'' 26 January 1941 claims that "National Socialism is the guarantor of victory".
Themes Helen White stated that a hypothetical world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War is a harsher and grimmer place to live in than the real world, where Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers lost the War in 1945. Speculative literature about hypothetical military victories by the Axis Powers have generally been English-language literary work from the British Commonwealth and the United States as such protagonists tend to experience events from the perspective of military defeat and foreign military occupation. The literary tone of alternative history fiction presents the military victory of the Axis Powers as a melancholy background against which the reader sees the unfolding of political plots in a socially strained atmosphere of foreign occupation and socio-economic domination. The social story of
SS-GB (1978) by
Len Deighton concludes with a US commando raid into Nazi-occupied Great Britain to rescue British nuclear scientists, while the British Resistance remains hopeful of eventual military liberation by the United States. In
Clash of Eagles (1990), by
Leo Rutman, the people of New York City rebel against the Nazi occupation of the US. Some depictions focus on Nazism's contradictions, suggesting that even with military triumph, the system would eventually start to collapse under its own weight. In
Fatherland (1992), by
Robert Harris, the
Greater German Reich faces economic crisis, forcing Hitler to pursue rapprochement with the US; at the story's conclusion, the protagonists thwart this effort by exposing the
Holocaust to the American people.
Harry Turtledove's
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (2003) presents the Nazi world two generations after their victory in WWII, in a time and place that allowed political liberalization and democratization. The
Hearts of Iron IV mod
The New Order: Last Days of Europe shows the Reich declining thanks to economic stagnation and hostile relations with its former allies. Another example can be found in
Wolfenstein: Youngblood plot, set in an alternative 1980s; high-ranking SS generals are seeking to establish a
Fourth Reich to replace the unstable and corrupt Reich after it lost most of its power due to the liberation of America and the demise of Nazi leaders such as the fictional Deathshead and
Frau Engel, as well as
Hitler himself, in the 1960s.
Early depictions The novel
Swastika Night (1937) presents the post-war world born from the victory of the Axis Powers: a dictatorship characterized by much "violence and mindlessness" which are justified by "irrationality and superstition". On 19 February 1942, the Canadian government staged a simulated Nazi German invasion and occupation of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and surrounding areas known as
If Day (French: Si un jour, lit. 'If one day'). It was organized as a war bond promotion by the Greater Winnipeg Victory Loan organization. The event was the largest military exercise in Winnipeg to that point. Organizers believed that the fear induced by the event would help increase fundraising objectives. Activities included a staged firefight between Canadian troops and volunteers dressed as German soldiers, the internment of prominent politicians, the imposition of Nazi rule, a fly-over, and a parade. The event was a success and over $3 million was collected in Winnipeg on that day. The novel
We, Adolf I (1945) presents a Nazi victory in the
Battle of Stalingrad which allowed Hitler to crown himself emperor of the world. In Berlin, the Nazis build an imperial palace featuring architectural elements of the
Eiffel Tower and the
Statue of Liberty. In the course of the story, the despot Hitler enters a dynastic marriage with the Japanese Imperial princess in an effort to produce a Fascist heir to rule the world after Hitler. The stage play
Peace in Our Time (1947) by
Noël Coward explores the nature of fascist rule in London and examines the deleterious effects of military occupation upon the mental health of the common man and the common woman. As a playwright, Coward was included in the Gestapo's
Black Book of enemies-of-the-state to be arrested upon completion of
Operation Sea Lion, the Nazi conquest of Great Britain. •
Philadelphia Experiment II (1993) •
Fatherland (1994), based on the 1992 novel •
Jackboots on Whitehall (2010) •
Resistance (2011)
Television television series
The Man in the High Castle; the occupation of major Allied cities by Axis powers is commonly depicted in works about a hypothetical Axis victory. •
The Other Man (1964) •
Star Trek: The Original Series: "
