Fabiana Bacigalupe, nurse, his wife
Cesare Malamore, Consul (Colonel) of Blackshirts (Voluntary Militia for National Security) Major Count Scipione di Montefalcone, Savoy cavalry officer
RUSSIAN COLLABORATORS/‘HIWIS’
Konstantin Mandryka, Chief of Schuma auxiliary police (Schutzmannschaft: ‘protection team’) Bronislav Kaminsky,* deputy to Mandryka, Chief of Schuma, later commander of the SS Sturmbrigade Kaminsky (Russian National Liberation Army), Waffen-SS Brigadeführer, Iron Cross
THE GERMANS
SS Obersturmführer Oskar Dirlewanger,* convicted rapist/murderer, commander of the Nazi penal battalion known as the ‘Poachers’ Brigade’ and the Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, later Oberführer, Iron Cross
THE KREMLIN
Josef Stalin,* Supreme Commander, Chairman of the State Defence Committee, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, People’s Commissar of Defence, General Secretary of the Communist Party, ‘the Supremo’, ‘the Instantsiya’
Hercules Satinov, Soviet leader, member of the State Defence Committee, colonel general Lavrenti Beria,* head of NKVD Security Organs, member of the State Defence Committee, Commissar-General of State Security Svetlana Stalina,* daughter of the Leader, schoolgirl Vasily Stalin,* son of the Leader, colonel in the air force, later general Lev Shapiro, ‘the Lion’, journalist, screenwriter, war correspondent for Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper
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