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** The [[Space Jews|Dominators']] country is called Zind, which could be meant to recall "Zion".
** The [[Space Jews|Dominators']] country is called Zind, which could be meant to recall "Zion".
* [[Mind Control]] -- How the Dominators dominate. Jaggar is the only one able to resist them.
* [[Mind Control]] -- How the Dominators dominate. Jaggar is the only one able to resist them.
* [[Mutants]] -- Quite a few distinct species exist (at least before [[The Purge]]), such as [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Parrotfaces, Pinheads, and Toadmen]].
* [[Mutants]] -- Quite a few distinct species exist (at least before [[The Purge]]), such as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Parrotfaces, Pinheads, and Toadmen]].
* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name]] -- [[Captain Obvious|Well, ''duh''... ]]
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]] -- [[Captain Obvious|Well, ''duh''... ]]
* [[One-Gender Race]] -- {{spoiler|Humanity, at the end. Since the Dominators' spiteful radiation bomb has ruined mankind's genome, cloning is used to create the next generation of [[Ubermensch]], who are all tall, blue-eyed, blond males.}}
* [[One-Gender Race]] -- {{spoiler|Humanity, at the end. Since the Dominators' spiteful radiation bomb has ruined mankind's genome, cloning is used to create the next generation of [[Ubermensch]], who are all tall, blue-eyed, blond males.}}
* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]] -- Only Jaggar can wield the Truncheon of Held.
* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]] -- Only Jaggar can wield the Truncheon of Held.
* [[Putting On the Reich]] -- The alternate universe sci-fi fans do this with the uniforms described in the story.
* [[Putting on the Reich]] -- The alternate universe sci-fi fans do this with the uniforms described in the story.
* [[Schizo-Tech]] -- The book starts in a post-apocalyptic world where steam-powered buses are common transportation, but swiftly moves through World War II-level weaponry before ending with cloning and interstellar spaceships.
* [[Schizo-Tech]] -- The book starts in a post-apocalyptic world where steam-powered buses are common transportation, but swiftly moves through World War II-level weaponry before ending with cloning and interstellar spaceships.
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]
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* [[Stylistic Suck]]
* [[Stylistic Suck]]
** Hitler's not a very good author.
** Hitler's not a very good author.
** As anyone who's read even a few short passages of ''[[Mein Kampf (Literature)|Mein Kampf]]'' can attest, [[Truth in Television|he really wasn't]].
** As anyone who's read even a few short passages of ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' can attest, [[Truth in Television|he really wasn't]].
* [[Take That]] -- The book suggests that in the real world, the works of certain specific sf and fantasy writers, their [[Fandom]], and the science fiction and fantasy genres as a whole at large have [[Unfortunate Implications]] - see the [[The Iron Dream (Literature)/YMMV|YMMV page.]]
* [[Take That]] -- The book suggests that in the real world, the works of certain specific sf and fantasy writers, their [[Fandom]], and the science fiction and fantasy genres as a whole at large have [[Unfortunate Implications]] - see the [[The Iron Dream/YMMV|YMMV page.]]
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] -- Spinrad expected his readership to, in effect, get the joke. Of course, not everyone did.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] -- Spinrad expected his readership to, in effect, get the joke. Of course, not everyone did.
* [[We Have Reserves]] -- Millions and millions of them, in the Dominators' case.
* [[We Have Reserves]] -- Millions and millions of them, in the Dominators' case.
* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough]] -- The author analyzing Hitler's story notes that while some fans may yearn for such a decisive and iron-willed leader to save them from Soviet domination, he concludes that no rational person would ever stand such a clearly delusional, bloodthirsty tyrant, and that they certainly wouldn't be swayed by [[wikipedia:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-04062A, N%C3%BCrnberg, Reichsparteitag, SA- und SS-Appell.jpg|snappy uniforms, precision marching, and gigantic displays of stirring imagery]].
* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?]] -- The author analyzing Hitler's story notes that while some fans may yearn for such a decisive and iron-willed leader to save them from Soviet domination, he concludes that no rational person would ever stand such a clearly delusional, bloodthirsty tyrant, and that they certainly wouldn't be swayed by [[wikipedia:File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-04062A, N%C3%BCrnberg, Reichsparteitag, SA- und SS-Appell.jpg|snappy uniforms, precision marching, and gigantic displays of stirring imagery]].
* [[Word of God]] -- The framing commentator/literary agent says that Hitler in the alternative timeline died of syphilis, which slowly ate away at his brain. This accounts for (some of) the wild excesses of the later part of the novel.
* [[Word of God]] -- The framing commentator/literary agent says that Hitler in the alternative timeline died of syphilis, which slowly ate away at his brain. This accounts for (some of) the wild excesses of the later part of the novel.
* [[You Cloned Hitler]] -- Well, Feric Jaggar.
* [[You Cloned Hitler]] -- Well, Feric Jaggar.
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