Complete Monster: Eduard Roschmann was the SS Commandant of the Riga ghetto who was responsible for the deaths of 80,000 German Jews. Christened the "Butcher of Riga" due to his ruthlessness, Roschmann reveled in exterminating the Jewish prisoners in cruel fashion. His crimes include: sentencing a line of Jews to hang—as well as personally kicking the chair from underneath a Jewish boy; allowing his lieutenants to shoot prisoners into open graves; and reconverting a van into a gas chamber, trapping several Jews inside, Salomon Tauber's wife being one of the casualties. When Wehrmacht soldiers were called in towards the end of the war, Roschmann angrily shoots the Wehrmacht commander who is later revealed to be the father of journalist Peter Miller. Taking the alias Hans "Josef" Kiefel, Roschmann founds the Kiefel Electric and secretly aids the ODESSA by manufacturing radio gyroscopes and biochemical warheads which will then be distributed to Egypt, with striking Israel as the end goal.
Love to Hate: Roschmann is a filthy monster, but Maximilian Schell played this proudly monstrous and disgustingly cowardly Nazi charismatically especially in the climatic confrontation between his character and Jon Voight's character that highlights his acting.
The Woobie: Salomon Tauber. He was a Jew who served time in the concentration camps under Roschmann, and when World War 2 was over he was so traumatized at the sufferings and atrocities he'd endured - some by his own doing - that he spent his last years a recluse and eventually took his own life.
