‘The Man in the High Castle’ Depicts America Under the Nazis

War is Boring ^ | 1/22/15 | Gault

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An excellent adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s best novel

After the highway patrolman finishes helping Joe Blake fix a flat tire, the cop offers him a sandwich. Blake is nervous. He’s stuck in the Midwest at the mercy of a police officer … and he’s carrying illegal cargo.

Blake wants to leave, but he accepts the sandwich. Better not to cause a stir.

As Blake takes the meal, he notices a tattoo on the officer’s forearm—a knife through a flower. Blake asks what it means. “Oh?” the cop says. “A soldier so fierce he’d kill a rose.”

“That was you?” Blake asks.

“A long time ago,” he answers. “We lost the war didn’t we? Now I can’t even remember what we were fighting for.”

Ash falls from the sky, peppering the two men. “What is that?” Blake asks.

“Oh, it’s the hospital.”

“Hospital?”

“Yeah,” the cop says. “On Tuesdays they burn cripples … the terminally ill. Drag on the state.”

This is the 1960s in an alternate timeline—another universe where the Axis powers won World War II. This is Amazon’s newest show The Man in the High Castle.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

If the Axis won WW II—we would be driving cars made in Germany or Japan. Civil Rights would not exist—No problems with the middle east. Israel would still be a dream. Von Braun would have put Germans on the Moon. In short it would be much like today—with fewer people. USSR would be gone, Germany and Japan would rule the Empires of the past. It might be a better world in some ways—and worse in others. I think Germany would have dropped National Socialism after Hitlers death.