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* On Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, the "Nazi Victory" is generally seen as {{cliche}}, not only because it's primarily popular for newbies to the forum, but because it's very prone to AlternateHistoryWank and ArtisticLicenseHistory for the sake of RuleOfCool. In particular, positing "Operation Sea Lion", the planned Nazi German invasion of the United Kingdom in 1940, as a PointOfDivergence has become a meme on the forum for being one of the worst-organized invasion plans in recorded history and most unlikely to result in a Nazi victory. Still, there are a few timelines that have gained some acclaim for being well-written/researched, such as ''Literature/TheAngloAmericanNaziWar''.
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* On Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, the "Nazi Victory" is generally seen as {{cliche}}, not only because it's primarily popular for newbies to the forum, but because it's very prone to AlternateHistoryWank and ArtisticLicenseHistory for the sake of RuleOfCool. In particular, positing "Operation Sea Lion", the planned Nazi German invasion of the United Kingdom in 1940, as a PointOfDivergence has become a meme on the forum for being one of the worst-organized invasion plans in recorded history and most unlikely to result in a Nazi victory. Still, there are a few timelines that have gained some acclaim for being well-written/researched, such as ''Literature/TheAngloAmericanNaziWar''.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' is a vicious take on the scenario and StupidJetpackHitler with the point of divergence arriving at the very end of World War II through [[AlienSpaceBats the introduction of super soldiers on the Nazi side]]. The war gets extended, millions more dying, and results in an arms race between the different powers all trying to develop their own "Ubers". The Nazis' explicit plan is not to win, but to "make everyone else lose as well".
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* ''ComicBook/Block109'' is set in a [[CrapsackWorld particularly bad]] "Nazi Victory" world where, ironically, Adolf Hitler's assassination early in the war made the whole thing worse. After ThePurge, new leadership takes charge and expands the war onto other continents, develops nuclear weapons, and wipes out most of civilization. By the end, after more than a decade of non-stop total war, their StupidJetpackHitler experiments have unleashed a ZombieApocalypse that drives the new Führer (who is actually a MoleInCharge attempting to subvert the Nazi regime from within) to press the ResetButton for humanity as a whole.
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* On ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' a delusional Bones is sent back in time and saves the life of Edith Keeler, who then goes on to convince President Roosevelt to stay out of the war. This is a downplayed example since the consequences are never shown beyond the Enterprise being erased from existence.
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** On ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' a delusional Bones is sent back in time and saves the life of Edith Keeler, who then goes on to convince President Roosevelt to stay out of the war. This is a downplayed example since the consequences are never shown beyond the Enterprise being erased from existence.
** A two-part episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' is set in an altered timeline where time-traveling aliens had armed the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] with an arsenal of devastating energy weapons, leading to the rapid conquest of Europe, Asia and at least the eastern seaboard of the U.S. It features a highly entertaining alternate-universe propaganda clip describing the bright, shining future in store for America now that it's Germany's "partner". The point of divergence was the assassination of Lenin before he could turn Russia communist, though by the time of World War 2 itself, the aliens have become open allies of the Nazis.
** On ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' a delusional Bones is sent back in time and saves the life of Edith Keeler, who then goes on to convince President Roosevelt to stay out of the war. This is a downplayed example since the consequences are never shown beyond the Enterprise being erased from existence.
** A two-part episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' is set in an altered timeline where time-traveling aliens had armed the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] with an arsenal of devastating energy weapons, leading to the rapid conquest of Europe, Asia and at least the eastern seaboard of the U.S. It features a highly entertaining alternate-universe propaganda clip describing the bright, shining future in store for America now that it's Germany's "partner". The point of divergence was the assassination of Lenin before he could turn Russia communist, though by the time of World War 2 itself, the aliens have become open allies of the Nazis.
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* The Creator/{{BBC}} serial ''An Englishman's Castle" is set in an alternate 1970s, in which Nazi Germany had invaded and occuppied Britain during WWII. The protagonist is the writer of a popular soap opera (also called "An Englishman's Castle") that is set during the Battle of Britain.
