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== Otto Basil == | == Otto Basil == |
Wenn das der Führer wüsste (Hitler wins WW2 and rules over the whole world, except for East Asia) | Wenn das der Führer wüsste! (Hitler wins WW2 and rules over the whole world, except for Japan's East Asian sphere) |
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== Christian von Ditfurth == | == Christian von Ditfurth == |
| (who also happens to be the author of "German History for Dummies" - he calls his AH "Geschichtsverbiegungen" (bent [Hi]Stories) or "Lügengeschichten" ([Hi]Stories with/made of lies), BTW) |
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Die Mauer steht am Rhein: Deutschland nach dem Sieg des Sozialismus (Gorbachev is toppled in 1988, the FRG forced to join the GDR. And many westerners incl. politicians become willing collaborators.)\\ | Die Mauer steht am Rhein: Deutschland nach dem Sieg des Sozialismus (Gorbachev is toppled in 1988, the FRG forced to join the GDR. And many westerners incl. politicians become willing collaborators.)\\ |
Der 21. Juli (Stauffenberg manages to kill Hitler - and the conspirators manage to take power by allying with Himmler and Göring, of all people. Then, Germany starts to work on nuclear weapons...)\\ | Der 21. Juli (Stauffenberg manages to kill Hitler - and the conspirators manage to take power by allying with Himmler and Göring, of all people. Then, Germany starts to work on nuclear weapons...)\\ |
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== Wolfgang Jeschke == | == Wolfgang Jeschke == |
Das Cusanus Spiel [sic] / [[alternate_history:The Cusanus Game]] (Cusanus founds the Accademia Romana - later called "Sapienza" with support by pope Pius II, which is later lead by scientists like da Vinci, Giordano Bruno, and Kepler. Science and technology develop much faster than IOTL, so does the European unification - but some things go majorly wrong, and the biologist Domenica Ligrina has to join a secret time travelling project...) | Das Cusanus Spiel [sic] / [[alternate_history:The Cusanus Game]] (Cusanus founds the Accademia Romana - later called "Sapienza" - with support by pope Pius II, which is later lead by scientists like da Vinci, Giordano Bruno, and Kepler. Science and technology develop much faster than IOTL, so does the European unification - but some things go majorly wrong, and the biologist Domenica Ligrina has to join a secret time travelling project...) |
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== Prof. Alexander Demandt == | == Prof. Alexander Demandt == |
Die Stimmen der Nacht (The US deploy nukes earlier, i.e. on Berlin while the war is going on. The Morgenthau plan is implemented, 20 million Germans emigrate to South America... eventually taking over the whole continent.) | Die Stimmen der Nacht (The US deploy nukes earlier, i.e. on Berlin while the war is going on. The Morgenthau plan is implemented, 20 million Germans emigrate to South America... eventually taking over the whole continent.) |
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== Hannes Stein | == Hannes Stein == |
Der Komet (After the first bomb was thrown on Franz Ferdinand of A-H in Sarajevo, he decides "I'm not a fool, I'll go home again", World War I is cancelled. Monarchs reign everywhere in Europe, even the Ottoman Empire hasn't fallen. The US stay a backward country full of cowboys, gold diggers, and rednecks - Vienna is the center of the world, full of Jews, psychoanalysts, and irony. Here, in the 21st century, protagonist Alexei starts a liaison with a society lady - Barbara Gottlieb, despite the name Sephardic - whose husband is very far away, but sending uncalming news. Part of the novel are also set on the Moon, of all places.) | Der Komet (After the first bomb was thrown on Franz Ferdinand of A-H in Sarajevo, he decides "I'm not a fool, I'll go home again", World War I is cancelled. Monarchs reign everywhere in Europe, even the Ottoman Empire hasn't fallen. The US stay a backward country full of cowboys, gold diggers, and rednecks - Vienna is the center of the world, full of Jews, psychoanalysts, and irony. Here, in the 21st century, protagonist Alexei starts a liaison with a society lady - Barbara Gottlieb, despite the name Sephardic - whose husband is very far away, but sending uncalming news. Part of the novel are also set on the Moon, of all places.) |
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* "Ein neunter Oktober" deals with the revolution in Eastern Germany 1989. Erich Mielke orders shooting the peaceful demonstrators. | * "Ein neunter Oktober" deals with the revolution in Eastern Germany 1989. Erich Mielke orders shooting the peaceful demonstrators. |
* "Der Adler ist gelandet" geht der Frage nach, what'd have happened, if Christopher Columbus hadn't sailed to America under the Spanish flag. A merchant from Lübeck meets Columbus... | * "Der Adler ist gelandet" researches the question what'd have happened if Christopher Columbus hadn't sailed to America under the Spanish flag. A merchant from Lübeck meets Columbus... |
* In "...auf dass er die Menschen erlöse" we meet Jesus and Pontius Pilate. There's a surprise witness for the defense. | * In "...auf dass er die Menschen erlöse" we meet Jesus and Pontius Pilate. There's a surprise witness for the defense. |
* "Kalifornia Dreaming" has a connection of Goebbels and Walt Disney: It's about a Disney theme park in the Greater German Reich. | * "Kalifornia Dreaming" has a connection of Goebbels and Walt Disney: It's about a Disney theme park in the Greater German Reich. |