"4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World is a somewhat obscure wargame by Task Force Games
based on the SF-novel "The Iron Dream" by
the Jewish author Norman Spinrad. This very controversial novel
describes a parallel world in which Hitler wasn't successful with his
"Kampf" in Germany and became a successful SF-pulp-novelist in the US. The main part of the book is the actual text of Hitler's "Iron Dream", a
pulp-tale about "Ubermenschen" conquering a future world filled with
mutant "scum." The idea of Spinrad's novel was to expose fascist
tendencies in 50's American literature. The TFG designers transported
this "theme" into a board game which plays like a wargame: future Nazis
against future mutants. The names of all protagonists have been changed
in an apparent attempt to avoid infringement, but the game clearly takes
its slightly tongue-in-cheek approach directly from the book."
the novel by Norman Spinrad
Sounds fucking AWESOME!!
Brian
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