The social story of SS-GB (1978), by Len Deighton, concludes with a US commando raid into Nazi Great Britain, to rescue British nuclear scientists, while the British Resistance remain hopeful of eventual military liberation by the US. The Ultimate Solution (1973), by Eric Norden, shows the Nazified people and society of the US as a morally hopeless nation and state a state of affairs that concludes with a nuclear war between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Speculative literature about hypothetical military victories by the Axis Powers has generally been English-language literary work from the British Commonwealth and the United States speculative and analytical stories about the protagonists’ personal experience of military defeat and of foreign military occupation. The literary tone of alternative history fiction presents the military victory of the Axis Powers as a melancholy background, against which the reader sees the unfolding of political plots in a socially strained atmosphere of foreign occupation and socio-economic domination. In the essay "Why are We Attracted to Nightmares of Nazi Victory? Wasn't the Actual Nazi History Bad Enough?", Helen White stated that a hypothetical world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War is a harsher and grimmer place to live than the real world in which Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers lost the War in 1945. Wochenspruch der NSDAP 26 January 1941 claims that "National Socialism is the guarantor of victory". Īcademics, such as Gavriel David Rosenfeld in The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (2005), have researched the media representations of 'Nazi victory'. The term Pax Germanica was applied to the hypothetical Imperial German victory in the First World War (1914–1918), which usage derives from the term Peace of Westphalia used in the Latin-language documents that formally ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). The literature uses the Latin term Pax Germanica to describe such fictional post-war outcomes. The novels present stories of how ordinary citizens cope with the daily humiliations of fascist military occupation and with the resentments of being a people under colonial domination. The stories deal with the politics, culture, and personalities who allowed the Fascist victories against democracy, and with the psychology of quotidian life in totalitarian societies. Dick SS-GB (1978), by Len Deighton and Fatherland (1992), by Robert Harris. Later novels of alternative history include: The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. The first such work was Swastika Night (1937), by Katherine Burdekin, a British novel published before Nazi Germany launched the Second World War in 1939. Works of alternative history (fiction) and of counterfactual history (non-fiction), including stories, novels, and plays, often explore speculative public and private life in lands conquered by the coalition, whose principal powers were Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy.
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