Editing Message to Adolf (section)

==Characters==
* '''{{nihongo|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]]. He was born and raised in [[Niihari District, Ibaraki|Niihari, Ibaraki]] (now [[Tsuchiura]]).
* '''{{nihongo|Isao Toge|峠 勲|Tōge Isao}}:''' A Japanese international student studying in Germany and a member of the Communist movement in Germany. When his organisation discovers a shocking secret, he is brutally murdered.
* '''Acetylene Lampe:''' A member of the Nazi Party and the Far East Chief of German Intelligence who pursues Toge around the world both to get the documents and kill him for revenge.
* '''Rosa Lampe:''' Acetylene's daughter and a Gestapo informant. Reports Isao, resulting in his death, and later Sohei which results in his torture. She commits suicide after Sohei rapes her and leaves Germany.
* '''{{nihongo|Nigawa|仁川}}:''' A Japanese police chief who takes Toge's side, and lets him stay at his place. He is killed in a shootout with the Gestapo.
* '''{{nihongo|Mieko Nigawa|仁川 三重子|Nigawa Mieko}}:''' The chief's daughter, who falls in love with Yoshio. She later moves to run a bar with Okei, after Honda's death. 
* '''{{nihongo|Okei|お桂}}:''' A widow who wears Yakuza tattoos. She falls in love with Toge and shelters him during a pursuit by the secret police.
* '''{{nihongo|Sachi Honda|本多 サチ|Honda Sachi}}:''' A [[geisha]] who was secretly working for the Communists. She is murdered by Kaufmann when they were involved in a tryst during the Gestapo's search for the documents.
* '''{{nihongo|Honda|本多}}:''' Sachi's brother, an [[Imperial Japanese Army|Imperial Army]] officer. He loves Yukie and pulls favors for her, including guaranteeing Toge which prevents him from being tortured to death in the beginning of the story. He kills himself after his high position in the Army makes war crimes accusations likely. 
* '''{{nihongo|Yoshio Honda|本多 芳男|Honda Yoshio}}:''' Honda's son. After living in Manchukuo and seeing Japanese oppression firsthand, he becomes part of Sorge's spy network. Yoshio admires his disgraced aunt's motives, and later becomes friends with Toge and Kamil. He falls in love with Mieko, but is killed by his father after revealing that he is a spy. His father conceals his death as a suicide.
* '''{{nihongo|Adolf Kaufmann|アドルフ・カウフマン|Adorufu Kaufuman}}:''' A half-Japanese, half-German boy living in Kobe. Though he opposes the Nazis at first, he develops a hatred for the Jews during his stay in Germany and persecutes them fervently, only renouncing these views at the end of his life. He later joins the [[Sicherheitsdienst]], then [[Gestapo]], then the [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]]. He is killed by Kamil, in revenge for the murder of his father.
* '''{{nihongo|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.
* '''{{nihongo|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. She later renounces her German citizenship and marries Toge. Yukie dies of injuries sustained during the Kobe bombings, but births their daughter before passing.
* '''{{nihongo|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. He joins Toge's group during the struggle for control of the document, and emigrates to Israel with his wife after the war, joining the [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli army]]. 
* '''{{nihongo|Noriko Koshiro|小城 典子|Koshiro Noriko}}:''' Also known as Ms. Ogi, she is Kamil's elementary school teacher who is later marked as Communist for writing anti-war poems. She helps Kamil hide the documents. 
* '''{{nihongo|Eliza Gerd Hymer|エリザ・ゲルトハイマー|Eriza Gerudo Haimā}}:''' A Jewish-Chinese girl living in Germany, she escapes Germany with the help of Kaufmann, but eventually marries Kamil. 
* '''Isaac Kamil:''' Adolf Kamil's father and a Jewish man who seeks to actively help other Jews around the world. He is murdered by Adolf Kaufmann while in Germany.
* '''[[Adolf Hitler]]:''' The German dictator himself. Many liberties are taken for the sake of plot, especially concerning his death. 
* '''[[Richard Sorge]]:''' The German communist spy in charge of Soviet espionage in Japan. He plays a prominent role towards the end of the story.