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* Creator/SpikeTV ran a one-shot special, entitled "Alternate History", covering what would've happened if Hitler won UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo. It wound up being a spectacular example of ArtisticLicenseHistory when covering how we get to that point. Some examples:
## The biggest goof is the complete exclusion of the Russian Front. The Germans concentrated the overwhelming majority of their resources in the East and suffered the most casualties there. The American-British-French invasion of Normandy is often given undue weight as a 'turning of the tide' event because of [[AmericaWonWorldWarII Hollywood movies focusing primarily on the Western front]]. While it certainly ''sped up'' the German defeat, by the middle of 1944 the German war effort was in fact already doomed. Even if the Germans had managed to repel the Allies at D-Day, they still had the whole issue of millions of pissed off Soviets marching on Berlin to deal with, not having time to contemplate invading the UK and the US.
## The rationale they give for a German victory in D-Day is... deployment of the Me-262 jet fighter. One of the key aspects of Operation Overlord was ''aerial supremacy''; the Allies controlled the skies over the Channel. The Me-262 had some advantages over propeller based fighters, but the jet engines didn't make it a superplane (its performance not being critically better than any other plane constructed) - by the end of the war, Allied forces had racked up several 262 kills. Additionally, by 1944 Germany was having several problems with manufacture of jet engines - namely, they no longer had the resources to make them properly. The engines they could manufacture didn't last - they had to be rebuilt after operation, and had a short operational life.
## Then there's the whole [[NukeEm "nuke the East Coast"]] bit. There's a reason the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' games have always made The Manhattan Project a world wonder - the effort to produce a viable nuclear weapon required a massive amount of research and resources; there's a famous anecdote that when General Groves asked for such-and-such a number of tons of silver from the U.S. Treasury, he got the starchy reply that "we do not speak of tons of silver at the Treasury. Our unit of measure is the troy ounce." (He did get the silver in the end.) The production of fissionable material alone took not only massive facilities to process the material, but large amounts of power to run said facilities (which is why the facilities were built in the Tennessee Valley.) Then there was figuring out how to make an atomic bomb actually work. And the US faced all that without any serious efforts to undermine the project - whereas Germany had their program hindered by several notable acts of sabotage, such as having a major shipment of heavy water scuttled. In addition, one of the great wastes of resources Germany committed was the whole driving out or killing of the Jewish scientists. You could say that in this "Alternate History" they didn't do that, but then they wouldn't really have been, well, Nazis. Aryan supremacy was a core plank of Nazi belief systems, and they were just not pragmatic enough to compromise on that.
## There was also the fact that Germany's nuclear program was actually ''nine separate rival programs,'' each actively hindering and the others and fighting for ever-dwindling budget. They were also constrained by ideologically-correct "German Physics," which threw out several relatively recently-discovered principles that made the Manhattan Project possible because they were considered tainted by association with Jews. The Nazis did everything possible to make sure that their nuclear programs would be nothing but abject failures in ''every area imaginable'', something "Germans make nukes first" scenarios conveniently gloss over.
## Hell, even if they DID manage to win the war by forcing the US and Soviets to surrender over nuclear bombs, there is no way they would ever enforce their laws in the US. The militaristic and patriotic nature of the nations would encourage an active rebellion against their controllers. Same goes with the United Kingdom. Controlling and patrolling a nation is much harder than forcing it to surrender (as has been evidenced several times in the Middle East). Germany would be burning through resources and money to no end trying to even establish a proper police force.
## The biggest goof is the complete exclusion of the Russian Front. The Germans concentrated the overwhelming majority of their resources in the East and suffered the most casualties there. The American-British-French invasion of Normandy is often given undue weight as a 'turning of the tide' event because of [[AmericaWonWorldWarII Hollywood movies focusing primarily on the Western front]]. While it certainly ''sped up'' the German defeat, by the middle of 1944 the German war effort was in fact already doomed. Even if the Germans had managed to repel the Allies at D-Day, they still had the whole issue of millions of pissed off Soviets marching on Berlin to deal with, not having time to contemplate invading the UK and the US.
