Seventeen Moments in Spring Image Essay

The Historical Characters

Some of the pleasure of watching Seventeen Moments was the opportunity to watch fictionalized --and human-- versions of the Nazi henchmen who commanded the Third Reich. Allen Dulles, a much vilified protagonist of the Cold War, received less sympathetic treatment.

SS-Oberführer Walter Schellenberg SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller SS-Gruppenführer Karl Wolff Allen Dulles, Swiss Director of the OSS