- Paul Klinger
- Narrator (German version)
- Claude Stephenson
- Narrator (English version)
- Louis Arbessier
- Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)
- Jean-Claude Michel
- Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)
- Henning Skaarup
- (Danish Narrator)
- Heinrich Brüning
- Self (reads statement)
- Winston Churchill
- Self
- Friedrich Ebert
- Self (inspects Weimar troops, lies in state)
- Alfred Frauenfeld
- Self (meets Papen in Vienna)
- Adolf Hitler
- Self
- Inge Hvid-Møller
- (Danish Narrator)
- Vladimir Lenin
- Self
- Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
- Self
- Walther Rathenau
- Self (writes at his desk)
- Marinus van der Lubbe
- Self (on trial, in shackles)
- Franz von Epp
- Self
- Harry Giese
- Narrator
