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* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: When the demon Bes brings a German priest back to life and takes over his body, it quickly transforms him, giving him sharp teeth, [[RedEyesTakeWarning ruby-red eyes]], and short HornsOfVillainy.
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** Episode 15: BES features a more gruesome one. The titular demon makes a bargain with a desperate and doomed German priest about to be killed by Cossacks on the eastern front in northwestern Russia, promising a long life if he submits to it. After he's killed, it brings his body back to life and goes on a rampage against the Cossacks in the area.

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** Episode 15: BES features a more gruesome one. The titular demon makes a bargain with a desperate and doomed German priest about to be killed by Cossacks on the eastern front in northwestern Russia, promising a long life if he submits to it. After he's killed, killed a minute later, it brings his body back to life and goes on a rampage against the Cossacks in the area.
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* DyingAsYourself: In Episode 15, after its mortal body is eventually slain by the combined efforts of a group of Russian Partisans, the demon Bes offers their dying leader a bargain: his life in exchange for his submission, the same deal it offered a German priest before taking over his body. Said leader wisely ignores the demon's words in favor of this trope.

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* DyingAsYourself: In Episode 15, [[spoiler: after its mortal body is eventually slain by the combined efforts of a group of Russian Partisans, the demon Bes offers their dying leader a bargain: his life in exchange for his submission, the same deal it offered a German priest before taking over his body. Said leader wisely ignores the demon's words in favor of this trope.]]
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** Episode 15: BES features a more gruesome one. The titular demon makes a bargain with a desperate and doomed German priest about to be killed by Cossacks on the eastern front in northwestern Russia, promising a long life if he submits to it. After he's killed, it brings his body back to life and goes on a rampage against the Cossacks in the area.


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* DyingAsYourself: In Episode 15, after its mortal body is eventually slain by the combined efforts of a group of Russian Partisans, the demon Bes offers their dying leader a bargain: his life in exchange for his submission, the same deal it offered a German priest before taking over his body. Said leader wisely ignores the demon's words in favor of this trope.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: In "Short Story: GEDROCHT" and "The Ghoul", there are no explicitly supernatural or otherworldly horrors at play here; simply people whose minds were among the casualties of WWI.

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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: In "Short Story: GEDROCHT" and "The Ghoul", there are no explicitly supernatural or otherworldly horrors at play here; play; simply people whose minds were among the casualties of WWI.WWI.

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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: In "Short Story: GEDROCHT" and "The Ghoul", there are no explicitly supernatural or otherworldly horrors at play here; simply people whose minds were among the casualties of WWI.



* Mundanger: After several episodes of explicitly supernatural and alien beings, the threat in "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN" turns out to be comparatively more grounded: a vicious, gigantic wolf-dog hybrid in custom armor.



* SeperateSceneStorytelling: The "PURGATORY" short stories take place during the events of Episode 12, which tells the much longer story of how the Soviets unleashed the living dead on Stalingrad to wipe out the Nazi invaders.

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* Orichalcum: The Atlantean technology is crafted using a lightweight, but extremely sturdy metal that Dr. Hoch cannot identify.

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* Orichalcum: {{Orichalcum}}: The Atlantean technology is crafted using a lightweight, but extremely sturdy metal that Dr. Hoch cannot identify.identify.
* OriginsEpisode: "Short Story: GEDROCHT" is this to "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN". It was confirmed in the comments that Anslow eventually became the mysterious hermit from that episode, and the puppies from the end of the episode presumably became the ancestors of the hybrids he was breeding. "The Ghoul" is one for GEDROCHT, showing the mysterious cannibal leader’s backstory.



* OriginsEpisode: "Short Story: GEDROCHT" is this to "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN". It was confirmed in the comments that Anslow eventually became the mysterious hermit from that episode, and the puppies from the end of the episode presumably became the ancestors of the hybrids he was breeding. "The Ghoul" is one for GEDROCHT, showing the mysterious cannibal leader’s backstory.
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* PrequelEpisode: "Short Story: GEDROCHT" is this to "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN". It was confirmed in the comments that Anslow eventually became the mysterious hermit from that episode, and the puppies from the end of the episode presumably became the ancestors of the hybrids he was breeding. "The Ghoul" is one for GEDROCHT, showing the mysterious cannibal leader’s backstory.

