Claus Holm as Police Commissioner Axel Kersten

Mario Adorf as Bruno Lüdke

Hannes Messemer as SS-Gruppenführer Rossdorf

Peter Carsten as SS-Standartenführer Mollwitz

Carl Lange as Major Thomas Wollenberg

Werner Peters as Willi Keun

Annemarie Düringer as Helga Hornung

Monika John as Waitress Lucy Hansen

Rosel Schäfer as Anna Hohmann

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Presiding Judge Dr. Schleffien

Walter Janssen as DS Boehm

Wilmut Borell as SS-Obersturmführer Heinrich

Helmut Brasch as SS-Truppführer Scharf

Georg Lehn as Detective Bruehl

Lukas Ammann as Public Defender

Margaret Jahnen as Frau Weinberger

Käthe Itter as Doorman's Wife

Else Quecke as Frau Lehmann

Christa Nielsen as Blonde Prostitute

Alois Maria Giani as

Dietrich Thoms as Soldier

Heinz Beck as Station Constable (uncredited)

Trude Breitschopf as SS-Scharführerin (uncredited)

Friedrich Joloff as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Karl-Heinz Peters as Air-raid Warden (uncredited)

Toni Treutler as Canteen Keeper (uncredited)