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Chapter 1

 * **//Aronsohn//**: victim of castration at Auschwitz, subject of Johann's flashback


 * **//Brandt, Karl//**: Adolf Hitler's personal physician, highest ranking Nazi medical administration to survive,fearless, uncompromising in his service to the Volk,worthy of respect.[|Brandt]


 * **//Brenner, Helga//**:Johann's wife,wants to know about the doctors,wants Johann to come home but he says he can't,wants to wait for her husband but has been waiting for so long,works at the hospital,lives in their old apartment,provides medical information in exchange for food and gifts, thought she was a widow until she saw Johann, the courthouse janitor.


 * **//Brenner,Johann//**: German soldier during WWI, doctor during WWII at Auschwitz,now known as Heinrich Westermann with false papers, janitor working the night shift at The Palace of Justice, afraid of being recognized at the trials,has a wife Helga and can't tell her what happened, not ready to go home yet,has a limp from WWI,scar on his hand from WWII that can be hidden,best friend is Jewish and named Philipp, sleeps at Palace of Justice.


 * **//Erika//**: Helga's sister who lives in Karlsruhe


 * **//Goering, Hermann//**: Johann first saw him up close when Hitler was giving a speech in Nuremberg, Johann remembers the night fondly, has a defiant glare, but looked shabby in the prisoner's dock.[|Hermann Goering]


 * **//Brenner, Paul-Adolf//**:Johann and Helga's son son, wore his Hitler youth uniform to school one day and forgot his books because he was so excited.


 * **//Schumann, Horst//**: in charge of sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz, previously worked at an asylum in Grafeneck,quoted on page 10 and 11; justifying experiments.[|Schumann]


 * **//Old Man//**: stacks bricks, Johann recognizes him but cannot identify him by name.


 * **//Witness//**: pudgy,balding,"looked at least 60, but was probably not yet thirty"(7), speaks German with a Polish accent,no hesitation or stumbling, talks about tests done by doctors at concentration camps, victim of experimental operations.

Chapter 2

 * **//Bosch//**: A patriot and Lutheran Pastor, significant person in Johann's life who dies during the war.


 * **//Brenner, Fredrich//**: Johann's father, traveling salesman


 * **//Brenner, Helga//**: nurse


 * **//Brenner,Ottilie//**: Johann's mother, loving and maternal


 * **//Gerstner, Christian//**: Close friend of Johann's, lost in war


 * **//Ludendorff//**: A master general


 * **//Schmidt//**: Johann's inspiration


 * **//Stein, Philipp//**: A Jewish doctor, childhood friend of Johann

**Chapter 3**

 * **//Eisner, Kurt//** :a radical Bavarian journalist and socialist politician[| Eisner]


 * **//Grotjahn, Alfred//**: founder of the discipline of Social Hygiene, lecturer at the Charite from 1912-1915, then became the director of Social Hygiene division of Berlin's Municipal Office of Medicine. [|Grotjahn]


 * **//Grunberg, Frau//**: land lady where Philipp stayed, motherly


 * **//Kaup, Ignaz Anton//**: doctor/professor,anti-semite; [|Kaup]


 * **//Kellner, Fritz//**: Philipp's school rival, killed in WWI


 * **//Kolle//**: listed briefly


 * **//Lenz, Fritz A//**. :extremist doctor/professor,anti-semistist [|Lenz]


 * **//Luxemburg//**: listed briefly


 * **//Max//**:Philipp's uncle, killed in WWI


 * **//Old Rathenau//**: listed briefly


 * **//Rockefeller//**: listed briefly


 * **//Stein, Philipp//**: best friend of Johann, Jewish, doctor, hard working, veteran of WWI, very smart and driven,volunteered at hospitals during WWI and decided to practice medicine,went to University of Berlin, pacifist, kind and reserved, caring,mentally strong, reasonable, controlled, wants the greater good for all.


 * **//Trotsky, Leon//** : communist of Jewish descent in the revolutionary regimes from the Soviet Union [|Trotsky]


 * **//Warburg//**: listed briefly


 * **//Wasserman, Jacob//**: novelist, [|Wassermann]


 * Chapter 4**


 * **//Brenner, Helga//**: Portrayed in this chapter as a tough, "German woman." Able to deal with her horrid circumstances after the war.(67)


 * **//Brenner, Fredrich//**: Johann's father. A smart man who did not handle the war well. Has some common sentiments with Nazis.(74)


 * **//Brenner,Ottilie//** :Johann's mother. Happy, yet realistic in difficult times.(70)


 * //**Professor Schonauer**//- Professor from college, Feels Jews have too much influence in Germany.(78)


 * Chapter 5**


 * **//Binding, Karl//** - prominent retired professor of law.


 * **//Gerhard//**- planned to be a doctor, Frau doctor seligmann's twin brother, died in the war.


 * **//Heinrich//**- Seligmann's older brother, started University of law when the war began, died in the war.