## The rationale they give for a German victory in D-Day is... deployment of the Me-262 jet fighter. One of the key aspects of Operation Overlord was ''aerial supremacy''; the Allies controlled the skies over the Channel. The Me-262 had some advantages over propeller based fighters, but the jet engines didn't make it a superplane (its performance not being critically better than any other plane constructed) - by the end of the war, Allied forces had racked up several 262 kills. Additionally, by 1944 Germany was having several problems with manufacture of jet engines - namely, they no longer had the resources to make them properly. The engines they could manufacture didn't last - they had to be rebuilt after operation, and had a short operational life.
## Then there's the whole [[NukeEm "nuke the East Coast"]] bit. There's a reason the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' games have always made The Manhattan Project a world wonder - the effort to produce a viable nuclear weapon required a massive amount of research and resources; there's a famous anecdote that when General Groves asked for such-and-such a number of tons of silver from the U.S. Treasury, he got the starchy reply that "we do not speak of tons of silver at the Treasury. Our unit of measure is the troy ounce." (He did get the silver in the end.) The production of fissionable material alone took not only massive facilities to process the material, but large amounts of power to run said facilities (which is why the facilities were built in the Tennessee Valley.) Then there was figuring out how to make an atomic bomb actually work. And the US faced all that without any serious efforts to undermine the project - whereas Germany had their program hindered by several notable acts of sabotage, such as having a major shipment of heavy water scuttled. In addition, one of the great wastes of resources Germany committed was the whole driving out or killing of the Jewish scientists. You could say that in this "Alternate History" they didn't do that, but then they wouldn't really have been, well, Nazis. Aryan supremacy was a core plank of Nazi belief systems, and they were just not pragmatic enough to compromise on that.
## There was also the fact that Germany's nuclear program was actually ''nine separate rival programs,'' each actively hindering and the others and fighting for ever-dwindling budget. They were also constrained by ideologically-correct "German Physics," which threw out several relatively recently-discovered principles that made the Manhattan Project possible because they were considered tainted by association with Jews. The Nazis did everything possible to make sure that their nuclear programs would be nothing but abject failures in ''every area imaginable'', something "Germans make nukes first" scenarios conveniently gloss over.
## Hell, even if they DID manage to win the war by forcing the US and Soviets to surrender over nuclear bombs, there is no way they would ever enforce their laws in the US. The militaristic and patriotic nature of the nations would encourage an active rebellion against their controllers. Same goes with the United Kingdom. Controlling and patrolling a nation is much harder than forcing it to surrender (as has been evidenced several times in the Middle East). Germany would be burning through resources and money to no end trying to even establish a proper police force.
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* ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' is set in an alternate 1964 where the Nazis now control Europe, and the truth about the Holocaust drives the plot.
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** The DC verse features an AlternateUniverse known as Earth-X[[note]]According to legend, Len Wein originally wanted to call it Earth-卐, but DC editor Julius Schwartz, who was Jewish (although Wein was too), vetoed it[[/note]] where the Nazis won WWII and govern the whole world to the modern day. The Freedom Fighters are one of the few remaining resistances in the Nazi Regime. Many heroes from Earth-1 are summoned over to aid in battling the Nazis. This universe was revived in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', in which it is now Earth-10.
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->'''Wells:''' It's basically our earth -- same history, same timeline -- with one crucial and critical difference.
->'''Stein:''' So let me hypothesize. The Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the United States did, and they were more than happy to use it.
->'''Wells:''' Yes, the Nazis won the war.
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->'''Stein:''' So let me hypothesize. The Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the United States did, and they were more than happy to use it.
->'''Wells:''' Yes, the Nazis won the war.
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'''Stein:''' So let me hypothesize. The Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the United States did, and they were more than happy to use
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'''Wells:''' Yes, the Nazis won the war.
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* ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron'', while mainly a historical simulator, doesn't actually '''force''' players to stick to real-life history. As a result, when in the hands of a sufficiently good player, Nazi Germany can overcome the odds and end up winning World War II.
** ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'' is a an unreleased ''Hearts of Iron IV'' GameMod set in a world of alternate Cold War between victorious Nazi Germany, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan and the United States of America. While Germany managed to crush both the British Empire and the Soviet Union and launch a nuclear strike on Pearl Harbour in 1944, forcing the US to concede defeat, their economy couldn't sustain itself much longer and crashed several years after the war. Even though the dire economic situation was eased somewhat by massive introduction of slave workforce from the occupied territories, Germany by 1962 is a nation on the brink of collapse, with youth protesting across the country, the industry almost entirely dependent on slave labor and a conflict between various factions for power in the Reich, which turns into a full-blown Civil War after Hitler's death.
** ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'' is a an unreleased ''Hearts of Iron IV'' GameMod set in a world of alternate Cold War between victorious Nazi Germany, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan and the United States of America. While Germany managed to crush both the British Empire and the Soviet Union and launch a nuclear strike on Pearl Harbour in 1944, forcing the US to concede defeat, their economy couldn't sustain itself much longer and crashed several years after the war. Even though the dire economic situation was eased somewhat by massive introduction of slave workforce from the occupied territories, Germany by 1962 is a nation on the brink of collapse, with youth protesting across the country, the industry almost entirely dependent on slave labor and a conflict between various factions for power in the Reich, which turns into a full-blown Civil War after Hitler's death.
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* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'' set in a world of alternate Cold War between victorious Nazi Germany, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan and the United States of America. While Germany managed to crush both the British Empire and the Soviet Union and launch a nuclear strike on Pearl Harbour in 1944, forcing the US to concede defeat, their economy couldn't sustain itself much longer and crashed several years after the war. While the dire economic situation was eased somewhat by massive introduction of slave workforce from the occupied territories, Germany by 1962 is a nation on the brink of collapse, with youth protesting across the country, the industry almost entirely dependent on slave labor and a conflict between various factions for power in the Reich, which turns into a full-blown Civil War after Hitler's death.
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* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' has an episode in which the timeline is temporarily altered so that Germany won World War II and the UK is still Nazi-run in the 2010s. In an extra-grim twist, this happened because a Jewish man used time-travel powers to [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct attempt to kill Adolf Hitler]], and not only did he fail, but his smartphone fell into Nazi hands and they reverse-engineered it to gain a massive technological advantage over the rest of the world, causing their victory.
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* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', Portal Corp's founder stumbled into a dimension (Delta Zeta 24-10, better known as Axis America) where the Axis won World War II; he was killed there by Reichsman, the equivalent of Primal Earth's Statesman. Reichsman tried to invade Primal Earth. He was captured, but he would later be freed and restore the Primal Nazi enemy group, the 5th Column.
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* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' has an example in the very first book. Bob encounters an alternate reality where the Nazi's won the second world war by summoning a being known the [[EldritchAbomination Jotun Infovore]]. It was all down here from there. And by downhill we mean a [[ApocalypseHow Class X-4 Apocalyspe]].
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* On ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' a delusional Bones is sent back in time and saves the life of Edith Keeler, who then goes on to convince President Roosevelt to stay out of the war. This is a downplayed example since the consequences are never shown beyond the Enterprise being erased from existence.
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* ''Literature/TheProteusOperation'' starts in a world where, due to help from time-travelers, the Nazis and Japanese had won the war. Now, thirty years later, North America and Australia are the only parts of the world outside of their control.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[FromBadToWorse And entering the part they gave to the Japanese.]]'']]
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SubTrope of AlternateHistory. See also GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel, DayOfTheJackboot.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' three-parter "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E24To26TheSavageTime The Savage Time]]", the Justice League inadvertently travel to an alternate Earth where the Nazis rule America (and presumably the rest of the world) due to ComicBook/VandalSavage deposing Hitler during World War II and taking his place as Fu:hrer, allowing the Nazis to win the war.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' three-parter "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E24To26TheSavageTime The Savage Time]]", the Justice League inadvertently travel to an alternate Earth where the Nazis rule America (and presumably the rest of the world) due to ComicBook/VandalSavage deposing Hitler during World War II and taking his place as Fu:hrer, Führer, allowing the Nazis to win the war.
