The Man in the High Castle/YMMV

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• Complete Monster: Reinhard Heydrich and Dr. Seyss-Inquart, although neither of them appear in person.
  • In fact, the book ends right before Wegener arrives at the SS headquarters to meet Heydrich on the eve of his state coup.
• Cult Classic: In the alternate history fandom.
• Fridge Brilliance: Large parts of the narrative are written in a strange stilted way, almost like a formal pidgin English with lots of sentence fragments. It may seem annoying to the reader at first, but there's a reason for it - this is how the Japanese speak, and the narrator of those chapters, Robert Childan, imitates the speech of his masters. The farther away we get from the Japanese sphere of influence (in Juliana's chapters), the more normal-sounding American English the narrative becomes.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Many things the Nazis are doing, such as the massive genocide of blacks in Africa.
• Nausea Fuel: The Nazi doctors inventing new uses for dead bodies, such as using the joint of the big toe as a mechanism for a lighter.