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* PrequelEpisode: OriginsEpisode: "Short Story: GEDROCHT" is this to "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN". It was confirmed in the comments that Anslow eventually became the mysterious hermit from that episode, and the puppies from the end of the episode presumably became the ancestors of the hybrids he was breeding. "The Ghoul" is one for GEDROCHT, showing the mysterious cannibal leader’s backstory.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Graf Von Stalheim from "Short Story: ANATHEMA" was a member of old German aristocracy who somehow ingratiated himself to the Nazis. He also was behind the nightmarish plan to use escaped POWs to spread a magic green fire among the Allied bases. 

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* AristocratsAreEvil: Graf Von Stalheim from "Short Story: ANATHEMA" was a member of old German aristocracy who somehow ingratiated himself to the Nazis. He also was behind the nightmarish plan to use escaped POWs [=POWs=] to spread a magic green fire among the Allied bases. 



* LatinIsMagic: In "Short Story: ANATHEMA", a Latin phrase is found among the papers in the escaped prisoners' clothes: "Et nunc flammam advoco qui percutiet omnes ante me states et nunquam exstinguant". In English, it means "And now, I summon forth a flame that shall smite all who stand before me, and never extinguish". When recited in Latin before the specially-tattooed POWs, they immediately burst into a horrifying green flame.

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* LatinIsMagic: In "Short Story: ANATHEMA", a Latin phrase is found among the papers in the escaped prisoners' clothes: "Et nunc flammam advoco qui percutiet omnes ante me states et nunquam exstinguant". In English, it means "And now, I summon forth a flame that shall smite all who stand before me, and never extinguish". When recited in Latin before the specially-tattooed POWs, [=POWs=], they immediately burst into a horrifying green flame.



* WhyAmITicking: The escaped POWs in "Short Story: ANATHEMA" were prepared for their escape by the Nazis, who had their persons prepared to become the source of a magic green fire that would kill them and devastate the Allied camps.

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* WhyAmITicking: The escaped POWs [=POWs=] in "Short Story: ANATHEMA" were prepared for their escape by the Nazis, who had their persons prepared to become the source of a magic green fire that would kill them and devastate the Allied camps.
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* Hellfire: The mysterious fires from "Short Story: ANATHEMA" are heavily hinted to be this; they're summoned with a magic spell, colored a brilliant green, burn and spread at horrifying speed, and absolutely will not go out until whatever they're burning is completely charred... or until a pastor begins to recite Latin prayers over them.

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* Hellfire: {{Hellfire}}: The mysterious fires from "Short Story: ANATHEMA" are heavily hinted to be this; they're summoned with a magic spell, colored a brilliant green, burn and spread at horrifying speed, and absolutely will not go out until whatever they're burning is completely charred... or until a pastor begins to recite Latin prayers over them.
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* BewareTheLiving: The reason the Lazur Facility is so dangerous: a Nazi Lieutenant engineer, having watched his entire squadron fall to the undead, began retooling the place, making the zombies even more dangerous and rigging it up with BoobyTraps.

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* BewareTheLiving: The reason the Lazur Facility is so dangerous: a Nazi Lieutenant engineer, having watched his entire squadron fall to the undead, began retooling the place, making the zombies even more dangerous and rigging it up with BoobyTraps.[[BoobyTrap Booby Traps]].

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* AcidBath: Corporal Bulgan in "PURGATORY: DUTY" forces the Nazi Lieutenant into one of the acid vats after finally getting his hands on him. A few of the zombies were already lurking in other vats, but it only made them more dangerous.

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* AcidBath: AcidPool: Corporal Bulgan in "PURGATORY: DUTY" forces the Nazi Lieutenant into one of the acid vats after finally getting his hands on him. A few of the zombies were already lurking in other vats, but it only made them more dangerous.



** Inverted in "Short Story: GEDROCHT"; the leader of the lunatics is the only one of them wearing a gas mask. Said mask is decorated with a pair of short horns.

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** Inverted in "Short Story: GEDROCHT"; the leader of the lunatics is the only one of them wearing a gas mask. Said mask is decorated with a pair of short horns. [[spoiler: John Gregory apparently developed a fixation on his gas mask when he was the only member of his company who could get it on in time to survive a gas attack. Years later, he seldom takes it off.]]


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* PrequelEpisode: "Short Story: GEDROCHT" is this to "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN". It was confirmed in the comments that Anslow eventually became the mysterious hermit from that episode, and the puppies from the end of the episode presumably became the ancestors of the hybrids he was breeding. "The Ghoul" is one for GEDROCHT, showing the mysterious cannibal leader’s backstory.


