It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow is an Alternate-History Nazi Victory timeline by Ephraim Ben Raphael where Alien Space Bats ensured Hitler's victory in the Second World War.
It's 1965, and the Third Reich is rotting. Technology from the future, it turns out, is not enough to deal with the myriad of inefficiencies within its ideology and government. Its empire is still a vast drain of soldiers, sustaining itself only through looting its newly acquired territories dry. With Hitler's victory less than two decades ago, the dream of a millennia old regime is swiftly fading, along with that of its erstwhile ally/rival Japan.
But they aren't the focus of this tale.
No, this is the story of the survivors, the victims who fled, fought or were enslaved, the opportunists and desperate, the masses who toil under the Nazis and dubious allies (not, as is often pointed out, that these are immutable and distinct categories).
This story can be read on Spacebattles
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow provides examples of:
- Alien Space Bats: A world where the Axis Powers won the war, thanks to a time traveler.
- A Lighter Shade of Gray: The European Common Defense Council may oppose the Nazis, but its founding members are either former Axis allies or pro-Axis neutrals that profited from trade agreements with Germany.
- Finland is a nuclear-armed democratic republic, but currently occupies Russia's White Sea territories while defending its past collaboration with the Nazis as pure necessity. Numerous Slavs would have harsh words to say to that.
- Sweden was a pro-Axis neutral that deported Jewish refugees and formerly ratified antisemitic legislation to appease Berlin.
- Ireland under Éamon de Valera shelters Jews and other refugees within its borders, but it briefly joined the Anti-Comintern Pact after the destruction of London and was awarded Northern Ireland by Germany in the peace agreement.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: The other half of the ECDC's major member states and allies:
- Great Britain may oppose the Nazis, but Gerard Wallop's government is still ardently fascist, with all that entails.
- Portugal's Estado Novo regime under António de Oliveira Salazar remains a far-right dictatorship with few freedoms for its citizens and enacts brutal colonialist practices within its remaining overseas territories.
- Alternate-History Nazi Victory: Some people should not be allowed to time travel. Some people are neo-Nazis.
- Chummy Commies: Several surviving anti-Axis partisan groups are of a socialist bent, notably in the Russian territories, Croatia, France, and the Mediterranean.
- La Résistance: Multiple partisan groups of various political leanings across the world (even the far-right) continue to resist the Axis forces. Many are backed by either the ECDC's Antifascist International or the GEACPS's United Peoples Front.
- Les Collaborateurs: Far too many countries, groups, and individuals have chosen to ally themselves with the Axis forces out of more than simple personal survival.
- Nuke 'em: A not uncommon fate suffered by many nations that faced Nazi invasion.
- The Rival: Imperial Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere has evidently become this to the Reich, having acquired its own atomic arsenal in 1951.
- Italy and Spain tried to become this by forming the Latin Bloc but remained merely the Reich's junior subordinates.
- Succession Crisis: Hitler's death in 1954 sparked one off, culminating in Reichmarschall Hermann Goering emerging victorious alongside Albert Speer and Alfred Rosenberg.
- Time Travel: A modern-day neo-Nazi traveled back to 1939 with two things for Nazi Germany: the secrets of future sciences and technology, and a large target list of Allied leaders, traitors, and various famous figures who would pose threats to the Reich.
- We ARE Struggling Together: Not all of the partisan groups are willing to cooperate with each other. Several Soviet diehards for example refuse to associate the Japanese-allied Russian Federative Republic and their "Russian Peoples' Army of the West".
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Goering purged several of his rivals after becoming Führer, the unnamed time traveler among them.
- Young Future Famous People: The time traveler's target list included several famous individuals who had, at the time, not yet risen to prominence yet. The Reich had mixed success: several surviving figures becoming famous anyway, while people otherwise forgotten by history become notable in their own right.
