 Germany's space program is based at the old rocket-testing facility at Peenemünde, on the Baltic coast.The extent of space exploration is not specified, but a conversation between March and Maguire suggests that German is justified in boasting about being ahead of the US in the Space Race.British scholar Nancy Browne noted the similarities between the ending of "Fatherland" and that of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls"