Fatherland : Alternate History with a Point

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Published on October 11, 2024 1:45:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uxKZt8S8s

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The 1992 novel by Robert Harris is a great example of the otherwise generally mediocre “Germany won WWII” alternate history premise. By removing the regime from its current almost mythologized status as a unique and singular evil, instead portraying it as merely a repressive state in a Cold War, Fatherland illustrates an uncomfortable truth about realpolitik and atrocities.

CORRECTION: Somehow I put up a picture of Bormann when I was talking about Buhler.

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00:00 Intro
00:55 The Case
02:20 Out of Myth, into the Mundane
06:13 Detente and Bureaucracy
09:11 HBO’s Adaptation
10:01 Ignoring Inconvenient Truths