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Index

21. Juli, Der, see Ditfurth, Christian v.

1945, see Gingrich, Newt and William Forstchen

‘1953’: A Version of Racine’s Andromaque, see Raine, Craig

Acheson, Dean 51

Adolf die Nazi-Sau, see Moers, Walter

Adorno, Theodor 335

Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, The 208

After Dachau, see Quinn, Daniel

Aldiss, Brian 219

   “Swastika!” 219–21, 292

Allhoff, Fred 97

   Lightning in the Night 97–9, 155

alternate history

   as a form of popular culture 15

   as a means of studying memory 12

   commercial success of 388–89

   definition of 4–5

   fantasy scenarios 11, 13

   function of 10, 13

   future of 395–97

   humor and 381–82

   new popularity of 5–10

   nightmare scenarios 11, 13

   normalization of Nazism and 22–5

   origins of 5

   pitfalls of 392–93

   points of divergence and 4, 11

   reception of 14, 25, 390–91

   theme of the Third Reich and 11–14

Amis, Kingsley 50

Amis, Martin 358

   Time’s Arrow 358, 363–66, 368, 370

An Englishman’s Castle, see Mackie, Philip

Anonymous

   The Man Who Killed Hitler 273

   The Occupation 49, 50

Armstrong, Anthony

   When the Bells Rang 40

Asgard Solution, The, see Marino, James

Astounding Science Fiction 310

“Ausflug,” see Pleschinski, Hans

Bank, Aaron 250

Basil, Otto 161

   Wenn das der Führer wüsste 161

Benigni, Roberto 19

   Life is Beautiful 19

Berkut, The, see Heywood, Joseph

Berlin Crisis 46

Bier, Jesse 344, 369

   “Father and Son” 344–46

Bin Laden, Osama 396

Bitburg controversy 351

Blair, Tony 90

Boulle, Pierre 231, 243, 244

   “His Last Battle” 231–33

Bradley, David 212

Brandt, Willy 312

Britain Invaded, see Gilbert, Adrian

British empire

   decline of 41, 54, 56, 85, 91

Broszat, Martin 21, 393

Brown, Douglas 37, 39, 40

   Loss of Eden 37–8, 40, 46

Brownlow, Kevin 54, 56, 164

   It Happened Here 55, 56–8, 67–8, 94, 397

Buchanan, Pat 149

   A Republic, Not an Empire 149–51, 157–58

Budspy, see Dvorkin, David

Bunting, Madeleine 82

   The Model Occupation 82–3, 88, 90

Burdekin, Katharine 35

   Swastika Night 35–7, 65, 80

Bush, George W. 156

Butler, Ewan 57, 58

   Without Apology 58–61

Caine, Michael 52, 56

“California Reich” 303–05

Carroll, Tod 127

Cavani, Liliana 19

   Night Porter, The 19

Channel Islands 47, 82–3

Charmley, John 71, 83–6, 88–9, 90, 93, 94

   Churchill: The End of Glory 83–6, 88–9

Charnay, David 264

   Operation Lucifer 264–65

Children’s War, The, see Stroyar, J. N.

Choquette, Michel 233

   “Stranger in Paradise” 233–34, 243

Churchill, Winston 35, 86

Churchill: The End of Glory, see Charmley, John

“City on the Edge of Forever, The,” 108–10, 115

Clark, Alan 88–9, 93, 94

Clark, Marcia 273

Clarke, Comer 46, 73

   England under Hitler 46–7

Clash of Eagles, see Rutman, Leo

“Class With Dr. Chang, A,” see Moore, Ward

Cold war

   end of 7, 24, 71, 80, 138–52, 243, 246, 263, 296

   in 1950s 23–4, 41, 100, 207–08, 210–11, 311

   in 1960s 217

   in 1970s 117–18

Constantine, Murray, see Burdekin, Katharine

Consul, Der, see Ditfurth, Christian v.