 * **//Hirschsprung, Harald//**: Danish pediatrician, first described symptoms of blockage of the large intestines in infants, had his own name in the disease "Hirschsprung disease", doctor before a professor.


 * **//Hoche, Alfred//** : Phillip's residency professor of psychiatry at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freilburg-im-Breisgau.


 * **//Hoche, Frau//**- Alfred's wife, lively, bright-eyed woman.


 * **//Kreisler//**- man blinded by gas, wasting away his life.


 * **//Lenkel, Herr//**- land lord at the Neue Pension zum Schwarzwald near the University and hospital, had rules to the apartment.


 * **//Schetzeler//**- portly man, stringy hair that hung over his forehead.


 * **//Seligmann, Louise//**- family is Jewish, from Hamburg, studied there then in Cologne and Heidelberg, has an older brother and twin brother who were killed last year in war, in the navy, father died of heart attack, mother died in influenza, a doctor, looked up to family.

**Chapter 6**

 * **//Bock//** (pg 115)-physician; has a glass eye from the war


 * **//Brenner, Johann//** (pg. 111)- doctor in Germany; lives in his parent's house with his wife and children


 * **//Brenner, Helga//** (pg 113):Johann's wife; has two children; house wife


 * **//Brenner,Ottilie//**: (pg 114):Johann's mother; took in Johann and Helga; willing to take care of baby Paul-Adolf


 * **//Sprenger//** (115): director of the policlinic where Johann Brenner works


 * **//Hitler, Adolf//** (pg 129):Leader of Germany [|Hitler]


 * **//Schwester Arens//**(pg 115):nurse


 * **//Schwester Forest//** (pg 115):nurse


 * //**Schwester Mannesmann**// (pg 115): nurse; newest staff member


 * **//Sprenger//** (115): director of the policlinic where Johann Brenner works


 * **//Steublein//** (pg 115):the resident physician

Chapter 7

 * **//Grimmel, Frau//**- Mother who believes there's something wrong with her son Georg. Wants to send him to mental institute or anywhere to get him off her hands


 * **//Grimmel,Georg//**- child who's at doctors, (dark skin, dark hair, green eyes) no friends, loud and sings but tiny.


 * **//Naumann, Christine//**- 18-19 years old light brown hair, blue eyes, curly hair, modern woman me Philipp on school trip. She's honest and open. From Oashabruck now lives in Augsburg.

Chapter 8

 * //**Blum**//- pg 150- physician Philipp now works with in Augsburg


 * **//Conzelmann//**- p. 150- the two physicians Phillip now works with in Augsburg.


 * **//Meier//**- p.148- the old man Johannn watched moving bricks, also Christine's uncle.


 * **//Naumann,Christine//**- p.149- Phillip's new fiance who he met in Freiburg and later moved to Augsburg for.


 * **//Scharff, Herr Reinard M.D//**.- p.150- a doctor in Augsburg who has filed a complaint against Phillip. He is a cruel, strict doctor who no longer practices medicine well. He is also a member of the Nazi Party.

Chapter 9

 * **//Stein, Philipp//**- 182- "Then Philipp took his antics to another level. Seeing the kiosk behind them... he monkey-walked backwards, stopping directly in front of a waist-high campaign poster for Hitler. Philipp bend over, his butt a few inches away from the Fuhrer's nose, and did his money-dance, arms swinging, hooting and laughing." This passage demonstrates Philipp's deep disrespect and loathing of Hitler as well as his sense of humor.


 * **//Short, Balding Man//**- 182- Store owner who scolds Philipp for his act of defiance against the Fuhrer. "'There ought to be a place for you and your ilk! A prison. Worse. You defile this country! You are a crazy man! Asshole!'"


 * **//Gerschenkron, Benjamin//** - 184- senior physician in Philipp's policlinic, a Jew who decides he and his wife must leave the Vaterland because their lives are in danger.


 * **//Gerschenkron, Martha//** - 185- Benjamin's wife, converted to Judaism shortly before she married which causes Philipp to question Christine's loyalty because he did not convert.

**Chapter 10**

 * **//Brenner, Greta//**- not quite three years old, has Polio.


 * **//Brenner, Johann//**- began to dread, think, blame when he would enter the courtrooms. He would describe it all as a, “stretch”.


 * **//Brenner, Paul-Adolf//**- now five years old


 * **//Klemmer, Frau//** - friend of Helga. Devoted wife of lawyer (Richard). They both have devoted but professionally absorbed, ambitious husbands children who had become the center of attention, household budget that denied them, and a vague feeling of distress about being in Nuremburg.