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->'''Wells:''' It's basically our earth -- same history, same timeline -- with one crucial and critical difference.
->'''Stein:''' So let me hypothesize. The Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the United States did, and they were more than happy to use it.
->'''Wells:''' Yes, the Nazis won the war.
-->--''Series/CrisisOnEarthX''
There is one truth out there that most of the world is actually very grateful for: The Nazis Lost [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII World War 2]]. And we're grateful because of the retroactive recognition of how different the world would be now if the Nazis had won. In fact, this is such a universal defining truth that lots of people want to either reinforce the goodness of Nazis losing or scare themselves with stories of what might have happened, anyway.
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Of course, there's different degrees to how conclusive the Nazi victory would have been, and probably a few more wars. Perhaps the Americans would have nuked the world to death, or maybe the British were a bit slow on the planes and codebreaking. And, with how nice Germany is now, a Nazi victory might have just meant a longer period of shit before kind of leveling out again. However, speculative fiction isn't interested with "They won but then got defeated in the Cold War" -- it wants the {{dystopia}}.
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Stories functioning on this will often include some kind of All-American [[LaResistance resistance]], as well as universal death camps (ones that everyone actually knows about) as a conflict to resist against, and a grunge-punk universe aided by not progressing from 1930s tech.
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Using this trope is typically prone to AlternateHistoryWank and DatedHistory: Nazi Germany had a lot of disadvantages and would have needed several lucky breaks just to win the war, let alone grow to a globe-spanning empire, but many classics of this subgenre (such as TropeCodifier ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'') were written before significant information about WWII was declassified, or without doing the research.
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SubTrope of AlternateHistory. See also GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel, DayOfTheJackboot.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:Comics]]
* Franchise/DCComics:
** The DC verse features an AlternateUniverse known as Earth-X where the Nazis won WWII and govern the whole world to the modern day. The Freedom Fighters are one of the few remaining resistances in the Nazi Regime. Many heroes from Earth-1 are summoned over to aid in battling the Nazis.
** The ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' "Fatherland" story is about a future where the Nazis create a machine called the "Darkness Engine" that depowers superheroes and metahumans. Without this involvement, they manage to win the war. TimeTravel prevents this future from coming to pass.
* Franchise/MarvelComics has its fair share of Nazi victory alternate earths.
** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': On Earth-98570, Reed Richards gains superpowers from the Nazis and becomes head of their party. On Earth-76611, Nazi access to vibranium wins them the war.
** ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'': Earth-597 is another Nazi victory earth, featuring versions of the team that now work for the Nazis.
** In one of the multiverses of ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'', the zombie infection goes to WWII and the Nazi won the war by being converted into zombies, that included some of the heroes being converted and joining the Zombie-Nazi army like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica himself.
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Subverted in one Megamorphs story where the villain was messing around history and tried to make the D-Day landing fail as he'd caused the American Revolution to fail, all in an attempt to weaken human resistance to the Yeerks. Unfortunately, he'd already changed time quite a bit, and so the defenders weren't Nazis but an allied French and German force. Hitler himself shows up as a low-ranking chauffeur in the army, and thus has no clue why these people are suddenly very angry at him.
* ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' is set in an alternate 1964 where the Nazis now control Europe, and the truth about the Holocaust drives the plot.
* ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'' is set in a world where the assassination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the USA's complete neutrality led to an Axis victory in WWII. By the 1960s, Nazi Germany controls Europe, Africa, and the eastern USA, while Imperial Japan controls Asia and the western USA. The tension between those two superpowers is reminiscent of the OTL Cold War tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
* ''Literature/ThirdReichVictorious'' showcases ten self-contained stories, in all of which Germany wins against the Allies.
* The Guy Saville novels ''Literature/TheAfrikaReich'' and ''Literature/TheMadagaskarPlan'' both take place in a world in which the Nazis were victorious, most of the African continent is under their control, and the Jewish population of Europe has been deported to Madagascar.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* Series/{{Arrowverse}}:
** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' reveals the existence of an AlternateUniverse called Earth-X where the Nazis won WWII and establish a New Reich that governs the whole world. It is loosely based on the comics story shown above. In this universe, many of the main universes heroes have {{Evil Doppelganger}}s that are allied with the Nazis, including Oliver Queen/Dark Arrow who is the fuhrer and Kara Danvers/Overgirl who is one of his generals. The premise of the crossover has the Nazis of Earth-X invading Earth-1 and coming into opposition with the heroes.