Conversation with the Beast 256–59, 267

Cooper, A. Edward 151

   The Triumph of the Third Reich 151–52, 322

Cooper, Giles 52

   The Other Man 52–6, 68

Cornwell, Stephen 141

Courtois, Stéphane 371

Coward, Noël 42, 60

   Peace in Our Time 42–4, 48, 49, 50, 55, 57, 58, 93, 94

“Cradle of Darkness” 305–07, 327

“Crisis on Earth-X” 113–15

Cuban missile crisis 217

Day of Reckoning, The, see Radin, Max

decolonization 41, 55, 56–8

Deighton, Len 34, 64

   SS-GB 34, 62, 64–6, 69–70, 397

Delaplace, Barbara 296

   “Painted Bridges” 296–98

Demandt, Alexander 177, 281, 309, 312

   History That Never Happened 281

   “Wenn Hitler gewonnen hätte?” 177–81, 322

   “What If Hitler Had Died in 1938?” 281

“Demotion,” see Locke, Robert Donald

Der Führer privat, see Greser, Achim

Dershowitz, Alan 273

De toekomst van gisteren, see Mulisch, Harry

Dick, Philip K. 2, 9, 104

   The Man in the High Castle 3, 104–08, 115, 191

Die Stimmen der Nacht, see Ziegler, Thomas

Dirty Dozen: Next Mission, The 322

Ditfurth, Christian v. 307, 318

   Der 21. Juli 318–22, 329

   Der Consul 307–09

Divide, The, see Overgard, William

Dobson, Michael 316

Dvorkin, David 131, 133–34

   Budspy 131, 137, 322

Eichmann, Adolf 47

   trial of 24, 46, 190, 202, 346

Eine Kleinigkeit für uns Reinkarnauten, see Ziegler, Thomas

Elleander Morning, see Yulsman, Jerry

Ellison, Harlan 108

Elon, Amos 371

Empty Mirror, The 254–56, 266–67

England under Hitler, see Clarke, Comer

entertainment revolution 9–10

Erickson, Steve 247

   Tours of the Black Clock 247–50, 266, 322

European Economic Community (EEC) 41, 51

European integration 71, 81, 82, 87

European Union (EU) 91

euroskepticism 71

Fadiman, Edwin Jr. 221

   Who Will Watch the Watchers? 221–23, 243

False Witness, The, see Krakow, Robert M.

