Honestly, I just tell myself that it must be the work of aliens lending a small number super advanced, invincible aircraft and ships to the Germans and Japanese which allowed them to completely decimate the bulk of Allied resistance. ASB tech is literally the only way an invasion of the Continental US is physically possible. Of course, the tech cannot be reverse engineered and were of use for only a limited time, which explains why military technology after the war is not that much different OTL.
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Honestly, I just tell myself that it must be the work of aliens lending a small number super advanced, invincible aircraft and ships to the Germans and Japanese which allowed them to completely decimate the bulk of Allied resistance. ASB tech is literally the only way an invasion of the Continental US is physically possible. Of course, the tech cannot be reverse engineered and were of use for only a limited time, which explains why military technology after the war is not that much different OTL.
It's been months, but I've just watched episode one, and
Thomas' sisters and their fellow kids being the first ones to stand up and sieg heil-ing really showcases how much the new generation believe in the tenets of National Socialism...
I'm planning on binge watching the season this weekend, so I won't open your spoiler yet. But thanks for the shout out.
I believe it was episode 1, when Tagomi was meeting with the Japanese Admiral on board the Yamato class battleship. What's interesting is that it doesn't show the Neutral zone between the PSA and the GNR.Anybody seen this map that was showed in season 3 of The Man in the High Castle.
Actually, it does, Its just a similar shade to the Japanese Territories.
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Also it seems that many countries who we know from OTL 2018 can be seen with their current borders they have.
Yes, you're right. I rewatched it once again. US capitulated in 1947 after a land invasion. Logical assumption is that the US forces were without leadership and that the various groups were self-organized in organizing resistance. Stalin was either caught by the Nazis and shot or removed in internal Soviet coup after war disaster.
It makes sense. Maybe he was in contact with Rockwell before the capitulation, or war itself? I mean, it sounds that US before war was something similar to Weimar Germany. To prove himself, he had to commit war crimes. It's evident that he is not an ideological Nazi, but a product of the situation.
True, but in hindsight, what were the Nazis and the Japanese going to do with it? The Urals are pretty much hell on Earth for anyone who wants to live in the cold, not to mention that Central Asia is full of rough and rugged territory that would've made a occupation of the area almost impossible for either side, particularly the Japanese with their shortcomings.
My headcanon is, that after the nuking of Washington, the shell-shoked survivors of the US-goverment official capitulated, but this capitulation wasn´t accepted by great parts of the country and the army. But people like Hoover and Smith stayed loyal to the "legal" goverment and fought side by side with the Nazis against "muniteers" and "rebels". This "police action" lasted till 1947, but it created a special bound between the Americans and the Germans. Therefore the american Nazis honestly celebrate VD America and the Germans have give them a status as allies.
I like this explanation. It fits with what we see in season 1, where the Americans who serve the régime clearly regard themselves as being among the winners, instead of being a colony.
I can see Americans who side with the Germans but are not committed to Nazi ideology per se rationalising their collaboration with arguments such as 'the war is lost, the rebels are just anarchists making things worse', 'the old system has failed. It lost us the war. We need a national revolution. The Germans do have some ideas worth applying,' and 'by proving ourselves to the Germans, we can retain influence in our country and prevent worse from happening'.
Of course, such arguments seem pretty hollow when they're participating in mass killings and helping the Nazis carry out their extermination of 'undesirables', but this is the kind of mantra people would tell themselves to justify their actions. Of course, some would just sign up because they're ambitious and see an opportunity.
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Until they discover vast mineral deposits, oil and gas - nothing. Slavic remnants are living there in harsh conditions.
That figures. It seems that Nazis are treating America in the way Brits treated India - crown jewel of their empire. Considering nazi racial policies, it would make sense that majority of Americans would rather accept new leadership approved by Germans, then risk becoming nuclear wasteland. Nazi America is better place to live compared to Eastern Europe, Africa or Japanese occupied China. ''Blood and soil'' generation is pretty much brainwashed as Hitlerjugend.
Jahr Null is the beginning of the Germanization of America. After extinction of the generation that actually lived in pre-war America, there is nothing to prevent Himmler or any another Nazi to declare American Reich as integral part of Germany. Smith realized that. He'll be a liability then.
Course Garner was not nearly as bad as some make him out to be supporting most of the tenants of the new deal and he was also very much anti-Japanese
I want painful death for Smith. I want Destiny to unleash her wrath upon Smith.
Bravo, Rufus Sewell! You played your character very truthfully. Youre an a excellent actor!
Bravo, Rufus Sewell! You played your character very truthfully. Youre an a excellent actor!