{"id":95802,"date":"2025-10-06T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95802"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:40:58","slug":"fatherland-alternate-history-with-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/06\/fatherland-alternate-history-with-a-point\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Fatherland<\/em>: Alternate History with a Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-uxKZt8S8s?si=jUJaU3oHiyUcBCXj\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 11 Oct 2024<\/p>\n<p>The 1992 novel by Robert Harris is a great example of the otherwise generally mediocre &#8220;Germany won WWII&#8221; alternate history premise. By removing the regime from its current almost mythologized status as a unique and singular evil, instead portraying it as merely a repressive state in a Cold War, Fatherland illustrates an uncomfortable truth about realpolitik and atrocities. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:55 The Case<br \/>\n02:20 Out of Myth, into the Mundane<br \/>\n06:13 Detente and Bureaucracy<br \/>\n09:11 HBO&#8217;s Adaptation<br \/>\n10:01 Ignoring Inconvenient Truths<\/p>\n<p>CORRECTION: Somehow I put up a picture of Bormann when I was talking about Buhler. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<\/p>\n<p>And my own book, not alternate history, <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em> is available on kindle and in paperback,<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 11 Oct 2024 The 1992 novel by Robert Harris is a great example of the otherwise generally mediocre &#8220;Germany won WWII&#8221; alternate history premise. By removing the regime from its current almost mythologized status as a unique and singular evil, instead portraying it as merely a repressive state in a Cold War, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1118,28],"tags":[898,457,1593,122,98],"class_list":["post-95802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-germany","category-media","tag-alternativehistory","tag-fascism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oVc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95803,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95802\/revisions\/95803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}