Fantastic Four, The 322

Farley, Ralph Milne 273

   “I Killed Hitler” 273

“Father and Son,” see Bier, Jesse

Fatherland, see Harris, Robert

Fatherland (HBO film) 143–44, 156–57

Ferguson, Niall 8, 10, 90, 91

   “Hitler’s England” 90

   “The Kaiser’s European Union” 91

   The Pity of War 91

Fest, Joachim 316

“finest hour” myth 35, 41–2, 94, 393–94

Finkelstein, Norman 371

Flesh Feast 212–13

Forester, C. S. 48, 207

   “If Hitler Had Invaded England” 48–9, 50

   The Nightmare 48, 207–08

   “The Wandering Gentile” 207–08, 211

Forstchen, William 144, 145–46

Fox on the Rhine, see Niles, Douglas and Michael Dobson

Franken, Al 136

Friedlander, Saul 342

Friedman, Michel 267

Fry, Stephen 298, 308, 372

   Making History 298–303, 305, 325, 326, 327, 328, 358, 367–68, 369, 370–71, 397

“Führer in the Dock, The,” see Spiller, Roger

future histories 5, 35, 96

Gans, Herbert 390

Geary, Rick 127

Germany

   reunification of 20, 24, 31, 81, 87, 176, 179, 246, 281, 286, 362

Gilbert, Adrian 72

   Britain Invaded 72–5, 87–8

Gingrich, Newt and William Forstchen 144, 145–46

   1945 144–46, 157, 322

Ginter, Brad 212

Giordano, Ralph 175

   Wenn Hitler den Krieg gewonnen hätte 175–76

Goebbels und Geduldig 268

Gold, H. L. 203–05

Goldhagen, Daniel 303

   Hitler’s Willing Executioners 303, 328

Goss, Gary 224

   Hitler’s Daughter 224–27, 243

Graeme, Bruce

   When the Bells Rang 40

Grand Canyon, see Sackville-West, Vita

Grayson, Richard 234, 243, 244

   “With Hitler in New York” 234–36

Great Britain

   postwar decline of empire and 41, 54, 56, 85, 91

Greser, Achim 19

   Der Führer privat 19, 268

Harris, Robert 1, 2, 77

   Fatherland 1, 2, 77–81, 87, 185–86, 396

Hawkin, Martin

   When Adolf Came 40

Heigl, Katherine 305

He Lives 212–13

Heissenbüttel, Helmut 166

   “Wenn Adolf Hitler den Krieg nicht gewonnen hätte” 166–70

Hershey, Barry 254

“He’s Alive!” 214–17

Heywood, Joseph 242

   The Berkut 242–43, 245

Hiroshima 193

“His Last Battle,” see Boulle, Pierre

Historians’ Debate, The 19–23, 351

History That Never Happened, see Demandt, Alexander

Hitler, Adolf

   as symbol of ultimate evil 396

   laughing at 268

   survival of 19–3, 199–202

   world without 23

“Hitler at Nuremberg,” see Malzberg, Barry

Hitler: Dead or Alive 273

Hitler Wave 19, 112, 135, 202, 217–18

Hitler’s Angel, see Rusch, Kris

Hitler’s Daughter, see Goss, Gary

“Hitler’s England,” see Ferguson, Niall and Andrew Roberts

“Hitler’s Impact on History,” see Turner, Henry

Hitler’s Willing Executioners, see Goldhagen, Daniel

Hogan’s Heroes 268

Holocaust 23

   alternate scenarios relating to 333–36

   national memorial in Berlin 357

Hughes, Howard 211

Hughes, Robert 269

Hussein, Saddam 397

I, James Blunt, see Morton, H. V.

“I Killed Hitler,” see Farley, Ralph Milne

If Britain Had Fallen 61

“If Hitler Had Invaded England,” see Forester, C. S.

“If Hitler Had Won World War II,” see Shirer, William

If We Should Fail, see White, Marion

“If World War II Had Been Fought like the War in Vietnam,” O’Rourke, P. J.

information revolution 8

In the Presence of Mine Enemies, see Turtledove, Harry

Invasion, see Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

Invasion: 1940 94

Iron Dream, The, see Spinrad, Norman

Islamic terrorism 395–96

isolationism 97, 118–25

Israel 335

It Happened Here, see Brownlow, Kevin and Andrew Mollo

Jäckel, Eberhard 311

   “Wenn der Anschlag gelungen wäre” 311–13

Jennings, Humphrey 40

   The Silent Village 40

Jewish history 335

Justice League of America, The 113

“Kaiser’s European Union, The,” see Ferguson, Niall

Kane, Joseph 212

Kiefer, Anselm 19

Knight’s Cross, see Nathanson, E. M.

Kohl, Helmut 19–23, 278, 351

Kornbluth, Cyril M. 100, 116

   “Two Dooms” 100–02, 140, 208–10

Krakow, Robert M. 253

   The False Witness: The Trial of Adolf Hitler 253–54

Krier, Leon 19

Kühnen, Michael 185

Lake, Veronica 213

Last Reich, The, see Rhodes, Arthur

Last Supper, The 273

Life is Beautiful, see Benigni, Roberto

Lightning in the Night, see Allhoff, Fred

Linaweaver, Brad 95, 124, 125

   Moon of Ice 95, 122, 138

Locke, Robert Donald 310, 314

   “Demotion” 310–11

Longmate, Norman 61

Loss of Eden, see Brown, Douglas and Christopher Serpell

Louvish, Simon 271, 293, 327

   The Resurrections 271, 293–96, 304, 327

Lubos, Arno 170

   Schwiebus 170–75

Lukacs, John 120

   “What If Hitler Had Won the Second World War?” 120–22

Mackie, Philip 62

   An Englishman’s Castle 62–4, 68–9

Major, John 71

Making History, see Fry, Stephen

Malzberg, Barry 263

   “Hitler at Nuremberg” 263–64

Man He Found, The 211

Man in the High Castle, The, see Dick, Philip K.

