Since so much of the WWII-era books of TL-191 is extreme parallellism with the real WWII, I thought it would be interesting to have a thread about the bits of the series that avoid this parallellism. Here's what I've got:
1. There's no analog to Poland and the Baltic States in WWII, unless you consider Kentucky and Houston to be that. "Germany" and "The USSR" start out bordering each other.
2. There's really no "Western Front" for our Nazi-analog. It's interesting that Turtledove's alternate history ends up essentially giving us the Soviet perspective on WWII.
3. The Nazi-analog CSA focuses most of its genocidal atrocities on people inside its prewar borders, unlike in OTL, where most of Nazi Germany's victims were from Poland and the USSR. There's also little reference to anything like Generalplan Ost - the CSA doesn't seem to treat civillians in occupied US territories all that badly, I don't even remember a reference to them persecuting African-Americans in the occupied USA.
4. There's no analog to the expulsion of Germans from border areas after the war - the US doesn't kick all the Confederate loyalists out of Kentucky or northern Virginia. There is talk of sending the Mormons to Hawaii, but that's more like Stalin's wartime deporting of Volga Germans to Central Asia.
5. And of course, erzatz Hitler gets shot by a partisan instead of comitting suicide in his bunker.
Anything important that I've missed?
1. There's no analog to Poland and the Baltic States in WWII, unless you consider Kentucky and Houston to be that. "Germany" and "The USSR" start out bordering each other.
2. There's really no "Western Front" for our Nazi-analog. It's interesting that Turtledove's alternate history ends up essentially giving us the Soviet perspective on WWII.
3. The Nazi-analog CSA focuses most of its genocidal atrocities on people inside its prewar borders, unlike in OTL, where most of Nazi Germany's victims were from Poland and the USSR. There's also little reference to anything like Generalplan Ost - the CSA doesn't seem to treat civillians in occupied US territories all that badly, I don't even remember a reference to them persecuting African-Americans in the occupied USA.
4. There's no analog to the expulsion of Germans from border areas after the war - the US doesn't kick all the Confederate loyalists out of Kentucky or northern Virginia. There is talk of sending the Mormons to Hawaii, but that's more like Stalin's wartime deporting of Volga Germans to Central Asia.
5. And of course, erzatz Hitler gets shot by a partisan instead of comitting suicide in his bunker.
Anything important that I've missed?