** Very nearly happens in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E1OutOfTime Out Of Time]]" and just gets barely averted. Damien Darhk and Eobard Thawne meddle with history, selling an atomic bomb to the Nazis which they use to destroy New York in 1942, leading the Allied forces to withdraw and the Nazis to seize victory. The Legends spend the episode trying to prevent this from occurring by first kidnapping Einstein (who they believed the Nazis would use to acquire the secrets to the bomb), but later it's revealed it was actually Einstein's wife who gave them the knowledge. With the bomb heading towards New York, the Legends have their CoolShip take the blast instead, averting the crisis that would have led to the Nazi victory.
* Both the miniseries and novel ''Series/{{SSGB}}'' take place in an alternate reality in which the Germans forced the British to surrender after the Battle of Britain.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' franchise has several games focusing on an AlternateHistory where the Nazis are victorious in WWII and establish a New World Order. Although some games play around with this and instead explore WWII being dragged out longer than 1945.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'', in the final days of WWII, Hitler is informed he's about to lose and orders the execution of "Plan Z", [[{{Ghostapo}} the resurrection of all the fallen Nazi soldiers as zombies]]. This causes havoc for the Allied forces who now have to deal with Nazi zombie mobs ravaging towns. Eventually, Hitler himself is killed by the zombies and joins the ranks of the undead but still retaining his human sentience, and leads his undead army to further tighten his grip on the Third Reich.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' three-parter "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E24To26TheSavageTime The Savage Time]]", the Justice League inadvertently travel to an alternate Earth where the Nazis rule America (and presumably the rest of the world) due to ComicBook/VandalSavage deposing Hitler during World War II and taking his place as Fu:hrer, allowing the Nazis to win the war.
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->'''Stein:''' So let me hypothesize. The Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the United States did, and they were more than happy to use it.
->'''Wells:''' Yes, the Nazis won the war.
-->--''Series/CrisisOnEarthX''
There is one truth out there that most of the world is actually very grateful for: The Nazis Lost [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII World War 2]]. And we're grateful because of the retroactive recognition of how different the world would be now if the Nazis had won. In fact, this is such a universal defining truth that lots of people want to either reinforce the goodness of Nazis losing or scare themselves with stories of what might have happened, anyway.
----
Of course, there's different degrees to how conclusive the Nazi victory would have been, and probably a few more wars. Perhaps the Americans would have nuked the world to death, or maybe the British were a bit slow on the planes and codebreaking. And, with how nice Germany is now, a Nazi victory might have just meant a longer period of shit before kind of leveling out again. However, speculative fiction isn't interested with "They won but then got defeated in the Cold War" -- it wants the {{dystopia}}.
----
Stories functioning on this will often include some kind of All-American [[LaResistance resistance]], as well as universal death camps (ones that everyone actually knows about) as a conflict to resist against, and a grunge-punk universe aided by not progressing from 1930s tech.
----
Using this trope is typically prone to AlternateHistoryWank and DatedHistory: Nazi Germany had a lot of disadvantages and would have needed several lucky breaks just to win the war, let alone grow to a globe-spanning empire, but many classics of this subgenre (such as TropeCodifier ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'') were written before significant information about WWII was declassified, or without doing the research.
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SubTrope of AlternateHistory. See also GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel, DayOfTheJackboot.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:Comics]]
* Franchise/DCComics:
** The DC verse features an AlternateUniverse known as Earth-X where the Nazis won WWII and govern the whole world to the modern day. The Freedom Fighters are one of the few remaining resistances in the Nazi Regime. Many heroes from Earth-1 are summoned over to aid in battling the Nazis.
** The ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' "Fatherland" story is about a future where the Nazis create a machine called the "Darkness Engine" that depowers superheroes and metahumans. Without this involvement, they manage to win the war. TimeTravel prevents this future from coming to pass.
