Peter Kranz — Downfall Character Profile

About Peter Kranz

Hitler Youth member conscripted to fight in the Battle of Berlin. He denounces his father after being urged to desert. After destroying two enemy tanks, Hitler personally awards him the Iron Cross, hailing him as braver than his generals. Peter survives as the sole survivor of his unit, discovers his parents were executed, and escapes Berlin with Traudl Junge.

Character Facts

Played by

Donevan Gunia

Appears in

Downfall (2004)

Role

Minor

Relationships (2)

• Peter Kranz — Power Military Patron — Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz)

  Hitler publicly rewards Peter's battlefield actions.

  Hitler personally awards Peter the Iron Cross after Peter destroys two enemy tanks.

• Peter Kranz — Alliance Escape Companions — Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)

  Junge and Peter survive together after the regime collapses.

  After escaping the bunker area, Junge is joined by Peter, and the two find an abandoned bicycle and flee Berlin.

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• Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz)
• Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)
• Magda Goebbels (Corinna Harfouch)
• Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes)
• General der Infanterie Hans Krebs (Rolf Kanies)
• Eva Braun (Juliane Köhler)
• Albert Speer (Heino Ferch)
• SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke (André Hennicke)
• Prof. Dr. Werner Haase (Matthias Habich)
• General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf (Justus von Dohnányi)
• Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck (Christian Berkel)
• Martin Bormann (Thomas Thieme)