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''[[The Iron Dream]]'' is a 1972 [[Heroic Fantasy]] / [[Science Fiction]] novel by Norman Spinrad... sort of. The majority of the book is the full text of the brilliantly popular fantasy novel ''Lord of the Swastika'', written by famed SF author [[Adolf Hitler]]; the rest of the book is a framing device setting up the world in which this alternate Hitler lives, and a concluding essay hammering the point home for those who didn't get it the first time through.
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* [[Adolf Hitler]] -- His alternate-history version illustrated for [[Pulp Magazine|the pulps]], then moved on to writing cheesy fiction.
* [[After the End]] -- A nuclear apocalypse has tainted the human gene pool.
* [[Alternate History]] -- A world in which Hitler moved to the US, got involved in [[Science Fiction]] [[Fandom]], and died in 1954. Furthermore, Germany fell to a Communist revolution shortly after he left, and by the time of the book's "afterword" the Greater Soviet Union dominates Eurasia and Africa and is moving into South America, leaving only the United States and Japan as the bastions of freedom on the Pacific.
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* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]] -- The Dominators' [[Mooks]] are mind-controlled to keep on fighting even though the hero's forces are cutting them down by the score.
* [[Author Avatar]], [[Marty Stu]] -- Feric Jaggar is an obvious avatar of Hitler.
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** There is not a single line of dialogue in ''Lord of the Swastika'' spoken by a woman. The words 'she' and 'her' simply do not appear at any point in the book.
** There is in fact an appearance by the fairer sex in this book! Specifically:
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** A while after the last example, it is reported to Jaggar that nearly forty thousand pure human females have been found suitable for breeding with the SS.
* [[Space Jews]] -- The Dominators of Zind, intentionally.
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