WI: Fatherland scenerio in 1962...

It's hard with Fatehrland to write a plausible scenario because I'm not sure even Harris had given it massive consideration. His world was just a means to tell an interesting noir/spy story in a "modern" Nazi Germany that controls Europe, its alternate history but that is somewhat secondary to the book's narrative.

I had a go at making a coherent world map here but most of it is speculative. I also did an "After Fatherland" where the Reich collapsed (as hinted in the film).
 
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1. Good idea
2. It says that in 1944, or shortly before, all German subs had to return because they found out their code had been cracked (maybe after Russia surrenders?), and after that, Britain capitulates.

1944 seems a little late to be plausible, The Battle of the Atlantic had been effectively won by then?
By that point there was continuous air cover of the Atlantic, so much so that many U-boats were being sunk by standing patrols just out of harbour in the Bay of Biscay, and an adequate number of escorts with the right weapons and technology. Huff-Duff was finding them when they transmitted contact and after-action, hell even when they just listened for the weather, reports, even if they could not read the signals.
 
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