Characters
- Sohei Toge (峠 草平, Tōge Sōhei?): A Japanese reporter sent to Germany to cover the 1936 Olympics only to find his younger brother murdered. He then proceeds to investigate who killed his brother and why, leading him into a dangerous web of espionage during World War II.
- Isao Toge (峠 勲, Tōge Isao?): A Japanese international student studying in Germany. When he discovers a shocking secret, he is brutally murdered.
- Adolf Kaufmann (アドルフ・カウフマン, Adorufu Kaufuman?): A half-Japanese, half-German boy living in Kobe and who has no real interest in the Nazi Party at first, but later joined Sicherheitsdienst, then Gestapo.
- Wolfgang Kaufmann (ヴォルフガング・カウフマン, Vorufugangu Kaufuman?): Adolf Kaufmann's father and a strong follower of Adolf Hitler. He works for the German Consulate General in Kobe.
- Yukie Kaufmann (由季江・カウフマン, Yukie Kaufuman?): Wolfgang's wife and mother to Adolf. She is unaware of what her husband is doing for the Nazi Party.
- Adolf Kamil (アドルフ・カミル, Adorufu Kamiru?): A Jewish-German boy who considers himself Japanese, and who accidentally learns the secret behind Adolf Hitler's ancestry.
- Isaac Kamil: Adolf Kamil's father and a Jewish man who seeks to actively help other Jews around the world. He was murdered by Adolf Kaufmann while in Germany.
- Acetylene Lamp: A member of the Nazi Party and the Far East Chief of German Intelligence.
- Adolf Hitler: The German dictator himself.
- Richard Sorge: A Communist Russian spy who existed outside of fiction and plays a prominent role towards the end of the story.
- Eliza Gerd Hymer (エリザ・ゲルトハイマー, Eliza Gerd Hymer?): A Chinese Jewish girl living in Germany. She escapes and lefts her family to live with her fiance Adolf Kamil. Kaufmann rapes her. Kamil's mother was killed by an American h-bomb plane. Today, Eliza is the widow of Adolf Kamil and lives in Israel.
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