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In April 1945, Soviet forces are storming Berlin. Captain Hasso Pemsel and the survivors of his company are under siege in Berlin's Old Museum with orders to fight to the last man. Pemsel notices a large stone artifact that had not been removed to a safer location and is curious about it. In a lull in fighting, he crawls over and reads that it is the Omphalos from Zeus' temple in Delphi, a keystone and bridge between worlds. On a fatalistic whim he sits on it and is immediately transported to another world where magic works and wizards ride unicorns.

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rdfs:label	After the Downfall
rdfs:comment	In April 1945, Soviet forces are storming Berlin. Captain Hasso Pemsel and the survivors of his company are under siege in Berlin's Old Museum with orders to fight to the last man. Pemsel notices a large stone artifact that had not been removed to a safer location and is curious about it. In a lull in fighting, he crawls over and reads that it is the Omphalos from Zeus' temple in Delphi, a keystone and bridge between worlds. On a fatalistic whim he sits on it and is immediately transported to another world where magic works and wizards ride unicorns.
dcterms:subject	After the Downfall Fantasy Works Set in Fantasy Realms World War II Stand-alone Books Works Set in Germany Works Set in the 1940s 2008 Works
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pub date	2008(xsd:integer)
Country	United States
Genre	Fantasy
Cover Artist	David Palumbo
ImageSize	150(xsd:integer)
Language	English
Pages	350(xsd:integer)
Publisher	Night Shade Books
ISBN	1597801313(xsd:integer)
abstract	In April 1945, Soviet forces are storming Berlin. Captain Hasso Pemsel and the survivors of his company are under siege in Berlin's Old Museum with orders to fight to the last man. Pemsel notices a large stone artifact that had not been removed to a safer location and is curious about it. In a lull in fighting, he crawls over and reads that it is the Omphalos from Zeus' temple in Delphi, a keystone and bridge between worlds. On a fatalistic whim he sits on it and is immediately transported to another world where magic works and wizards ride unicorns. This strange fantasy world has, however, aspects which are all too familiar to an arrival from Nazi Germany. He finds himself in the midst of a fierce war, waged by a blond-haired, blue-eyed people called the Lenelli, who look like the Nazi "Aryan" dream incarnated (far more so, in fact, than most of the actual Germans). The Lenelli also adhere to a thoroughly racist religion which proclaims them far superior to the small, swarthy people called Grenye, whom they consider as fully justified to conquer and subjugate (indeed, it is a holy duty). In effect, the decision which Pemsel must take is whether to continue where he left off in 1945 Berlin and cast in his lot with this world's blond, racist conquerors - or to switch over and support what might be considered as the avatars of Earth's Slavs and Jews. And his decision would be highly crucial for this world's future: like Hank Morgan of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Martin Padway of L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall, Pemsel is in possession of technological information centuries ahead of anyone in this world, which can sharply swing the military balance towards those with whom Pemsel would share his knowledge.

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