History Literature / InThePresenceOfMineEnemies

--> '''[[spoiler:SS Interrogator]]:''' [[spoiler: [[WhamLine You find us in the strangest places.]]]]

--> '''[[spoiler:SS Interrogator]]:''' [[spoiler: [[ThereIsAnother You find us in the strangest places.]]]]

* ColdWar: Germany and Japan are stated to be in an unofficial Cold War with one another as the world's two dominant superpowers. Nevertheless this doesn't stop Japanese tourism to Germany.

* EpicFail: during the climax, [[spoiler: after learning that Reichsfuhrer Lothar Prutzmann has killed himself rather than face justice, his puppet Fuhrer Odilo Globocnic tries to do so, too. He misses and gets beaten to death by the mob anyway.]]

* HidingYourHeritage: How people such as the Gimpels and other Jews have managed to survive into the 21st century. Heinrich and Lise don't tell their children of their true heritage until their 10th birthdays.
** [[spoiler: Apparently some have gotten so good at it, they've even been able to infiltrate the SS.]]

* LesCollaborateurs: It's stated the persecution of blacks ,Jews, and Hispanics by German occupying forces in the U.S. were aided by segments of white Americans.

** Heinz Buckliger, a reform-minded party figure who becomes the new Chancellor of Germany, is one for Mikhail Gorbachev with a bit of Nikita Khrushchev.
** Rolf Stolle, a buffoonish mayor of Berlin who ends up a leader of the democratization movement, is one for Boris Yeltsin.
** Kurt Haldweim, the previous German Chancellor prior to Buckliger, is a bit of a composite of Kurt Waldheim (a U.N General Secretary and president of Austria who was a former Nazi) and Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet leader where the beginning economic stagnation of the Soviet Union began).
** Charles "Charlie" Lynton, the leader of the British Union of Fascists and Prime Minister of the U.K., is one for UsefulNotes/TonyBlair [[note]] Note the real-life Sir Tony's full name is Anthony Charles Lynton Blair [[note]]. He's the figure who begins the calls for more open elections in the German Reich and it's puppet states.

** Kurt Haldweim, the previous German Chancellor prior to Buckliger, is a bit of a composite of Kurt Waldheim (a U.N General Secretary who was a former Nazi) and Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet leader where the beginning economic stagnation of the Soviet Union began).

* EpicFail: during the climax, [[spoiler: after learning that Reichsfuhrer Lothar Prutzmann has killed himself rather than face justice, his puppet Fuhrer Odilo Globocnic tries to do so, too, rater than face the mob outside the SS headquarters. He misses and gets beaten to dead by the crowd anyway.]]

** Charles "Charlie" Lynton, the leader of the British Union of Fascists and Prime Minister of the U.K., is one for UsefulNotes/TonyBlair. He's the figure who begins the calls for more open elections in the German Reich and it's puppet states.

** Rolf Stolle, a buffoonish mayor of Berlin who ends up a leader of democratization movement, is one for Boris Yeltsin.

--> '''[[spoiler:SS Interrogator]]:''' [[spoiler: [[WhamLine You find us in the strangest places.]]]]

--> '''[[spoiler:SS Interrogator]]:''' [[WhamLine You find us in the strangest places.]]
** [[spoiler:One of the SS officers investigating the claims that Heinrich is a Jew implies that he is one too after evidence (falsely) clears Heinrich.]]
* WhamLine: One of the last chapters of the book ends [[spoiler: with an SS Officer heavily hinting he's Jewish]].

* ColdWar: Germany and Japan are stated to be in an unofficial Cold War with one another as the world's two dominant superpowers. Nevertheless this doesn't Japanese tourism to Germany.

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: American representatives begin making noises over the course of the book as calls for democratization in the German Reich begin.

* AdaptationExpansion: The story is an expansion of a short story of the same name that Turtledove wrote. The first chapter, save for a few details, is what composed the original short story.

* DayOfTheJackBoot: Multiple nations of the world such as the U.S. and U.K. live under military occupation of Germany
* {{Dystopia}}: It's a world where the Nazis are victorious so it comes with the territory.

* LesCollaborateurs: It's stated the persecution of blacks and Hispanics by German occupying forces in the U.S. were aided by white Americans.

** Kurt Haldweim, the previous German Chancellor prior to Buckliger, is a bit of a composite of Kurt Waldheim (U.N General Secretary who was former Nazi) and Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet leader where the beginning economic stagnation of the Soviet Union began).

* WorldWarThree: One occurred in the 1960s between the U.S. against Germany/Japan which saw the U.S. soundly defeated with many of it's cities obliterated in nuclear strikes.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: The whole story is one for the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and UsefulNotes/SovietUnion.

* BattleTrophy: The German Reich has a museum in Berlin that acts a monument to Germany's victories over it's enemies in the 20th Century, including; the radioactive remains of the Liberty Bell, a glider used to land troops in southern Britain, the first Panzer IV to enter the Soviet Kremlin, and the railroad car in which Germany yielded to France in 1918, and in which France in turn yielded to Germany in 1940

** Charles "Charlie" Lynton, the leader of the British Union of Fascists and Prime Minister of the U.K., is one for UsefulNotes/TonyBlair.