“Man Who Could be Hitler, The” 205–07

Man Who Killed Hitler, The 273

Marino, James 240

   The Asgard Solution 240–42, 245

“Master Plan of Dr. Fu Manchu, The” 208–10

Mauthausen 357

McKale, Donald 268

memory

   moralism and 16

   normalization of 15–18

   postwar evolution of

      era of moralism 23–4

      era of normalization 23–4

   types of 16–17

      communicative memory 17, 18

      counter-memory 16

      cultural memory 17

      official memory 16

Menaul, Christopher 143

Menzies, William Cameron 211

Model Occupation, The, see Bunting, Madeleine

Moers, Walter 259

   Adolf die Nazi-Sau 259–63, 267

Mollo, Andrew 54, 56

   It Happened Here 55, 56–8, 67–8

Moon of Ice, see Linaweaver, Brad

Moore, Ward 125

   “A Class With Dr. Chang” 125–26

Morbus Kitahara, see Ransmayr, Christoph

Morgenthau Plan, the 346–58

Morton, H. V. 38, 39

   I, James Blunt 38, 39, 40, 46

Mueller-Stahl, Armin 256

Mulisch, Harry 190

   De toekomst van gisteren 190–93, 292, 322

Muller, Robert 213

Nasser, Gamal Abdel 207

Nathanson, E. M. and Aaron Bank, 250

   Knight’s Cross 250–52, 266

National Lampoon 127, 233

Nazism

   aestheticization of 18–19, 25, 386–87

   historicization of 20–21, 393

   moralistic memory of 18, 25

   normalization of 18–22

   organic normalization of 21–2, 24, 385–86

   relativization of 19–20, 25, 386

   representation of 12

   scholarly studies of 12, 15

   universalization of 20–21, 25, 386

neo-Nazism 45, 240, 351

“Night Conspirators, The” 213–17

Night Porter, The, see Cavani, Liliana

Nightmare, The, see Forester, C. S.

Niles, Douglas and Michael Dobson 316

   Fox on the Rhine 316–18

“N. N., Der großgermanische Seekrieg gegen Japan und die USA im Jahre 1949: The Near Miss,” see Salewski, Michael

No Clear and Present Danger, see Russett, Bruce M.

Norden, Eric 29, 110

   Ultimate Solution, The 29, 110–13, 115

normalization of memory 15–18

   alternate history and 22–5

   national differences in the 394–95

   problematic aspects of the 394

   types of 17–18

      aestheticization 17

      organic normalization 17

      relativization 17

      universalization 17

   virtues of 393–94

Novick, Peter 371

Occupation, The, see Anonymous

“On the Death of Hitler’s Assassin,” see Yarden, Ivor H.

Operation Lucifer, see Charnay, David

Operation Sea Lion 48

Orloff, Arthur 209

O’Rourke, P. J. 127

   “If World War II Had Been Fought like the War in Vietnam,” 127

Orwell, George 40

Ostpolitik 312

Other Man, The, see Cooper, Giles

Overgard, William 128, 130–31

   The Divide 128–31

“Painted Bridges,” see Delaplace, Barbara

Pasha, Kamran 306

Peace in Our Time, see Coward, Noël

People’s Almanac, The 120

Philadelphia Experiment II, The 141–42, 157

Pity of War, The, see Ferguson, Niall

Pleschinski, Hans 278, 309, 312

   “Ausflug” 278–81

Plot against America, The, see Roth, Philip

“Plot to Save Hitler, The,” see Thompson, W. R.

Ponting, Clive 71

Pope Pius XII 336

popular culture 8–9, 14–15, 390

Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., The, see Steiner, George

posthistory 6

postmodernism 7

Priest, Christopher 91

   The Separation 91–3

“Prime Minister Halifax,” see Roberts, Andrew

Producers, The 19

Quinn, Daniel 336, 372

   After Dachau 336–43, 369, 396

Radin, Max 202

   The Day of Reckoning 202

Raine, Craig 75

   ‘1953’: A Version of Racine’s Andromaque 75–7, 87, 396

Ranke, Leopold von 393

Ransmayr, Christoph 346, 372

   Morbus Kitahara 346, 352–58, 363, 368, 369–70

Republic, Not an Empire, A, see Buchanan, Pat

“Requiem für einen Stümper,” see Wedemeyer-Schwiersch, Sabine

Resurrections, The, see Louvish, Simon

Rhodes, Arthur 146

   The Last Reich 146

Ribenfeld, Pol 316

Ridley, Nicholas 71

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The, see Shirer, William

Robban, Randolph 187

   Si l’Allemagne avait vaincu 187, 188–90

Roberts, Andrew 10, 90, 91

   “Hitler’s England” 90

   “Prime Minister Halifax” 90–91

Roberts, Keith 61

   “Weihnachtsabend” 61

Roth, Philip 152

   The Plot against America 152–56

Rusch, Kris 273

   Hitler’s Angel 273

Russett, Bruce M. 118

   No Clear and Present Danger 118, 138

Rutman, Leo 140

   Clash of Eagles 140–41

Sackville-West, Vita 38, 39

   Grand Canyon 38–9, 40, 396

Salewski, Michael 182

   “N. N., Der großgermanische Seekrieg gegen Japan und die USA im Jahre 1949: The Near Miss” 182–84

Sarban, see Wall, John W.

Saturday Night Live 19, 135

Schindler’s List 366

Schwiebus, see Lubos, Arno

secret histories 5, 202

Separation, The, see Priest, Christopher

September 11, 2001 155–56, 395

Serling, Rod 214

Serpell, Christopher 37, 39, 40

   Loss of Eden 37–8, 40, 46

Shirer, William 102

   “If Hitler Had Won World War II” 103–04, 116, 185–86

   The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 102, 116

Si l’Allemagne avait vaincu, see Robban, Randolph

Silent Village, The, see Jennings, Humphrey

Sliders 303

Sound of His Horn, The, see Wall, John W.

