The aged Adolf Hitler is incapacitated by tertiary syphilis, Martin Bormann is the acting Chancellor of Germany, and the inner-circle Nazis- Joseph Goebbels, Reinhard Heydrich, Hermann Göring, Arthur Seyss-Inquart-vie to succeed Hitler as the Führer of the Greater Germanic Reich.

Moreover, Canada remains an independent country, despite having been one of the anti-Nazi Allies in the lost war. Nazi North America is composed of two countries: The South, which is ruled by a collaborationist pro-Nazi puppet regime and the North, which is the United States of America, ruled by a Nazi military governor. Japan extended the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere with the establishment of the Pacific States of America (PSA), with the politically neutral Rocky Mountain States acting as a buffer with the Nazi states to the east. Imperial Japan expanded its colonial empire with occupations of eastern Asia and Oceania, and invaded the West Coast of the United States, while Nazi Germany invaded the East Coast the surrender of the Allies ended World War II in 1947.īy the 1960s, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany are the world's superpowers, fighting a geopolitical cold war over the former United States. The Axis powers then jointly conquered Africa. The exterminations of the Jews, the Romani people, the Slavs, homosexuals, and all other peoples whom the Nazis considered subhuman ensued.

American inaction allows Nazi Germany to conquer and annex continental Europe and the Soviet Union into the Greater Germanic Reich. Roosevelt in 1933, resulting in the continuation of the Great Depression and the policy of United States non-interventionism at the start of World War II in 1939.

In The Man in the High Castle alternative history, Giuseppe Zangara successfully assassinates President-elect Franklin D. The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963, and was adapted to television for Amazon Prime Video as The Man in the High Castle in 2015.

The titular character is the mysterious author of a novel-within-the-novel entitled The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, a subversive alternative history of the war in which the Allied Powers are victorious.ĭick's thematic inspirations include the alternative history of the American Civil War, Bring the Jubilee (1953), by Ward Moore, and the I Ching, a Chinese book of divination that features in the story and the actions of the characters. The story occurs in 1962, fifteen years after the end of the war in 1947, and depicts the life of several characters living under Imperial Japan or Nazi Germany as they rule the partitioned United States. Dick, is an alternative history novel wherein the Axis Powers won World War II. The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K.

O Homem Duplo by Philip K. Dick