John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)

Reichsführer John Smith (October 14, 1914 - ca. 1965) was a former U.S Army Captain who joined the SS following the surrender of the United States. He quickly rose through the ranks to Obergruppenführer, and was assigned to investigate the American Resistance in New York. Smith was instrumental in dismantling a conspiracy masterminded by Martin Heusmann and Reinhard Heydrich that sought to overthrow Adolf Hitler and annihilate the Japanese Empire in order to usher in a new age. He consequently became the first American to be promoted to the rank of Oberst-Gruppenführer. He was later appointed Reichsmarschall of Nazi America by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler when the previous Reichsmarschall, George Lincoln Rockwell, was exiled. He took control of Nazi America as its Reichsführer after he initiated a putsch against Himmler. He served as the main antagonist of both Season Four and the entire series as a whole, however appeared also as a protagonist of the entire serie. Though he is deeply loyal to the Nazi State, he does not appear entirely loyal to their ideology. He knows of Wayne Harris' homosexuality but, despite it being his duty to report her and a crime not to, he keeps this to himself and even claims it "doesn't bother" him. He also goes to great lengths to protect his son, Thomas, from state euthanasia showing he is not as indoctronated into Nazism as Thomas himself was. Furthermore, in the final series we see that the idea of another genocide against Black and Jewish people doesn't sit right with him. In the final moments of the show, he fully regrets his involvement with Nazism and kills himself on account of it.