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"The teacher pulled down a big map of the world that hung above the blackboard. The Germanic Empire, shown in the blood-red of the flag, stretched from England deep into Siberia and India. Paler red lands showed occupied but not formally annexed: France, the United States, Canada."
"In the empire's shadow were the little realms of the allied nations: Sweden's gold, Finalnd's pale blue, the greens of Hungary and Portugal, Romania's dark blue, purple for Spain and Bulgaria, and the yellow of the Italian Empire around the Mediterranean. Africa was mostly red, too, though Portugal, Spain, and Italy kept their colonies on the dark continent and the Aryan-dominated Union of South Africa was another ally, not a conquest."
"Only the Empire of Japan, with Southeast asia, China, the islands of the Pacific and Indian Ocean, and Australia all shown in yellow, came anywhere close to matching the Germanic Empire in size. The Japanese were strong enough to survivie for the time being, but not strong enough to make serious rivals for the Reich."
In the Presence of Mine Enemies is a 2003 Alternate history book, written by Harry Turtledove. Set in the year 2010 following an Axis victory in World War II, a family of Jews lives in hiding in a modern German reich. Most other "lesser races" have been killed off, with nearly the entire world dominated by facist dictatorships or under Axis occupation.
Those not entirely killed off are used as slave labor.
Since Germany and Japan developed nuclear weapons before the United States, the country was invaded. Washington DC and Philadelphia were destroyed, leading to the collapse of government and the occupation of the country.
What would you do in this kind of world?
*Brown areas are counties not mentioned in the book, but I'd imagine they're not much better.
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BrutalityInc [2019-01-03 00:59:42 +0000 UTC]
What would you do in this kind of world?
Pessimistically, I would be scared half to death and keep my head low.
Realistically, I would attempt anonymous, passive resistance like protecting persecuted peoples and protest whenever I could, like the young did in that novel.
Optimistically, join an armed resistance movement and hopefully not get slaughtered.
Of course, none of this may be needed as in a realistic world, even in the supreme unlikelihood of an Axis victory, their inherent systemic inefficiencies and disadvantages almost guarantees their economy, government and society would be inherently dysfunctional and doomed to collapse in the same way the Post-Stalinist Soviet Union would. The Thiusand Years Reich is almost destined to fizzle out within a century.
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123456789JD [2018-02-28 01:03:22 +0000 UTC]
Might as well fight back and send some Krauts to hell if I'm gonna be targeted for extermination anyways.
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pytko3 [2013-11-05 02:39:38 +0000 UTC]
Actually the United States also had Nuclear weapons and used them during the Third World War. They caused serious damage the Japan and Germany but they were beaten anyway.
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Loki-Ryuu [2013-11-05 00:42:43 +0000 UTC]
I can answer the brown Ireland area:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFJJmI…
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JakeRulez17 In reply to Loki-Ryuu [2013-11-05 03:22:39 +0000 UTC]
That's one possible explanation XD
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