If Hitler had won the war

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If Hitler had won the war: The plans of the Nazis after the final victory is a 1989 nonfiction book by Ralph Giordano . Using facts and fully developed plans, Giordano describes the consequences of a German victory in World War II .

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Different chapters set out what plans Hitler had for the military subjugation of the various states . Further plans included future warfare against the USA , the economic plundering of the conquered states, annexations (e.g. Alsace - Lorraine , northern France to the Channel coast , parts of Switzerland ) and the further implementation of the racial ideological program in Europe and non-European countries Continents (e.g. planned colony in Central Africa ).

Further chapters deal with the planned reorganization of the German Empire , the planned establishment of the Fuehrer's cities , the planned construction of the castles of the dead (or castles of honor for the fallen), the planned introduction of polygyny and the planned abolition of the Christian churches .

The plans for cooperation between the German Empire and the Japanese Empire are largely unmentioned .

reception

Volker Ullrich praised in time , Giordano had "thought together and summarized" what had previously been little known only in individual representations and available to the general public.

Jochen Thies complained in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the book was based more than stated on the standard works of the specialist historians Klaus Hildebrand and Andreas Hillgruber , without translating their findings into terminology accessible to the general public. Thies uses the word "copy".

If Hitler had won the war, he was represented in the Spiegel bestseller lists for several months in 1989 and 1990 .

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  • Ralph Giordano: If Hitler had won the war. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1989; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-462-02944-4 .

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Otto Basil's satirical novel If the Führer only knew! (published: 1966) describes the brutal and inhumane everyday life some time after a fictional victory of the German Reich in World War II.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Ullrich : ... and tomorrow the whole world. Die Zeit, issue 43/1989, October 20, 1989 ( online )
  2. ↑ Jochen Thies : Giordano, Ralph: If Hitler had won the war. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 9, 1989, p. 14 ( PDF ).
  3. ↑ Otto Basil: If the Führer only knew . Molden, Vienna, 1966.