
ĭepictions of the Axis powers 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 would have dealt with fascist military occupation and with the resentments of being under colonial domination. The stories deal with the politics, culture, and personalities who would have allowed the fascist victories against democracy and with the psychology of daily 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 work to inspire the genre 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) include stories, novels, performances, and mixed media that often explore speculative public and private life in lands conquered by the coalition, whose principal powers were Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy. The occupation of major Allied cities by Axis forces is commonly depicted in works about a hypothetical Axis victory.Ī hypothetical military victory of the Axis powers over the Allies of World War II (1939–1945) is a common topic in speculative literature.

Alternate history scenario A film set in Vancouver, Canada used for the 2015 alternate history television series The Man in the High Castle.
