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“Operation Dandelion” is the code name for the Nazi plot to drop a nuclear bomb on Japan. The Nazis hope that by dropping this bomb, they will wipe out the Japanese government and then achieve world domination at last. As Rudolf Wegener explains to General Tedeki, the Nazis are split on whether or not they approve of Operation Dandelion. J. Goebbels is in favor; R. Heydrich is against, as he prefers to focus on the Nazis’ space program.
Operation Dandelion Quotes in The Man in the High Castle
The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Operation Dandelion or refer to Operation Dandelion. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12
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Nevertheless, Mr. Baynes thought, the crucial point lies not in the present, not in either my death or the death of the two SD men; it lies—hypothetically—in the future. What has happened here is justified, or not justified, by what happens later. Can we perhaps save the lives of millions, all Japan in fact?
But the man manipulating the vegetable stalks could not think of that; the present, the actuality, was too tangible, the dead and dying Germans on the floor of his office.
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Chapter 15
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And what will that leave, that Third World Insanity? Will that put an end to all life, of every kind, everywhere? When our planet becomes a dead planet, by our own hands?
[Baynes] could not believe that. Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive.
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Operation Dandelion Term Timeline in The Man in the High Castle
The timeline below shows where the term Operation Dandelion appears in The Man in the High Castle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 12
...a loose association of powerful men, not any formal arm of government. Then he describes Operation Dandelion : the Germans will manufacture conflict in the Rocky Mountain States as a pretext for...
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...death. Baynes also tells Tedeki that certain powerful Nazis, including Goebbels, are in favor of Operation Dandelion . However, Heydrich—one of the most feared Nazis—is against Dandelion. Since Heydrich is in charge...
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...actions may have saved millions of lives, because now the Japanese can prepare themselves for Operation Dandelion . But for Tagomi himself, “the present, the actuality, was too tangible, the dead and...
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Chapter 14
...if he can ever return to his office—and even if he eventually can, he thinks Operation Dandelion will have destroyed the entire city by then. Tagomi rides the Cable Car to the...
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