I must say I simply love this series. A lot of work went into creating all of it, and just looking at the result, any flaws can be forgiven. Yes, the maps have some imperfections like old capitals and borders unrealistically remaining. I'm told the various Japanese-language signs are poorly spelled. The set designers were a bit
too swastika-happy. It's a bit unrealistic to believe that Japan would not be looking into atomic weapons by this point. And yes, the series does have more padding than I'd have allowed if I were in charge of such things. (And I'd also add that in no actual case would the Germans name their empire the "Greater Nazi Reich". They never called themselves nazis! If they wanted to truly integrate other white peoples, and not call it "German", they'd have likely gone with "Greater Aryan Reich".)
But so what? It's engaging, provoking and
mainstream AH. For that alone, it must be commended. If the above are the major points of criticism, that says a lot about how great a show it really is.
Does it address more about the former US-ie the situation for black people ?
It never really talked about what happened to minorities in the former US.
Without actually spoiling anything, the topic is mentioned off-hand and indirectly in a S2 conversation. Reference is made to "pre-Reich exterminations" in America, and this is then specified to refer to the Indians. This at least implied that there were also
later exterminations. No reference to the reinstatement of slavery or anything like that is ever made, so I'm kind of guessing that the entire non-white population of Nazi-held North America has been exterminated.
Quick question to people who have seen all of season two: is Italy, or the general situation in Europe, mentioned at all?
Nothing is mentioned if I remember in the book Ireland for example was just classed as "other" they don't mention if it was taken over or not but the map above does show its been taken over I can't see Italy being conquered though unless the war went somehow worse in this timeline than it did in otl for the Italians.
Italy simply being pushed over and forced to be integrated into the Reich is actually rather realistic. After all, in this world, every enemy existing at that point has been defeated. The nazis are exploiting former Russia, Canada, the USA etc.
It's rather like Hitler to decide that everything within reach must be integrated into the New Order. If Italy gets uppity, it simply gets forced into compliance by far superior German military power. Italy needed the Germans to bail them out in Greece in OTL. How much trouble is a victorious Hitler, without any other foe to worry about, going to have when it comes to marching all over Italy? It simply gets integrated into the Greater Reich, which is multi-national "Aryan" instead of just German anyway, at that stage.