YMMV / Kthulhu Reich

• Alternative Character Interpretation: In "Dies Irae", how sane is Stauffenberg? Are there really as many Humanoid Abominations infiltrating Germany as he believes, or is he hallucinating due to paranoia, psychic influence from the Nazis and Tsanpo, and/or hallucinogens in his rations? If he isn't insane, then what was the conversation with that giant rat all about?
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene in "Dies Irae" where a giant rat appears in Stauffenberg's house and interrogates him about his plans to kill Hitler. Stauffenberg himself doesn't seem all that surprised and barely even reacts. Especially so if you assume Stauffenberg is sane, as even if he's right about the crab people there's no reason for a giant talking rat that knows about the coup plot to suddenly appear.
• Complete Monster:
  • Adolf Hitler himself, whose rise to power was foretold by Nyarlathotep himself, is the ruler of the Third Reich and all the apocalyptic evil within. Not only facilitating the destruction of millions of human lives through The Holocaust, Hitler gleefully and willingly employs supernatural means to help achieve the genocide of the Jews, involving eldritch horrors in the Third Reich, outlining programs to harvest the tortured life energy of those in the camps, and listening to the advice of mystics like Reinhard Heydrich and Teppa Tsanpo. Seemingly killing himself after the war ends, Hitler reincarnates himself as a Japanese man many years later and reawakens his identity, fully preparing to start his genocidal designs all over again in a new country.
  • "April 20, 1889": Nyarlathotep and his chief servant Jack the Ripper—real name W.W. Wescott—are the true founders of the Third Reich. Murdering several prostitutes in Victorian London, the two set about a magical ritual in order to birth an Antichrist-like figure—Hitler himself. Having succeeded, the two plot his later rise, planning for the Final Solution of the Jews in order to create their racist, ethnically pure dream.
  • "A Feast for the Children of the Night": Countess Katarina Dracula is a charming, vicious woman who worships the Old One Tsathoggua. Bound up in the Carpathian mountains, the Countess sways a group of Nazi soldiers into her service and directs them to slaughter the locals to free herself. Having them rape, slaughter and kill everything in sight, she rewards them by having them devoured by her monstrous children, even letting the leader experience it alive and conscious before she unleashes the forces of Tsathoggua to ravage the countryside.
  • "Gigantomachia 1945": Herr Saga, real name Reinhard Heydrich, found the secret of returning from death, stealing the eye of Dagon and worshiping the fire Old One Cthugha. After numerous war crimes, Heydrich is seen fleeing to South America onboard a U-Boat, staving off Dagon's wrath by using innocent Argentinians as diversionary sacrifices. Leeching the life from those on board, Heydrich intends to make them his slaves and forcibly convert the one woman on board, Inge, into his new Eva Braun as he pretends to be Hitler, causing the deaths of all the crew. Intending on restarting a Fourth Reich and using Cthugha's flames to burn down all who oppose him, Heydrich plots to become the new true Führer in a resurgent Nazi regime.
  • "Dies Irae": Guru Teppa Tsanpo is a supposed Tibetan mystic who in actuality is a ravenous extradimensional horror who seeks to control the Führer himself. Through Tsanpo's suggestions and corruptions—-including the life energy programs—Tsanpo makes World War II worse than it already is, ramping up slaughter and genocide while even having people butchered and served to unsuspecting soldiers. Tsanpo's end goal is implied to be nothing more than to totally shatter and destroy all humanity after he's finished using Hitler as he may.

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