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First, there is an alternate history within the alternate history with a series of films showing an allied victory in the war, different from the book, which uses a fictional novel, titled The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. However, the plot diverges from the book in a number of areas. While the Nazis travel on rocket ships, the Japanese traverse the globe on ocean liners. Germany possesses nuclear weapons, and an aviation industry that produces rocket planes that travel from Stockholm to San Francisco in 45 minutes. Within this bi-polar world order, Germany is the more advanced state. The series takes place in 1962, and the global showdown emerging is not the United States and the Soviet Union, but a bi-polar international environment dominated by Japan and Germany who are locked in their own Cold War. Germany and Japan win the war and divide the United States with the Eastern side of the Rockies under Nazi rule, and the West Coast under Japanese rule. Subsequently the United States failed to prepare for a conflict with Japan and Germany, nor did the United States support the Soviet Union or Great Britain. In both the book and series, President Roosevelt never survived his assassination attempt in 1933. The premise of The Man in the High Castle is based upon the book with the same title by Phillip K. Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle takes an alternate approach. In examining another’s ethics and morals, the question often comes up that given the possibilities of time travel, would you be capable of killing Hitler in his youth or prior to his rise to power? The simple answer is yes, while others try a more nuanced approach of convincing Hitler of his promise as an artist, to the inane of stealing his wallet to make his life just a touch more uncomfortable.
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