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Old 02-28-2010, 10:28 PM   #15
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Default Re: Weird War II Sources and Inspiration

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
In my covert supers campaign, the PCs got sent to Germany, where one of them met Uncle Aleister and ended up in a threeway with him and Alraune. Subsequently they borrowed the Nautilus to track the ghost of a U-boat that was taking Adolf Hitler to the sunken ruins of Atlantis to retrieve the One Ring of Power.

My theoretical rationale for that campaign was "the major figures of 1920s popular culture were real, but their creators were not." After that session, my preferred example was that Adolf Hitler existed, but not Leni Riefenstahl.

Bill Stoddard
Love the Riefenstahl rationale. I'm somewhat hesitant to give it an endorsement, but Triumph of the Will probably warrants a look from anyone interested in getting a handle on the whole Nazi thing.
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