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* RightHandAttackdog: Two gigantic ones with nail-studded leather armor are the mysterious cannibal leader’s last line of defense in "Short Story: GEDROCHT".


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* SeperateSceneStorytelling: The "PURGATORY" short stories take place during the events of Episode 12, which tells the much longer story of how the Soviets unleashed the living dead on Stalingrad to wipe out the Nazi invaders.


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* StartOfDarkness: John Gregory from "The Ghoul" apparently lost his mind while trapped in barbed wire for days, watching his company die in agony in front of him.


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* TunnelNetwork: The army of lunatics in "Short Story: GEDROCHT" have made their home in the sewers and underground tunnels beneath Courtrai.


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* WarIsHell: The entire series has this attitude, but "Short Story: GEDROCHT" and "The Ghoul" slam it home even more than others in the series; the fact that so many people were driven mad by the horrors of WWI, that they grouped into a single nightmarish cannibal horde without any other prompting whatsoever, speaks volumes.


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* WeightLossHorror: The people of the horde in "Short Story: GEDROCHT" are constantly rail-thin and starving, as their diet generally consists of whatever soldiers they can find and overwhelm.
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*AcidBath: Corporal Bulgan in "PURGATORY: DUTY" forces the Nazi Lieutenant into one of the acid vats after finally getting his hands on him. A few of the zombies were already lurking in other vats, but it only made them more dangerous.


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** Subverted in "Short Story: GEDROCHT". The Ensington Strappers - the remains of a small criminal gang from England - volunteered to join the army en masse in an attempt to stick together. Their leader, Carl Anslow, has his weak-willed commanding officer wrapped around his finger at the start of the story.


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* CannibalTribe: "Short Story: GEDROCHT" features an ersatz one made of soldiers who went insane from the horrors of WWI, they're all eerily thin and emaciated, and live in the sewers beneath Courtrai, Belgium.


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* DistinguishingMark: In "Short story: GEDROCHT", Anslow is deeply disturbed to see the cannibal leader has a tattoo on his shoulder he recognizes as the symbol of a Midlands football team… meaning the lunatic grew up not very far away from himself.


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* EliteZombie: Some of the undead in the Lazur Facility have been marinating in deadly acid, making their bodies horribly corrosive and their grasp potentially deadly in its own right. Others have had helmets bolted to their heads and snow goggles over their eyes, and made to wear heavy winter jackets – light armor that neutralizes the fast, efficient bayonetting tactics of the Siberians and forces them to switch to firearms.


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** It's heavily hinted that Corporal Anslow from "Short Story: GEDROCHT" became the mysterious hermit seen in "Custodian" who sicced a massive hybrid dog on the Nazis.


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** Inverted in "Short Story: GEDROCHT"; the leader of the lunatics is the only one of them wearing a gas mask. Said mask is decorated with a pair of short horns.
* GeneralRipper: General Zhukov has no qualms about using the undead as a last-ditch resort to take Stalingrad back; when it succeeds, he's only annoyed that it took them longer than he expected to finish the job. Several comments on the video claim that this is very much something the real Zhukov would have done.


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* HistoryRepeats: The situation in "Short Story: GEDROCHT" starts off eerily similar to the events of Episode 11: CUSTODIAN, with a series of nocturnal attacks in northeastern Belgium on sentries some distance from the front lines… but almost thirty years earlier. It’s eventually shown that the two incidents are indeed connected.


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* HollywoodAcid: There’s quite a lot of it, in various huge vats all over the Lazur Facility. Worse, the majority of it has long since spilled in the events of the last few months, rendering the area a PollutedWasteland and making the floor into weak, vaguely-traversable Swiss cheese.


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* NaziZombies: The Nazi officers besieging Stalingrad, upon hearing of a horde of cannibalistic Russians attacking with their bare hands, believe that the Russians have been driven to desperation and are about to collapse. They send their own soldiers to press in harder than ever... a lethal mistake. The mindless undead swell their ranks with the German soldiers.


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* NightmarishFactory: The Lazur Facility. It started off dangerous as a chemical weapons factory in Soviet Russia. It got worse when the Nazis invaded Stalingrad, and the workers abandoned it, and then it was overrun by zombies. Finally, a Nazi Lieutenant engineer retooled the entire place into a giant death trap for anyone coming in.


