In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Presence of Mine Enemies (ISBN 0-451-45959-8) is a novel by writer Harry Turtledove. An alternate history story set in Berlin about the year 2010 in a world in which the United States had remained isolationist and Germany had won the Second World War.

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Harry Turtledove - Alternate history - Berlin - United States - Isolationist - Germany - Second World War

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The story centers around Heinrich Gimpel and a small group of Jews who have managed to survive the holocaust by keeping their identities secret. Of particular notice is the strikingly accurate portrayal of what it is like for a person (Alicia Gimpel in the book) to discover that they belong to a wrongfully despised minority whom they have been taught all their life to passionately hate. In this sense, this work of fiction is strikingly relevant to some minority groups in the Western world today.

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Jews - Holocaust - Minority - Fiction - Some minority groups - Western world

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