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Key People
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Michel Ney
French duke
Alfred Dreyfus
French military officer
Aaron Burr
vice president of United States
Benedict Arnold
American general
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
Anthony Babington
English conspirator
Joseph Caillaux
French statesman
Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez
French general
Sir Roger Casement
British politician
Clement L. Vallandigham
American politician
Iva Toguri D’Aquino
American broadcaster
Isaac Butt
Irish leader
Vidkun Quisling
Norwegian politician
Mildred Gillars
American traitor
Pausanias
Greek military officer
Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcy
English noble
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st earl of Essex
English baron
Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov
Soviet officer
Jean Balue
French cardinal