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* TestedOnHumans: A group of concentration camp inmates are used for a demonstration for Heinrich Himmler.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Doctor Gottlieb has one day to prove that a test subjects death wasn't accidental (the time it takes for Doctor Von Westarp to return from Berlin) or he'll be executed as TheScapegoat.
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* ForWantOfANail: Happens literally in "What Doctor Gottlieb Saw" -- Gretel arranges a fatal accident and proves her abilities as a seer making her indispensible to the Nazis, all by arranging for a bucket of nails to get knocked over.
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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: One officer is executed on trumped-up charges of espionage because he's spreading rumors of what's going on.
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* ForWantOfANail: Happens literally in "What Doctor Gottlieb Saw" -- Gretel arranges a fatal accident and proves her abilities as a seer making her indispensible to the Nazis, all by arranging for a bucket of nails to get knocked over.
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* CreepyChild: All the Nazi psychic children but Gretel is creepy even to the other Tyke Bombs.
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* KillAllHumans: The ultimate aim of the Eidolons, as the mere existence of [[HumansThroughAlienEyes our form of life is abhorent to them]].
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* TheChessmaster: Gretel. A sociopath with ''perfect precognition''.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The book ends with Marsh's wife pregnant with an unholy child, and the British government taking children and putting them in total isolation to turn them into warlocks]].
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* IntangibleMan: Klaus' willenskrafte. Can only use it as long as he can hold his breath but doesn't have to worry about falling through the floor.
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The novel ''Bitter Seeds'' by Ian Tregillis depicts an AlternateHistory World War II where a Nazi MadScientist figures out how to turn children into powerful psychic soldiers. As a result, the Nazis are indisputably winning the war. A clever British spy witnesses one of these kids doing their thing and realizes his countrymen need a paranormal equalizer of their own. Fortuitously, his best and oldest friend Lord William Beauclerk knows [[SummonMagic a thing or two about the supernatural]] and is willing to [[BloodMagic bleed]] for king and country. Thus, the Milkweed project is born and things then proceed to [[ItGotWorse get worse]]. Oh, ''so'' very much worse.
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The novel ''Bitter Seeds'' by Ian Tregillis depicts an AlternateHistory World War II where a Nazi MadScientist figures out how to turn children into powerful psychic soldiers. As a result, the Nazis are indisputably winning the war. A clever British spy witnesses one of these kids doing their thing and realizes his countrymen need a paranormal equalizer of their own. Fortuitously, his best and oldest friend Lord William Beauclerk knows [[SummonMagic a thing or two about the supernatural]] and is willing to [[BloodMagic bleed]] for king and country. Thus, the Milkweed project is born and things then proceed to [[ItGotWorse get worse]]. Oh, ''so'' very much worse.
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* XanatosGambit: Everything Gretel does.
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* KubrickStare: Gretel on the cover of the paperback.
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* {{Fingore}}: When Will mucks up a negotiation, Marsh has to cut off one of his fingers with garden shears to appease the Eidolons.
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-->''Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you''.
-->'''Habakkuk 1:5 (KJV)'''
-->''There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet''.
-->'''Admiral William Halsey'''
-->''Behold: I give you the Overman.''
-->'''Friedrich Nietzsche'''
''It’s 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between. Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.''
''When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities — a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present — Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.''
The novel ''Bitter Seeds'' by Ian Tregillis depicts an AlternateHistory World War II where a Nazi MadScientist figures out how to turn children into powerful psychic soldiers. As a result, the Nazis are indisputably winning the war. A clever British spy witnesses one of these kids doing their thing and realizes his countrymen need a paranormal equalizer of their own. Fortuitously, his best and oldest friend Lord William Beauclerk knows [[SummonMagic a thing or two about the supernatural]] and is willing to [[BloodMagic bleed]] for king and country. Thus, the Milkweed project is born and things then proceed to [[ItGotWorse get worse]]. Oh, ''so'' very much worse.
The first book of ''TheMilkweedTriptych''. Followed by ''[[Literature/TheColdestWar The Coldest War]]''.
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!!Examples
* AlternateHistory
* BadassNormal: Raybould Marsh has his moments.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Granted, they're fighting ''Nazis'' but still, the British do some exceedingly evil things in the name of king and country.
** Interestingly while the Nazis are pretty much as bad, even if you only talk about the two side's respective supernatural weapons program. The British atrocities get more screen time then their Nazi counterparts.
* BloodMagic - required to summon the Eidolons. Beyond that, it takes more and more blood to summon them each subsequent time.
* BodyHorror: You get psychic powers. Great! Too bad you have to have giant WWII-era batteries wired ''directly into your brain'' to fuel them.
* ConditionalPowers: The kids' powers only work as long as their batteries are charged.
* CreepyChild: All the Nazi psychic children but Gretel is creepy even to the other Tyke Bombs.
* CoolVsAwesome: Battery-powered Nazi psychics vs British warlocks summoning [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Eidolons.
