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* [[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.
* [[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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102Bundesarchiv Bild 102-04062A,_N N%C3%BCrnberg,_Reichsparteitag Reichsparteitag,_SA SA-_und_SS 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.
* [[You Cloned Hitler]] -- Well, Feric Jaggar.