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== General Tropes ==
* [[Artist Disillusionment]]: Some fan created a [[Fanfic]] on Alternatehistory.com. Said fanfic used an epic story covering the whole wide world as a background for drunken nonsense talk full of [[Redundancy Department of Redundancy]]. And even worse, insisted to insert some seriously [[
* [[The Beautiful Game]]: When national teams from the Socialist Block were allowed to compete in a world cup for the very first time, their Englishmen bring German Bavaria a painfully shameful defeat in the finals after penalties.
* [[Cool Train]]: Vacuum maglevs which can reach speeds of no less than 10000
* [[Cross Cultural Kerfluffle]]: "Atlantis" can refer to both Americas or the German part of the northern continent. Like "America" in our world, but even more [[Egregious]].
* [[Cyberpunk]]: The last about thirty years of the TL definitely have this vibe going on, courtesy of the Logos (hackers) and the more earlier achieved advanced state of computer technology and networks than in our history.
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* [[Steampunk]]: Germany invents and deploys [[Tank Goodness|steam-driven tanks]] in this timeline's [[World War One]]. {{spoiler|And wins.}}
* [[Sure Why Not]]: [[User:Dr Nodelescu|Some fan]] suggested that the head of the Socialist part of Germany should have the title "Oberster Politischer Kommissar", which became canon.
* [[Take That]]: Berlin is an uninteresting medium-sized city.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: In several of the stories from the Chaos Timeline.
* [[Write What You Know]]: The author is German. He stated that his [[Alternate History Wank|Germanwank]] essentially runs on this because it's nigh impossible to competently employ local colors, proverbs and a global language that you know nothing about.
** Another reason was having a good villain for a desired [[Bait and Switch]] factor: The original version featured Japan instead of China as the other superpower beside Germany and a traveller from our world might easily assume it to be a "Nazis victorious" timeline at first sight.
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** Friedrich von Hohenzollern who might be [[Frederick the Great]] born in an Atlantean log cabin and successfully running away from his tyrannical father.
** Explorers / travellers Markus Poller and Mao Polou
** "Kingdom of God" is the counterpart to Thomas More's [[
** Condolcessa, last one of the Florentine ruling family, reminds of Lucrezia Borgia, at least in that people claim both to have committed [[Parental Incest]], though this hasn't to be true.
** "Christnacht" is a text about a rich but avaricious landowner, who isn't willing to share his wealth with others, until he is suddenly experiencing... something at the evening of christmas. And his name (Thimotheus) becomes synonymous with "miser". [[A Christmas Carol|Sounds familiar?]]
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* [[A Degree in Useless]]: Subverted. The German technocracy [[Hard on Soft Science|generally scoffs at anyone studying humanities]], minimizing their teaching to a "harmless enough" level, afraid of the potentially rising threat of [[The Evils of Free Will|pro-democratic freethinkers]]. Education in "hard sciences" and general blue collar vocational training is encouraged, supplemented by a [[Bread and Circuses]] approach in state propaganda. [[Reality Ensues]] when one of the stories depicts a young couple smuggling banned philosophy books from German Atlantis to a [[Canada, Eh?|somewhat more democratic neighbouring country]].
* [[Dirty Communists]]: Here, Socialists. They take over Britain in the mid-19th century and spread over all of Western Europe. [[And Zoidberg|And Greece]].
* [[Eagle Land]] Speaking German. In both parts of <s>the Americas</s> Atlantis.
* [[Easy Logistics]]: Commenters raised one or another eyebrow about transporting six- to seven-figure numbers of soldiers across the Atlantic in each direction during this world's [[World War II]]. The author responded that several factors like bigger navies on both sides <ref>That of Italia Nuova '''alone''' was supposed to be bigger than that of the USA in our world.</ref> and improved technology would work it out, but also confessed that [[Rule of Cool|there wouldn't be a world war in this world if it wouldn't]] because the odds were [[Curb Stomp Battle|so one-sided in each half of the world]].
* [[The Empire]]: As this is a realistic (hi)story, it's a question of your POV. The New Roman Empire, the German technocracy and others might all qualify.
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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: At the end, World War III between the superpowers Germany and China breaks out, and although it doesn't last long (actually a mere three hours), the world will never be again as it was before. {{spoiler|1=Because the <s>hackers</s> Logos and their allied AIs take over the world and the military and tell the war off.}}
* [[Everything Is Online]]: Exploited big time at one occasion.
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: In the [[GURPS]] adventure based on this, one dealer tries to sell the PCs the drug "black niig", which supposedly makes people feel "like Stalin
* [[For Dummies]]: aka "[[Serious Business|The Rules]] for/to ______"
* [[Former Regime Personnel]]: The [[Word of God|entry at GURPS wikia]] suggests a term for a whole caste of high-profile [[Shell Shocked Senior|PTSD victims]], "ex-leaders", the collateral damage of the outcome of the [[Grand Finale]].
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== Shout Outs ==
* The two first Dutch men who founded a colony in Atlantis are named Jan and Kees [[The Simpsons (animation)|van Houten]].
** And the first German guy there is a Hans Meier - the equivalent of John Smith.
* Two German merchants, [[Buddenbrooks|Herr Hagenström and Herr Buddenbrook]] talk about the emerging Atlantis business. A mijnheer [[Theme Naming|Arnoldsen]] from Amsterdam is also mentioned.
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* The Rasac (Japanese-influences group of radical sceptics - so radical, they even doubt logic and science) are a [[Shout-Out]] to a story by Heinrich Böll ([[In Name Only|in abbrev only]] - the other Rasacs are short for "Rasante Sadisten Capotas" [=rapid sadists of [[Ruritania|Capota]]]).
* [[Tropers/Thande|Technische Hochschule Argentinien/Neustadt für Delizierung und Eisenverarbeitung]]
* Another timeline, "A Plethora of Princes", is also [[Title Drop
* Russian WWII general and dictator Gridenkov is a [[Shout-Out]] to an older [[Alternatehistory.com]] timeline - ''Fire Eagle, Snow Bear'' - which had a Russian dictator Gridenko fighting Germany which won (our world's) [[World War One]]. Also, one of right hand man of this timeline's Gridenkov, a guy named [[Bilingual Bonus|Belochvostikov]], is known as "Stalin, The Man of Steel" ([[Sarcasm Mode|like a certain dude from our history about whom you might have heard of]]).
* Other Members of [[Alternatehistory.com]] are also mentioned.
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