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* Orichalcum: The Atlantean technology is crafted using a lightweight, but extremely sturdy metal that Dr. Hoch cannot identify.


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* PretendWereDead: The unnamed Nazi Lieutenant in the Lazur Facility seems to have kept himself safe from the undead by adopting their shambling gait. He’s given away when the Siberians start winning, and one of the "zombies" at the back of the horde suddenly bolts for safety.
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* DireBeast: The AttackAnimal from "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN" turns out to be a ViciousAttackDog-SavageWolves hybrid, but larger than either and wearing a set of custom-made armor. It's so insanely strong and aggressive that it barely registers shots from a Luger, and survives an insane amount of damage before finally going down.

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* DireBeast: The AttackAnimal from "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN" turns out to be a ViciousAttackDog-SavageWolves an AngryGuardDog-SavageWolves hybrid, but larger than either and wearing a set of custom-made armor. It's so insanely strong and aggressive that it barely registers shots from a Luger, and survives an insane amount of damage before finally going down.
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* DireBeast: The AttackAnimal from "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN" turns out to be a ViciousAttackDog/SavageWolves hybrid, but larger than either and wearing a set of custom-made armor. It's so insanely strong and aggressive that it barely registers shots from a Luger, and survives an insane amount of damage before finally going down.

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* DireBeast: The AttackAnimal from "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN" turns out to be a ViciousAttackDog/SavageWolves ViciousAttackDog-SavageWolves hybrid, but larger than either and wearing a set of custom-made armor. It's so insanely strong and aggressive that it barely registers shots from a Luger, and survives an insane amount of damage before finally going down.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Graf Von Stalheim from "Short Story: ANATHEMA" was a member of old German aristocracy who somehow ingratiated himself to the Nazis. He also was behind the nightmarish plan to use escaped POWs to spread a magic green fire among the Allied bases. 


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* DireBeast: The AttackAnimal from "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN" turns out to be a ViciousAttackDog/SavageWolves hybrid, but larger than either and wearing a set of custom-made armor. It's so insanely strong and aggressive that it barely registers shots from a Luger, and survives an insane amount of damage before finally going down.


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* DrivenToSuicide: In "Episode 12: PURGATORY", two German tanks are immobilized in the rubble and surrounded by the undead horde. After three days of being surrounded, the people inside end up shooting themselves.


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* GodWasMyCopilot: In "Short Story: LORE", Odin was Private Mitchell's, and Loki was Commander Zobel's, quietly giving divine aid to both, with Loki posing as a German sympathizer and Odin as a member of Milorg.


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* Hellfire: The mysterious fires from "Short Story: ANATHEMA" are heavily hinted to be this; they're summoned with a magic spell, colored a brilliant green, burn and spread at horrifying speed, and absolutely will not go out until whatever they're burning is completely charred... or until a pastor begins to recite Latin prayers over them.


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* LaResistance: Odin (Yes, THAT Odin) claims to be part of Milorg, the Norwegian resistance movement against the Nazi occupation, as part of his human guise.
* LatinIsMagic: In "Short Story: ANATHEMA", a Latin phrase is found among the papers in the escaped prisoners' clothes: "Et nunc flammam advoco qui percutiet omnes ante me states et nunquam exstinguant". In English, it means "And now, I summon forth a flame that shall smite all who stand before me, and never extinguish". When recited in Latin before the specially-tattooed POWs, they immediately burst into a horrifying green flame.


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* LesCollaborateurs: Loki (Yes, THAT Loki) claims to be a German sympathizer as part of his human guise.


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* LonersAreFreaks: In "Episode 11: CUSTODIAN", nobody in the nearby town knew anything about the hermit, he was something of a social misfit. Zigzagged a bit in that, while [[spoiler: he bred a horrifyingly powerful, dangerous breed of attack canine and kept the younger ones in a cramped underground kennel, he only tested the animals on the occupying Nazi forces and seemed to otherwise keep a tight leash on the test animal.]]


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* PhysicalGod: Odin and Loki are both this, manipulating events in Norway like two players with a chessboard.


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** It seems the Nazis had more success handling the sub-mariner tech than the British had with the alien tech; the armored frogmen that sank the ''HMS Ellice'' have clear Nazi tattoos and symbols on beneath their armor.


