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[i] Fräulein: young lady (German)
[ii] In March 1943 Adolf Hamann, the commandant of Orel — the Russian city occupied by the Germans — issued this little-known order about “alimony payments to children born of Wehrmacht fathers”. The reason for the Slavs’ recognition as Aryan was simple: Germany needed to replenish its troops after its Stalingrad losses.
[iii] In the real world, in 1943 the Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler prepared a plan to adopt Scandinavian mythology as the country’s official religion. The plan provided for the building of Viking temples as well as the execution of the Pope. However, he never proposed the plan to Hitler.
[iv] By “the 1923 Revolution” the narrator means the Beer Hall Putsch — a Nazi coup attempt in Bavaria in 1923.
[v] The Third Reich is considered the first country in the world that began a government-supported anti-smoking campaign.
[vi] The Yaoi and the Yuri: respectively gay males and females in the context of Manga and Anime. The popularity of all things Japanese in the Third Reich has apparently lead to the widespread use of these two terms.
[vii] Grayling, dogfish and omul — types of fresh-water fish indigenous to Lake Baikal.
[viii] Issued by President Roosevelt, the deportation order of February 19 1942 sent 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent to special “relocation centers”.
[ix] The Amur Republic: an independent state that existed in the Russian Far East from May 26 1921 to October 25 1922. Recognized by both the US and Japan, the Amur Republic ceased to exist with the taking of Vladivostok by Bolshevik troops.
[x] Samovar: a traditional 19-century water urn that became synonymous with Russian tea culture
[xi] Exhale: Russian drinking traditions prescribe to always exhale before downing a stiff drink in one draught; doing so prevents the drinker’s breath from being seized.
[xii] Yukio Seki: the twenty-three-year-old Japanese kamikaze pilot who on October 25 1944 rammed into a USS carrier in the Leyte Gulf. This became the first kamikaze attack in human history.
[xiii] Heisei: the Heisei Era. In the Japanese calendar, the ascension of a new emperor generally starts a new era. The current Heisei Era started with the ascension of Emperor Akihito in 1989.
[xiv] Thorrablot and Disting: Norse mid-winter and end-of-winter festivals still celebrated in Iceland
[xv] Lebensborn: meaning a “source of Life” in German. Controlled by the SS Reichsführer Himmler personally, the 38 Lebensborn centers in Europe dedicated themselves to the raising of “purebred Aryans”. Their Norwegian orphanages alone contained 12,000 children. In Poland, Lebensborn workers forcefully removed young children from their parents in order to “Germanize” them. The Nuremberg trials, however, acquitted Sollmann as head of Lebensborn.
[xvi] W.E.H.R.M.A.C.H.T.: a satirical allusion to S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the bestselling Russian science fiction series based on the computer game of the same name (which in turn was loosely based on the classic of Russian science fiction, Roadside Picnic by Arcady and Boris Strugatsky). Featuring dozens of novels from both leading and upcoming Russian sci fi authors, the series is set in a post-apocalyptic Chernobyl inhabited by aggressive mutants and ruthless mercenaries.
[xvii] Collective farms: when occupying the USSR in 1941-1943, the German administration decided against disbanding collective farms, believing them to be “the best way of controlling farmers”.
[xviii] Ostermann: a dynasty of major Russian 18th and 19th century statesmen of German origin.
[xix] Minister von Kleinmichel (1793-1869): one of the favorites of the Emperor Nicholas I who took the post of the Russian Minister of Transport in 1842–1855.
[xx] Boris Stürmer held the post of the Russian Prime minister from January 10 to November 20 1916. Was arrested by the Bolsheviks after the revolution of 1917 and died in prison.
[xxi] Two Katharinas: the Empress Catherine I (1684-1727), the lowborn Lithuanian wife of Peter the Great who ruled Russia briefly after his death, and Catherine II “the Great” (1729-1796), the German wife of Peter the Great’s grandson Emperor Peter III, who deposed her own husband and went on to rule Russia in 1762-1796.
