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A 1976 novel by Ira Levin, it was adapted into a 1978 film starring [[Laurence Olivier]] as Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman and [[Gregory Peck]] as Dr Josef Mengele.
The novel and film are a speculative fiction type story involving infamous Nazi scientist Mengele (known as the "Angel of Death" for the extent of death he inflicted upon his victims during the Holocaust) trying to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning Hitler and recreating the events of his youth in order to make sure his Hitler Clones become as much like the original as possible.
Unfortunately for him, Mengele has a group of devoted Nazi hunters on his trail...
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Mengele tells {{spoiler|one of the Hitler clones}} his true origins. It fails.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Lieberman doesn't want to go after the kids after {{spoiler|Mengele dies}} because he believes in this. The ending kinda implies otherwise.
* {{spoiler|[[Cloning Gambit]]: Played with: It's not actually Hitler [[Back
* {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist]]:}} Barry in the movie.
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: {{spoiler|in the ending, one of the Hitler clones gets really absorbed and excited about his pictures of Mengele's dead body...}}
* [[Expendable Clone]]: Averted. While Mengele's superiors want the project scrapped, Mengele's very aware that his clones are aging in real time, and that each is irreplaceable.
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]
* [[Failure Hero]]
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* [[One-Hit Wonder]]: Jeremy Black, who played the titular kids, never had another film role, although he still had a career as a stage actor.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Gregory Peck is the bad guy here.
* [[Posthumous Character]]:
** {{spoiler|[[Adolf Hitler]]}}. Yeah he's dead, but he still affects every damn thing that happens in this story.
** Mannerisms and general demeanor aside, we learn more about {{spoiler|Barry}} after he's killed than we knew about him when he was alive.
* [[Secondary Character Title]]
* [[Society Marches On]]: The description of cloning is painstakingly detailed, as the concept was relegated to more futuristic scifi at the movie's release.
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Mengele asks his superiors why he can't "just shoot him", only to be denied...
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Lots of backups
* {{spoiler|[[You Cloned Hitler]]}}
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