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* WhyAmITicking: The escaped POWs in "Short Story: ANATHEMA" were prepared for their escape by the Nazis, who had their persons prepared to become the source of a magic green fire that would kill them and devastate the Allied camps.

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** In "Short Story: HUAKA'I PO", the American soldiers who were summoned by Billy's message on the radio at the beginning don't turn up until after the Night Marchers leave.



* CompellingVoice: Odin and Loki use this on Private Mitchell and Commander Zobel, respectively, to get them to listen to what appears to be some random civilian giving them suggestions.



* TheDeadHaveEyes: The Night Marchers are explicitly mentioned as having rotting or missing eyes, but they still have no problem "seeing" Billy and the Japanese soldier.



* DontLookAtMe: Zigzagged. Billy remembers old stories that say he shouldn't look at the Night Marchers, even as they begin to try to force him up to look at them. It seems to work, since they eventually let him go.



* EvilVersusEvil: In "PALADIN", the EldritchAbomination known as [[TheWormThatWalks Blight]] ends up facing [[spoiler:and being defeated by Lucius, the cannibalistic ImmortalSerialKiller from "ELAH"]].

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* EvilVersusEvil: In "PALADIN", the EldritchAbomination known as [[TheWormThatWalks Blight]] ends up facing [[spoiler:and being defeated by Lucius, the cannibalistic ImmortalSerialKiller from "ELAH"]]. Lucius is a horrible, extremely dangerous person, but Blight is a more immediate threat that won't even pretend to play nice with the Romans.


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* FogOfWar: The Kriegsmarine base in "Short Story: LORE" has artificial fog generators that make it almost impossible for Allied bombers to target.


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* HiddenDepths: The deserter Enzo is a bit more sympathetic than one might expect, apparently he and Luca had survived the slaughter of most of the rest of the battalion by dragging a wounded Captain off the field, and he's doing his best to get Luca home even as the Wendigo curse starts taking him over. That said, he's still not totally sympathetic, since he doesn't even try to pretend he's not deserting.


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* NoNameGiven: The Japanese soldier from "Short Story: HUAKA'I PO" is never named, given a ranking, or any information about him.


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* NoodleIncident: In "Short Story: PALADIN", Lucius mentions a tussle with the sub-mariners in the past, and a blood-drinking demon in Germania.

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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: In “PURGATORY: THE OATH”, Dr. Reische and the Medical staff in a German First Aid camp outside Stalingrad want to stay at their position, even as the Russians approach, to try and find a cure for the undead plague that is destroying the German army. Meanwhile, Officer Otto Kleist and the SS argue for pulling out immediately, as they will not be kindly received if the Russians reach their position.



* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Dr. Reische is the last survivor of his German First Aid Camp outside of Stalingrad. His studies of the undead plague’s effect on the body, and the bare-bones hints of finding the first suggestion of a cure, mean that the Russians spare him when they wipe out the rest of the camp, and make it abundantly clear that he only lives so long as he continues his studies and gives them useful information.



* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: This turns out to be very much a thing, to the point where [[spoiler: a number of time travelers went back to the 1940s to ''prevent'' the many, many assassination attempts on his life from being successful.]]

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* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: This turns out to be very much a thing, to the point where [[spoiler: a number of time travelers went back to the 1940s to ''prevent'' at least one of the many, many assassination attempts on his life from being successful.successful. Moreover, at least some of them were caused by a rogue time-traveler’s attempt to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by assassinating Hitler... Not to prevent the holocaust or the war, but to stop the war partway through and elicit a more comfortable deal for Germany and prevent its division during the Cold War.]]
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** In “PURGATORY: PERSPECTIVE”, a Russian sniper briefly warns some of his German counterparts about the undead approaching them from behind on a different rooftop by shooting the approaching ghouls.
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* StableTimeLoop: Short stories “BRUCKE” and “ZYKLISCH” form one. An American soldier in the trenches of WWI witnesses another American in a strange uniform materialize out of a strange purple fog. The stranger manages to take down a number of German Stormtroopers, then vanishes into the fog once more with a German prisoner, leaving behind an old pistol. The soldier who witnessed all this takes the pistol for himself, and in the years that follow, is disturbed when his son grows up to eerily resemble the stranger, and then enlists in the army. His last act before his son leaves is to give him the old pistol the stranger left behind. His son goes off to WWII, and finds himself wreathed in a strange purple fog during one battle. In the fog, he suddenly comes across a number of German stormtroopers dressed like those from WWI…

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