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 It seems that the demand for personality figures was quite high, because the 1935 Lineol catalogue offered twelve different model representing VIPs of the Third Reich. Two interesting figures are the models of General Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg. Elastolin produced figures of this general at the same time. He was the head of the German army and Minister of Defence in 1938 when he was forced to retire by Hitler. Therefor Hausser and Lineol offered this figure in their later catalogues as the figure of a generic General - the same trick employed with the Röhm figure.
The composition toy soldier makers produced more than just German personalities. The 1936 Lineol catalogues unveiled two different figures of the Italian leader Mussolini were offered. One figures shows Mussolini standing at attention, while the other one represents him riding on a horseback. Hausser and Lineol produced a wide variety of non-German personality figures in the ensuing years. Examples include two English kings George VI and Edward VIII.
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