* GentlemanWizard: Lord William Beauclerk
* {{Ghostapo}} / StupidJetpackHitler: The Gotterelektrongruppe ''started out'' as Thule Society occult hogwash, then MadScientist Doctor Von Westarp applied the scientific method to things and got his battery-operated psykers.
* IntangibleMan: Klaus' willenskrafte. Can only use it as long as he can hold his breath but doesn't have to worry about falling through the floor.
* {{Invisibility}}: Heike.
* ItGotWorse: Very much so for everyone concerned.
* LanguageOfMagic: Knowledge of Enochian is required to negotiate with the Eidolons once summoned.
* MadScientist: Doctor Von Westarp.
* MindOverMatter: Kammler is an extremely powerful (and extremely brain-damaged) telekinetic.
* MundaneUtility: Reinhardt comes up with a way to make roads in the desert with his pyrokinesis. It works -- barely.
* OnePersonOnePower: each child gets one power and one power only.
* OracularUrchin: Gretel.
* PlayingWithFire: Reinhardt is a mean bullying pyrokinetic.
* [[spoiler: PoweredByAForsakenChild]]: The means by which the Enochian lexicon was derived.
* PsychicPowers: The ''willenskrafte'' wielded by the children. Pyrokinesis, telekinesis, phase-shifting, invisibility and, scariest of all, decades-range precognition.
* SpyFiction - of the Stale Beer variety.
* SummonMagic: the British Warlocks can summon the Eidolons. Then the negotiations begin.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Marsh figures out how to get the Eidolons to do this for them.
* WorldWarII
-->''Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you''.
-->'''Habakkuk 1:5 (KJV)'''
-->''There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet''.
-->'''Admiral William Halsey'''
-->''Behold: I give you the Overman.''
-->'''Friedrich Nietzsche'''
''It’s 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between. Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.''
''When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities — a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present — Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.''
The novel ''Bitter Seeds'' by Ian Tregillis depicts an AlternateHistory World War II where a Nazi MadScientist figures out how to turn children into powerful psychic soldiers. As a result, the Nazis are indisputably winning the war. A clever British spy witnesses one of these kids doing their thing and realizes his countrymen need a paranormal equalizer of their own. Fortuitously, his best and oldest friend Lord William Beauclerk knows [[SummonMagic a thing or two about the supernatural]] and is willing to [[BloodMagic bleed]] for king and country. Thus, the Milkweed project is born and things then proceed to [[ItGotWorse get worse]]. Oh, ''so'' very much worse.
The first book of ''TheMilkweedTriptych''. Followed by ''[[Literature/TheColdestWar The Coldest War]]''.
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!!Examples
* AlternateHistory
* BadassNormal: Raybould Marsh has his moments.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Granted, they're fighting ''Nazis'' but still, the British do some exceedingly evil things in the name of king and country.
** Interestingly while the Nazis are pretty much as bad, even if you only talk about the two side's respective supernatural weapons program. The British atrocities get more screen time then their Nazi counterparts.
* BloodMagic - required to summon the Eidolons. Beyond that, it takes more and more blood to summon them each subsequent time.
* BodyHorror: You get psychic powers. Great! Too bad you have to have giant WWII-era batteries wired ''directly into your brain'' to fuel them.
* ConditionalPowers: The kids' powers only work as long as their batteries are charged.
* CreepyChild: All the Nazi psychic children but Gretel is creepy even to the other Tyke Bombs.
* CoolVsAwesome: Battery-powered Nazi psychics vs British warlocks summoning [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Eidolons.
* GentlemanWizard: Lord William Beauclerk
* {{Ghostapo}} / StupidJetpackHitler: The Gotterelektrongruppe ''started out'' as Thule Society occult hogwash, then MadScientist Doctor Von Westarp applied the scientific method to things and got his battery-operated psykers.
* IntangibleMan: Klaus' willenskrafte. Can only use it as long as he can hold his breath but doesn't have to worry about falling through the floor.
* {{Invisibility}}: Heike.
* ItGotWorse: Very much so for everyone concerned.
* LanguageOfMagic: Knowledge of Enochian is required to negotiate with the Eidolons once summoned.
* MadScientist: Doctor Von Westarp.
* MindOverMatter: Kammler is an extremely powerful (and extremely brain-damaged) telekinetic.
* MundaneUtility: Reinhardt comes up with a way to make roads in the desert with his pyrokinesis. It works -- barely.
* OnePersonOnePower: each child gets one power and one power only.
* OracularUrchin: Gretel.
* PlayingWithFire: Reinhardt is a mean bullying pyrokinetic.
* [[spoiler: PoweredByAForsakenChild]]: The means by which the Enochian lexicon was derived.
* PsychicPowers: The ''willenskrafte'' wielded by the children. Pyrokinesis, telekinesis, phase-shifting, invisibility and, scariest of all, decades-range precognition.
* SpyFiction - of the Stale Beer variety.
* SummonMagic: the British Warlocks can summon the Eidolons. Then the negotiations begin.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Marsh figures out how to get the Eidolons to do this for them.
* WorldWarII
