Fatherland
(HARRIS, ROBERT)
ABSTRACT ? HARRIS, ROBERT ? FATHERLAND 1992 Hutchinson Press There are several novels about what the World might be like now had Hitler won World War Three. Philip K Dick?s the man In The High Castle, and Len Deighton?s SS GB is just two. The best alternative history on a Nazi victory however is Fatherland. The book is set in Berlin around the repartitions for Adolph Hitler?s seventy-fifth Birthday in 1964. President Kennedy is heading to Berlin to support the celebrations. America has remained neutral, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour never took place. Britain has been reduced to neutrality. The Russian front collapsed. Everyone has been led to believe that the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals, etc, have been collectively transported to a new home in the Balkans. Berlin has been rebuilt according to the architectural plans of Albert Speer, which are used to illustrate the front pages of the book in most editions. The Germans are correlating a massive history of the war, trying to account for virtually every bullet fired. All changes for a policeman, Xavier March, who is investigating what appears to be an ordinary murder. He discovers that there is a large resistance movement intent on disrupting the Fuhrer?s birthday celebrations in order to tell the world a terrible truth somehow connected to the fate of the Jews that is not given in the propaganda statements. The policeman slowly uncovers the horrible truth, and there is a chilling moment when he discovers that the socks knitted for U-Boat crewmen (pairs of which he also wears) are actually made from hair cut from the heads and bodies of concentration camp victims). The policeman slowly slides deeper and deeper into disillusionment and into the resistance movement. He ultimately brings about his own death, at the hands of the Gestapo, in the grounds of the now demolished death camp at Auschwitz. But his sacrifice does allow others to take the proof of what really happened to millions of Jews out to the rest of the world.
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