Speer, Albert 112, 287

Spiller, Roger 265

   “The Führer in the Dock” 265

Spinrad, Norman 137, 287

   The Iron Dream 287–93, 326, 327–28

SS-GB, see Deighton, Len

Stannard, David 371

Star Trek 108–10

Stauffenberg, Claus Graf Schenck von 273, 310

Steiner, George 227

   The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H. 227–31, 244–45, 250, 258

Strange Adventures 203

“Strange Fate of Adolph Hitler, The” 203–05

“Stranger in Paradise,” see Choquette, Michel

Stroyar, J. N. 146

   The Children’s War 146–47

Suez Crisis 41, 51

“Swastika!” see Aldiss, Brian

Swastika Night, see Burdekin, Katharine

T-Man: World Wide Trouble-Shooter 205

Thatcher, Margaret 70, 71, 85

They Saved Hitler’s Brain 212–13

Third Reich, see Nazism

Thomas, D. M. 19

   White Hotel, The, 19

Thomas, Hugh 49

Thompson, W. R. 322

   “The Plot to Save Hitler” 322

Time’s Arrow, see Amis, Martin

Title, Stacy 273

Tours of the Black Clock, see Erickson, Steve

Trial of Adolf Hitler, The, see van Rjndt, Philippe

Trial of Adolf Hitler, The, see Young, Michael

Triumph of the Third Reich, The, see Cooper, A. Edward

Turner, Henry 281, 308, 327

   “Hitler’s Impact on History” 281–83

Turtledove, Harry 147, 313

   In the Presence of Mine Enemies 147–49, 158–59

   “Ready for the Fatherland” 313–15

Twilight Zone 214, 305

“Two Dooms,” see Kornbluth, Cyril M.

Ultimate Solution, The, see Eric Norden

Ustasha 314–14

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem 97

   Invasion 97–9, 155

van Rjndt, Philippe 199, 236

   The Trial of Adolf Hitler 199, 236–40, 245, 252

Vietnam War 24, 61, 110, 117, 119, 126, 127–28, 193, 218, 292

Wall, John W. 44

   The Sound of His Horn 44–5, 50, 79, 112

Walser, Martin 20, 357, 371

“Wandering Gentile, The,” see Forester, C. S.

Wedemeyer-Schwiersch, Sabine 283, 309

   “Requiem für einen Stümper” 283–85

“Weihnachtsabend,” see Roberts, Keith

Wein, Len 113, 115

“Wenn Adolf Hitler den Krieg nicht gewonnen hätte,” see Heissenbüttel, Helmut

Wenn das der Führer wüsste, see Basil, Otto

“Wenn der Anschlag gelungen wäre,” see Jäckel, Eberhard

Wenn Hitler den Krieg gewonnen hätte, see Giordano, Ralph

“Wenn Hitler gewonnen hätte?” see Demandt, Alexander

Wessel, Kai 268

“What If Hitler Had Died in 1938?” see Demandt, Alexander

“What If Hitler Had Won the Second World War?” see Lukacs, John

“What If: Überman” 135–37, 138

Wheeler-Bennett, John 325

When Adolf Came, see Hawkin, Martin

When the Bells Rang, see Armstrong, Anthony and Bruce Graeme

Whip Hand, The 211

White, Hayden 166

White, Marion 99

   If We Should Fail 99

White Hotel, The, see Thomas, D. M.

Wilson, Pete 304

Who Will Watch the Watchers?, see Edwin Fadiman Jr.

“With Hitler in New York,” see Grayson, Richard

Without Apology, see Butler, Ewan

World War II

   American intervention in 96–7, 118

   Nazis win 22, 29–33

      as nightmare scenario 30–31

      American narratives 30, 31

      British narratives 30, 31, 34–5

      German narratives 30–31

Yarden, Ivor H. 315

   “On the Death of Hitler’s Assassin” 315–16

Young, Michael 202

   The Trial of Adolf Hitler 202

Yulsman, Jerry 274

   Elleander Morning 274–78, 327, 329, 365

Ziegler, Thomas 333, 372

   Die Stimmen der Nacht 346–52, 368, 370

   Eine Kleinigkeit für uns Reinkarnauten 333, 358–63, 368

Zitelmann, Rainer 20


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