The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967) •
Doctor Who: "
Inferno" (1970) • ''
An Englishman's Castle'' (1978) •
Darkroom: "Stay Tuned, We'll Be Right Back" (1981) •
Justice League: "The Savage Time" (2002) •
Star Trek: Enterprise: "
Zero Hour" / "
Storm Front" (2004) •
Misfits: Season 3, Episode 4 (2011) •
The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019), an
Amazon Studios series based on the
1962 novel •
Danger 5: "Welcome to Hitlerland" (2015) •
Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.: "Days of Future Smash, Part 4 - The Hydra Years" (2015) •
SS-GB (2017), a
BBC miniseries based on the
1978 novel •
Crisis on Earth-X (2017), a four-part
Arrowverse crossover event between
Supergirl,
Arrow,
The Flash, and
Legends of Tomorrow •
Peacemaker: "
Ignorance Is Chris" / "
Like a Keith in the Night" (2025)
Comics • "Blitzkrieg 1972", issue 155 of
The Incredible Hulk (September 1972) depicts an alternate timeline where Nazis led by
Captain Axis are attempting to invade
New York City and battle an outnumbered U.S. Army assisted by the
Hulk. • The 1988
manga Kerberos Panzer Cop and related media in
Mamoru Oshii's
Kerberos saga depict an alternate universe where Nazi Germany develops "Protect Gear"
powered exoskeletons early into the war, defeating the Allies and managing to occupy the Empire of Japan (part of the Allies in the saga's timeline). However, the
20 July plot succeeds, and the regime succeeding Hitler purges Nazism from the German Reich and restores the
Weimar Republic, though authoritarianism is suggested to remain the dominant ideology. • In the 2003–2004
Captain America story arc
Cap Lives (
Captain America Vol. 4, issues 17–20), Captain America awakens from suspended animation in 1964 to find that, due to a temporal anomaly, Nazi Germany has won World War II and conquered much of the world, including the United States. After dropping a nuclear bomb on the U.S., Nazi Germany took control of North America, renaming New York City as "New Berlin" and declaring it the capital of Nazi America. Alongside American resistance fighters, Captain America fights against the New Reich and succeeds in returning to the timeline in which he is originally meant to be. • In DC Comics,
Earth-X is an alternative Earth in which the Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the U.S. and won World War II. • In the
A-Next comic series by
Marvel Comics, an alternate reality designated as Earth-9907 is depicted, in which the
Red Skull survived and assumed leadership of the failing Third Reich, leading it into total world domination. • The 2003 graphic novel
The Life Eaters is an adaptation and expansion of
Thor Meets Captain America.
Video games •
Rocket Ranger (as a background story/alternate reality) by
Cinemaware (1988) •
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty by
Spark Unlimited (2008) •
Battlestations: Pacific by
Eidos Interactive (2009) •
Wolfenstein: The New Order by
MachineGames (2014) •
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (2015) •
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017) •
Wolfenstein: Youngblood (2019) •
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot (2019) •
We Happy Few (2018), a survival game set in an alternate mid-1960s England after the successful occupation of the country by Nazi Germany. • Among the many alternate history timelines featured in the
GURPS role-playing game Infinite Worlds is the highly dangerous timeline known as
Reich-5, the worst of several Nazi-victorious alternate histories. • In the
grand strategy wargame Hearts of Iron IV by
Paradox Interactive, many conversion mods set in a world with an Axis victory have been created. •
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (abbreviated as
TNO), a mod for
Hearts of Iron IV taking place after the Axis Powers won World War II where an alternate three-way Cold War is fought between Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the United States by 1962. The mod has received praise for its rich storytelling and its dark and gloomy atmosphere. •
Thousand Week Reich, presents a German victory in World War II. In its timeline, the Germans capture the
British Expeditionary Force at
Dunkirk coupled with a collapse in public morale after the fall of France and the seemingly unending aerial war over the
Battle of Britain, causes the British to sign an armistice with Germany in early 1941. Germany then is able to conquer the western portion of the Soviet Union following a long conflict. The Allies (at peace with Germany) are able to win against Japan in the Pacific. The mod begins with a Cold War between the United States, Germany and India in 1952. == Hypothetical German victory in World War I ==