Third Reich Victorious

[Tim]

BOOK: Third Reich Victorious
Edited by Peter  G. Tsouras
Year of publication: 2002

Alternate history has always fascinated me.  What if one historical event happened a different way?  What kind of world would we now be living in?  Well, one such event which has been covered is what if Germany had won World War II.

In this book, we see ten such scenarios examined.  All of them are very realistic, and are what COULD have happened, had one key decision or more had been different.  For example, had Hitler not been so anti-semantic, Albert Einstein would have had no reason to leave Germany.  Imagine if the Nazis had his genius on their side.   Things would have been very different indeed.

Aside from Hitler, many other historical people from that time appear throughout the book, such as Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and even Ian Fleming (yes, that Ian Fleming) shows up!  All of them are assigned different roles in each alternate history scenario.

So, for alternate history buffs, this book is a must have.

10/10

[Squad 51]

Oh joy, this is one thing I don't want to think about, to be honest. I'd have been raised very differently. *shudder*

[Tim]

Yeah, you would have. 

Many of the stories said that we'd end up with a version of the Cold War, except with Nazi Germany, instead of the Soviet Union.

[ladyfiaran22]

That book reminds me of the books I read for my paper on Nazi propaganda for my WW2 history class. Seriously ugly and depressing shit, and I also had to watch a documentary on Nazi cinema for the paper which had clips from The Eternal Jew and Jew Suss which made me feel dirty, such ugly and evil bullshit

[Tim]

Of course, had this scenario played out, Vanessa, your family might never have left Cuba.  Without the USSR to supply him with arms and such, Castro might never have taken power.