Hitler is an undercover Abteilung III b agent who,after the defeat of the Central Powers,is now jobless and is a double agent for the Communists
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Hitler is an undercover Abteilung III b agent who,after the defeat of the Central Powers,is now jobless and is a double agent for the Communists
It comes out of nowhere as a way to explain why Hitler is still in Constanta after the Germans have retreated and,in classic Romanian AH writing,the author cares more about the idea than executing it properly.?!?!?!?!
Any exceptions people know to the general trend of "the farther from the POD, the worse it gets?"
I don't agree with this, mainly because Fight and Be Right to be the story of Alt-Randolph Churchill if anything. Once he's died it would be like continuing a popular TV show with your main character dead, sure you could do that, but it would be a bit hollow.For me personally Fight and Be Right does feel unfinished; I do feel like EdT should have carried it out to 1940 as the world by then is completely different to the world as FaBR ended.
The Years of Rice and Salt remains quality, but as others have said, it was never about the PoD per se.
Hitler isn't someone you think as being even semi good as a WW1 spy.
with Rakovski proposing that "Dolfi" should write a book called Our Struggle and hahahaha GET IT
I mean, he spied for the Reichswehr IOTL. If anything he was too successful.
I mean, he spied for the Reichswehr IOTL. If anything he was too successful.
Liviu Radu also wrote a book about a Communist Hitler,but it’s told very badly,with literally all the OTL top Nazis becoming Communists (including Hess and Alfred Rosenberg) and Hungary remaining Communist.
Baldwin and Chamberlain still do the same things as OTL,but with the difference that Hitler is a Communist and Churchill makes his own splinter party out of protest.
Also WW3 happens in 1954 after Hitler and Stalin invade Poland and France and Edward Wood says yes to their every demand because he’s an dumb Appeaser (with only Mussolini and Carol ll opposing them) and then a Cold War between Communist Germany and USSR happens and then it gets hot after a bomb goes off during the 1 May Parades,killing among others “Comrade Air Marshal Goering and Comrade Interior Minister Hess”
Oh and Von Papen is basically the German version of Kalinin
The story is mostly told via questionnaires and interviews of the former secretaries of Hitler,Hess and Mengele,who still think their bosses were nice people despite the crimes they did. Hence the intentionally ironic title,Questionnaire for ladies who were secretaries of very good men.There you go. I had been aware that the basic premise had previously been discussed but I didn't know anyone else had a book on the idea. Having a look at it now and the format seems quite interesting although it's a shame about all the parallelism.
Narrative stuff, also, can obviously set itself 500 years after the POD and just drop a few hints as to what happened in the alternate world, and as long as the story is engaging and there's nothing too glaring, I'm probably not going to get too hung up on precise plausibilities and suchlike.
I think the key to having an implausible PoD is just to briefly demonstrate it to the reader, handwave it, and then never mention it again
And if you have to mention it again for plot reasons, never go into more detail - the more detail and page-length you dedicate to it, the more flawed and obvious it becomes
Okay,now I'm interested to know how that happened.I'm trying to wean myself off the need to justify everything through worldbuilding in AH - not in LTTW where that's the point, but in another project I want to do set in a different Cold War. I'm just going to imply vague and early divergences and not get into why Romania is divided three ways between American, Anglo-French and Soviet blocs.
This is the basic argument about The Man In The High Castle, isn't it? "This couldn't have happened" - yes, but how's the story, guys? (That one does go into some details on how the war was lost but in very vague strokes)