The megalomaniacal architectural dreams of Adolf Hitler will often come true following the victory, with Berlin and other cities being considerably reshaped, and the gigantic Volkshalle being built. Stories functioning on an outright and total Nazi victory will often include some kind of All-American resistance, as well as universal death camps (ones that everyone actually knows about) as a conflict to resist against, and a grunge-punk universe aided by not progressing from 1930s tech (unless Stupid Jetpack Hitler is in effect). ![]() ![]() Given that World War II stories are often used to deliver parables or comment about the present-day world, that the war forms a large part of the national mythos of the US, UK, and countries of the former Soviet Union * It was/is even called the Great Patriotic War in some of them!, and that these states' own ethno-racial and colonialist attitudes and politics at that time and other less-than-heroic aspects tend to be downplayed in narratives of the war, such portayals might be seen as politically sensitive or just plain jarring for audiences (though rare examples do exist). Stories of a Nazi defensive victory may also be rare because they bring up questions about how the still-existing powers that made up the Allies would have related to the Nazi state and - given the scale of Nazi atrocities, combined with the pragmatic and amoral nature of much of international diplomacy - may implicitly paint these states in a far less heroic or moral light. However, speculative fiction isn't just interested with "They won but then got defeated in the Cold War" - it also wants the dystopia. And, with how peaceful Germany is now, a Nazi victory might have just meant a longer period of shit before kind of leveling out again. Perhaps the Americans would have nuked the world to death, or maybe the British were a bit slow on the planes and codebreaking. Of course, there's different degrees to how conclusive the Nazi victory would have been, and probably a few more wars. In fact, this is such a universal defining truth that lots of people want to either reinforce the goodness of Nazis losing or scare themselves with stories of what might have happened, anyway. ![]() And we're grateful because of the retroactive recognition of how different the world would be now if the Nazis had won. There is one truth out there that all good people of the world are very grateful for: Nazi Germany lost World War II.
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