**Chapter 11**

 * **//Britzer,Frau//** - Brenner’s, “hunchbacked, downstairs neighbor” (pg 210)


 * //**Goebbels, Josef**// - Nazi party’s chief organizer in Berlin [|Goebbels]


 * **//Grotjah//**- founder of social hygiene school, suspected Nazi, didn’t accept Johann’s article because it didn’t pertain to race


 * //**Meininger, Herr**// - son-in-law of the owner of the curtain company that Helga works at


 * **//Semmelburg, Ellen//** - daughter of Rivka and Herr Semmelburg, nurse


 * **//Semmelberg, Herr//**- “shopkeeper from Pohlendorf near Munich” (pg 210), Johann bought candy from him, he cares greatly for his family


 * **//Semmelburg, Rivka//** - Herr Semmelburg’s wife, overweight, very sick, suspected liver disease, Johann decides to help Herr Semmelburg put her out of misery

**Chapter 12**

 * //**Graeber, Reinhard**// - a doctor in Nuremberg, a Nazi. (Pg. 236)


 * //**Van der Lubbe**//- the Dutch person responsible for burning the Reichstag. Pg. 242


 * **//The Tinies//**- Greta’s imaginary friends, there is one that represents each member of her family. Pg. 239


 * **//“Jew boy”//**- a symbol for all Jewish children, for doctor Graeber(pg. 250)

Chapter 13

 * **//Wagner, Doctor Gerhad//**: Nazi Doctor


 * **//Abel, Wolfgang//**: High ranking Nazi Doctor


 * **//Zimmer//**: Aryian Doctor, Phillipp’s patients are being sent to him


 * **//Fraupichellim//**: Patient


 * **//Graeber//**: Super raceist; destigunished Nazi doctor


 * **//Bruggers//**: Family friends of the Stiens

Chapter 14

 * **//Seiver,Wolfram://** A Nazi doctor who displayed skeletons in Dachau.


 * **//Herr Sreicher,Gacleita//**- Newspaper editor.


 * **//Bürgermeister Liebel//**- Politiian, Mayor.


 * **//Der Stürmer//**- Cheif Nazi administrator for the city and district.


 * **//Heinzel//**- Paul-Adolf’s friend.


 * **//Frau Roen and Sophie//**- House was broke into and Sophie was badly beaten.


 * **//Herr Plommers//**- Latin teacher.


 * **//Sadie//**- Injured Jewish girl that Philipp helps


 * **//Birnberger//**: Jewish child who had to leave school


 * **//Saperstein//**- Jewish children who had to leave school

Chapter 15

 * //**Brandt, Karl**//- one if the Reich's "most important medical administrators" Hitler's personal Physician, confident, cocky, intelligent; "not one hair out of place."(307), slicked back,high forehead, tall,erect,athletic looking, mid thirties.


 * **//Shumann,Hors//**t- Doctor,Director of Grafeneck (asylum in Wurtlemberg) [|Shumann]


 * **//Bouhler, Philipp//**- chief of Hitler's chancellery, has a limp from the first war, highly intelligent, straightforward and sensible


 * **//Hefelmann,Hans//** - speaker at Nazi " welfare" committee meeting; members dosed off as he spoke

**Chapter 16**

 * //**Carl Clauberg**//-(320) Germany’s leading gynecologists


 * //**Schetzeler**//-(320) not married, accomplished gynecologists


 * **//Daniel Aronsohn//**- (320) was one of the first patients Johann did the procedure on, died instantly afterwards


 * **//Josef Mengele//**-(320) most important doctor in camp


 * **//Eduard Wirths//**- (328) camp’s chief medical officer


 * Chapter 17 **


 * **//Christine Stein: Philipp's wife killed in a bombing in Berlin // **


 * **//Paul Adolf:// killed in Russia fighting in deaths head unit of the S.S **


 * **//Frau Ziegler//: Neighbor of Phillip and Christine who warns the Gestapo who took Philip. **


 * **//Goebbles//: Nazi leaders in Berlin ordered rounding up of jewish men with Aryan wives. [|Goebbels] **


 * **//Hermann Goering//: Head of the Luftwaffe declared he would change name to “Meier” if any enemy war plane succeeded in harming Germany [|Goering] **

**Chapter 18**

 * **//Doktor Lustig//**- Works with Phillip at the polyclinic, wants him to stay a Jew and hide


 * **//Richard Semmelberg-//** From Pohlendorf husband of Rivika now lives in and hides out with daughter Ellen until her husband dies


 * **//Ellen Richter//**- Nurse her husband was a Geman salesman but killed in war.


 * **//David Stein//**- Philipp's Father

Chapter 19

 * Chapter 20**
 * **//Meier//**- he remembers meeting Johann at Phillip and Chirstines wedding; seems kinder then before


 * **//Schetzeler//**- drinks to cover his shame/ problems with what is going on around him.


 * **//Hunched back nurse//**- fairly detached and oblivious (pg.400)


 * **//Short doctor//**- detached, unemotional towards his patients (pg. 402)


 * **//Judge//**- extremely loyal to Hitler (pg.407)

Chapter 22

 * **//Heinrich Westermann//** (439) unmarried, Protestant, business man; died of a heart attack and had a head wound as well. Johann found him and stole his papers.


 * **//Old Schmidterl//** (441) Johann and Philipp's old school teacher from grade school