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As many of us know, the Third Reich never had the sort of industrial power or logistics to launch Sealion successfully, let alone a trans-Atlantic invasion, nullifying the plausibility of The Man in the High Castle, which isn't even its point.

But that's not what this thread is about.

In-universe, a (banned) novel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, propounds what the inhabitants of conquered America interpret OTL would be like. To quote the Wiki article:
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy postulates that President Roosevelt survives an assassination attempt but forgoes re-election in 1940, honoring George Washington's two-term limit. The next president, Rexford Tugwell, removes the Pacific fleet from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, saving it from Japanese attack, which ensures that the US enters the conflict a well-equipped naval power. The United Kingdom retains most of its military-industrial strength, contributing more to the Allied war effort, leading to Rommel's defeat in North Africa; the British advance through the Caucasus to fight alongside the Soviets to victory in the Battle of Stalingrad; Italy reneges on its membership in the Axis Powers and betrays them; British tanks and the Red Army jointly conquer Berlin; at the end of the war, the Nazi leaders—including Adolf Hitler—are tried for their war crimes; the Führer's last words are Deutsche, hier steh' ich ("Germans, here I stand"), in imitation of Martin Luther.

After the war, Winston Churchill remains the UK's leader and because of its military-industrial might, the British Empire does not collapse; the US establishes strong business relations with Chiang Kai-shek's right-wing regime in China, after vanquishing the Communist Mao Zedong. The British Empire becomes racist and more expansionist post-war, while the US outlaws Jim Crow, resolving its racism by the 1950s. Both changes provoke racial-cultural tensions between the US and the UK, leading them to a Cold War for global hegemony between the two vaguely liberal, democratic, capitalist societies. Although the end of the novel is never depicted in the text, one character claims the book ends with the British Empire eventually defeating the US, becoming the world superpower.

To what extent are these conclusions plausible, and how would we get around to such an outcome?
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