* Franchise/MarvelComics has its fair share of Nazi victory alternate earths.
** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': On Earth-98570, Reed Richards gains superpowers from the Nazis and becomes head of their party. On Earth-76611, Nazi access to vibranium wins them the war.
** ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'': Earth-597 is another Nazi victory earth, featuring versions of the team that now work for the Nazis.
** In one of the multiverses of ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'', the zombie infection goes to WWII and the Nazi won the war by being converted into zombies, that included some of the heroes being converted and joining the Zombie-Nazi army like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica himself.
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Subverted in one Megamorphs story where the villain was messing around history and tried to make the D-Day landing fail as he'd caused the American Revolution to fail, all in an attempt to weaken human resistance to the Yeerks. Unfortunately, he'd already changed time quite a bit, and so the defenders weren't Nazis but an allied French and German force. Hitler himself shows up as a low-ranking chauffeur in the army, and thus has no clue why these people are suddenly very angry at him.
* ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' is set in an alternate 1964 where the Nazis now control Europe, and the truth about the Holocaust drives the plot.
* ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'' is set in a world where the assassination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the USA's complete neutrality led to an Axis victory in WWII. By the 1960s, Nazi Germany controls Europe, Africa, and the eastern USA, while Imperial Japan controls Asia and the western USA. The tension between those two superpowers is reminiscent of the OTL Cold War tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
* ''Literature/ThirdReichVictorious'' showcases ten self-contained stories, in all of which Germany wins against the Allies.
* The Guy Saville novels ''Literature/TheAfrikaReich'' and ''Literature/TheMadagaskarPlan'' both take place in a world in which the Nazis were victorious, most of the African continent is under their control, and the Jewish population of Europe has been deported to Madagascar.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* Series/{{Arrowverse}}:
** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' reveals the existence of an AlternateUniverse called Earth-X where the Nazis won WWII and establish a New Reich that governs the whole world. It is loosely based on the comics story shown above. In this universe, many of the main universes heroes have {{Evil Doppelganger}}s that are allied with the Nazis, including Oliver Queen/Dark Arrow who is the fuhrer and Kara Danvers/Overgirl who is one of his generals. The premise of the crossover has the Nazis of Earth-X invading Earth-1 and coming into opposition with the heroes.
** Very nearly happens in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E1OutOfTime Out Of Time]]" and just gets barely averted. Damien Darhk and Eobard Thawne meddle with history, selling an atomic bomb to the Nazis which they use to destroy New York in 1942, leading the Allied forces to withdraw and the Nazis to seize victory. The Legends spend the episode trying to prevent this from occurring by first kidnapping Einstein (who they believed the Nazis would use to acquire the secrets to the bomb), but later it's revealed it was actually Einstein's wife who gave them the knowledge. With the bomb heading towards New York, the Legends have their CoolShip take the blast instead, averting the crisis that would have led to the Nazi victory.
* Both the miniseries and novel ''Series/{{SSGB}}'' take place in an alternate reality in which the Germans forced the British to surrender after the Battle of Britain.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' franchise has several games focusing on an AlternateHistory where the Nazis are victorious in WWII and establish a New World Order. Although some games play around with this and instead explore WWII being dragged out longer than 1945.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombieArmyTrilogy'', in the final days of WWII, Hitler is informed he's about to lose and orders the execution of "Plan Z", [[{{Ghostapo}} the resurrection of all the fallen Nazi soldiers as zombies]]. This causes havoc for the Allied forces who now have to deal with Nazi zombie mobs ravaging towns. Eventually, Hitler himself is killed by the zombies and joins the ranks of the undead but still retaining his human sentience, and leads his undead army to further tighten his grip on the Third Reich.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' three-parter "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E24To26TheSavageTime The Savage Time]]", the Justice League inadvertently travel to an alternate Earth where the Nazis rule America (and presumably the rest of the world) due to ComicBook/VandalSavage deposing Hitler during World War II and taking his place as Fu:hrer, allowing the Nazis to win the war.
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