[xxii] Anna Leopoldovna: the half-Russian Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by her German husband Anthony Ulrich, in 1740 she became the regent of their baby son, the new Russian Emperor Ivan VI. In 1741, the baby Emperor was deposed by Peter the Great’s daughter Elizabeth Petrovna who exiled the entire family to the village of Kholmogory.
[xxiii] The Priest makes a mistake here: the first King Kong movie was set in New York.
[xxiv] Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991): a Soviet statesman, Stalin’s close supporter and associate.
[xxv] Dassler sneakers: the Dassler brothers were prominent German shoemakers specializing in sports footwear. Both were passionate Hitler’s supporters since 1920. After their factory was confiscated in 1945, one of the two brothers, Adolf (Adi) went on to create Adidas while the other, Rudolf, became the founder of Puma.
[xxvi] The Head of the Kwantung Army: a Japanese general in charge of this part of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1932-1945 in Manchuria, he had the right to cancel any decision made by the Manchurian Emperor Pu Yi.
[xxvii] The Battle on the Ice: the 1242 winter battle on Lake Chudskoe (a.k.a. Lake Peipus) in the medieval Russian Novgorod Republic between the invading Crusader troops of the Teutonic Order and the Novgorod army led by 20-year-old Prince Alexander Nevsky. The battle ended in the Germans’ defeat; many of the Teutonic knights drowned as the ice broke and the German warriors’ suits of armor dragged them underwater. Alexander returned victorious to Novgorod, allegedly uttering the Biblical phrase, “All they that take the sword against us shall perish with the sword!”
[xxviii] The Time of Troubles 1604-1612 – the interregnum period in the history of Russia when the old Royal dynasty of the Rurikids (descendants of Rurik) had already discontinued with the death of Tsar Feodor I in 1598, allowing for numerous impostors supported by foreign (mainly Polish) troops to take their chance at seizing the Russian throne. Finally in 1612, the 16-year-old Michael Romanov — the late Feodor I’s closest eligible male relative — was elected by the National Assembly to become the new tsar while a nationwide war on foreign invaders, led by Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and merchant Kosma Minin, liberated the country from the Polish and mercenary troops.
[xxix] Duke Ernst Johann von Bühren (1690-1771) – the favorite of Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna and later regent of the baby Emperor Ivan VI, known for his sadistic cruelty and ruthless anti-Russian sentiment. His control of the Russian state manifested itself through unlimited torture and execution of any potential undesirables. Common Russian people hated von Bühren, nicknaming his unofficial rule “the German yoke”.
[xxx] Polizei: members of the Hil
fspolizei, the local collaborators’ Auxiliary Police force set up by the Nazis in the occupied territories to help keep the population in check. Often more brutal than the SS and the Gestapo themselves, the polizei were usually rectruited from the dregs of the local society seeking to wreak revenge on their neighbors. In Russian, the word polizei became synonymous with a murderous Nazi collaborator.
[xxxi] Hara-no-kuroi-hito: “literally, “a man with a black stomach”, a Japanese expression used to describe a despicable traitor. In Japan, a man’s stomach is considered the vessel of his vital force; in this respect it’s the equivalent of the European “heart”. The idea behind the ritual of seppuku (hara-kiri) is to expose one’s stomach by slicing it open to show that it’s pure with no black thoughts harbored inside.
[xxxii] Leonid Utyosov — the stage name of a leading Russian Jewish jazz singer and band leader Lazar Weissbein (1895-1982) who stood at the origins of Russian jazz and popular music.
[xxxiii] Bread and salt: the ancient Slavic tradition of greeting respected guests by offering them a lavishly decorated loaf of bread topped with a salt cellar. The guests are supposed to break off some of the bread, dip it into the salt and eat it to show their acceptance of the hosts’ hospitality. Here, however, this tradition is used as a sarcastic allusion to the Germans’ initial advance into the Russian territory where some local communities, embittered with the Soviet regime, greeted the Nazi invaders as “liberators” with flowers and cheers, offering them bread and salt. As the German troops began their retreat later in the war, quite a few of those communities were gunned down or burned alive by SS squads mopping up whole areas of Western Russia.