLawfulOrGood: While he understands most parents hate euthanizing their children, he still does it since it's the law of the GNR. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, his decisions to stick to the law by not keeping Thomas's medical condition a secret and almost revealing the boy's condition to the authorities if John doesn't euthanize his son first ends up getting him killed by John to keep it a secret.]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[/folder]] |
| 389 | |
| 390 | [[folder:Alice]] |
| 391 | !!Alice Adler |
| 392 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/426019.jpg]] |
| 393 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/GillianBarber |
| 394 | |
| 395 | Dr. Adler's wife and a close friend of Helen. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She is killed by Helen in self-defense when trying to strangle her in a rage in retaliation for Helen slapping her and to avenge her husband's death after spitefully pointing out Helen's daughters possibly inheriting defects like the late Thomas and should be reported in the name of the Reich to join their brother in death and calling out the Smiths for their hypocrisy in terms of their loyalty to the Reich.]] |
| 398 | * KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Helen accidentally kills her while confronting her to stop spreading "rumors" about Gerry's death. John later breaks into her home to stage a robbery and make it seem like she was killed by a burglar.]] |
| 399 | * RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:She lusts to seek justice for and to avenge her husband Gerry's death by spreading "rumors" and even threatened Helen to report her daughters for possibly carrying defects out of spite and revenge.]] |
| 400 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:She almost had an investigator examine her husband's body since she correctly believed he was poisoned and not dead from a heart attack, thereby revealing the truth about his death. To prevent that, John orders that Dr. Adler's body be "accidentally" cremated.]] |
| 401 | * TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:The more suspicious she is about the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death, the more antagonistic she is towards the Smiths for their involvement in Season 3.]] |
| 402 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Was a close friend of Helen, until her husband's death and her suspicions about the Smiths being involved made her turn against her.]] |
| 403 | * WalkingSpoiler: See how all her entries are marked. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Lucy]] |
| 407 | !!Lucy Collins |
| 408 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/EmilyHolmes |
| 409 | |
| 410 | A close friend of Helen and wife to Henry Collins, the Deputy Minister of Information of the GNR. |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | * FunctionalAddict: She consumes a number of drugs — all prescribed by Dr. Adler — Pervitin for fatigue (methamphetamine), Obetrol for weight control (amphetamine), eukodal (Oxycodone, an opioid), and cocaine for the sinuses. |
| 413 | * StepfordSmiler: Resorts to this to keep her inability to have children and her husband's resulting contempt a secret. |
| 414 | * IHaveYourWife: The Resistance kidnaps her to blackmail Henry into collaborating with them. |
| 415 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her fate after [[spoiler:being kidnapped by the Resistance is not touched upon. With Henry killed after revealing the truth about Hitler, and knowing of the Resistance attitude towards Nazis, even civilians, she very well may have fallen to YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]. Her fate is ultimately revealed in Season 3, as it was confirmed that she is still alive. |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:Thelma]] |
| 419 | !!Thelma Harris |
| 420 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/LauraMennell |
| 421 | |
| 422 | A journalist. |
| 423 | ---- |
| 424 | * TheBeard: She and her similarly gay husband, Wayne Harris, are one for the other. |
| 425 | * {{Paparazzi}}: She's one, collecting the dirty secrets of figures such as [[spoiler:Hoover]]. |
| 426 | * LipstickLesbian: She acts and dresses very feminine, which is expected within a regime that persecutes homosexuality and imposes traditional gender roles and behavior. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 |
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