History Main / AlternateHistoryNaziVictory

## 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 at the time) — by the end of the war, Allied forces had racked up several 262 kills with technically-inferior prop planes. 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, having to be rebuilt after operation, and with a short operational life.

* ''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.

* ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' is set in an alternate 1964 where the Nazis now control Europe, and the truth about the Holocaust drives the plot. It's also something of a DeconstructedTrope; rather than the Nazis building a world-spanning empire, the Nazi state covers Europe only and has more in common with the later stages of the Soviet Union, slowly decaying under [[DystopiaIsHard the weight of its own tyranny]] and [[FascistButInefficient inefficiency]] while engaged in a Cold War with the United States.

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 durably win the war in Europe, never mind [[TakeOverTheWorld grow to a globe-spanning empire]] (and already ''got'' several breaks that [[RealityIsUnrealistic would seem improbable if presented as fiction]]), but many classics of this subgenre (such as TropeCodifier ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'') were written before significant information about World War II was declassified, or without doing much research in the first place. Realistic Nazi victory scenarios have to take these disadvantages into account.

* ''The Ultimate Solution'' by Eric Norden is set in a [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica nightmarish]] Nazified USA long after the Axis victory in World War II, with the premise of a PoliceProcedural depicting the NYPD hunting down and exterminating the last Jew alive [[spoiler:who turns out to be a traveler from our world]]. Among the [[CrossesTheLineTwice various horrors]] depicted in the novel are black slaves fighting Colosseum-style in the Madison Square Garden with the loser being gruesomely electrocuted to death, an eroticized torture show where a Slavic woman is crucified for the sexual amusement of Aryan patrons, Hitler Youth school outings to death camps where they get to watch color footage of mass executions, etc. The story ends with a coup by Reinhard Heydrich and his "Contraxist" fanatics hell-bent on destroying Japan in a WorldWarIII, even though this will also lead to Germany's nuclear destruction.

** ''Shtetl Days'': The Nazis won the war and exterminated the Jews. 100 years later, they start building Jewish-inspired theme parks with actors to honor the event... and the actors start BecomingTheMask because life in victorious Nazi Germany sucks more than a "decadent" pre-war Jewish village in Eastern Europe.

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 peaceful 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 just interested with "They won but then got defeated in the Cold War" — it also wants the {{dystopia}}. Stories of a Nazi defensive victory may also be rare because they bring up questions about how the still-existing powers that made up the Allies would have related to the Nazi state and — given the scale of Nazi atrocities, combined with [[{{Realpolitik}} the pragmatic and amoral nature of much of international diplomacy]] — may implicitly paint these states in a far less heroic or moral light. Given that World War II stories are often used to deliver parables or comment about the present-day world, that the war forms a large part of the national mythos of the US, UK and countries of the former Soviet Union[[labelnote:*]]It was/is even called the Great Patriotic War in some of them![[/labelnote]], and that these states' own ethno-racial and colonialist attitudes and politics at that time and other less-than-heroic aspects tend to be downplayed in narratives of the war, such portayals might be seen as politically sensitive or just plain jarring for audiences (though rare examples do exist).

Stories functioning on an outright and total Nazi victory 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 [[DieselPunk grunge-punk universe]] aided by [[{{Dieselpunk}} not progressing from 1930s tech]] (unless StupidJetpackHitler is in effect). The megalomaniacal architectural dreams of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler will often come true following the victory, with UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} and other cities being considerably reshaped, and the gigantic ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkshalle Volkshalle]]'' being built. To add spice to the story, add UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan to the mix, perhaps even expanding to an [[SpaceColdWar alternate Cold War]] between Germany and Japan.

* The ''Franchise/KerberosSaga'' and the 1999 animated film adapted from it, ''Anime/JinRohTheWolfBrigade'', takes place in an alternate 1950s Japan. Though Hitler was successfully assassinated by Claus von Stauffenberg, Germany managed to win the war and invaded Japan who joined the Allies in this timeline. The [[PuttingOnTheReich Third Reich-based]] name, weaponry and attires of the elite anti-terror unit Kerberos Panzer Cops (as well as the weaponry of LaResistance) are {{justified|trope}} by Japan being occupied by Germany (which recently moved out, leaving the country in economic and political turmoil).

* ''TabletopGame/AxisAndAllies'' allows up to five players to reenact World War II from 1942 onwards when the United States joins the fray. Sufficiently adept ([[RandomNumberGod and lucky]]) players can end the war more favorably for Nazi Germany and their allies. It's incredibly rare for the Axis to TakeOverTheWorld however, both because of the logistical problems with any [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica attempted invasion of the American heartland]], and because by that point, the USSR and UK have usually been knocked out of the war already by losing their capitals, which is its own win condition.

* ''ComicBook/Block109'' is set in a [[CrapsackWorld particularly grim]] "Nazi Victory" world where, ironically, Adolf Hitler's assassination early in the war made the whole thing ''worse''. After ThePurge, a new leadership takes charge and expands the war onto other continents, develops nuclear weapons, and wipes out most of civilization (although the war against USSR turns out just as hopeless as it was in real life actually, thus mitigating the "total Nazi victory" a great deal). By the end, after more than a decade of non-stop total war, [[StupidJetpackHitler secret Nazi experiments]] have unleashed a ZombieApocalypse that drives the new Führer [[spoiler:(who is actually a MoleInCharge attempting to subvert the Nazi regime from within)]] to press the ResetButton for humanity as a whole.

* ''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]].

* ''The Ultimate Solution'' by Eric Norden is set in a [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica nightmarish]] Nazified USA long after the Axis victory in World War II, with the premise of a PoliceProcedural depicting the NYPD hunting down and exterminating the last Jew alive [[spoiler: who turns out to be a traveler from our world]]. Among the [[CrossesTheLineTwice various horrors]] depicted in the novel are black slaves fighting Colosseum-style in the Madison Square Garden with the loser being gruesomely electrocuted to death, an eroticized torture show where a Slavic woman is crucified for the sexual amusement of Aryan patrons, Hitler Youth school outings to death camps where they get to watch color footage of mass executions, etc. The story ends with a coup by Reinhard Heydrich and his "Contraxist" fanatics hell-bent on destroying Japan in a WorldWarIII, even though this will also lead to Germany's nuclear destruction.

## 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 at the time) - by the end of the war, Allied forces had racked up several 262 kills with technically-inferior prop planes. 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, having to be rebuilt after operation, and with 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, while he did get the silver in the end he also got the starchy reply that "we do not speak of tons of silver at the Treasury. Our unit of measure is the troy ounce." 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. Germany's nuclear program was actually ''nine separate rival programs,'' each actively hindering the others and fighting for an ever-dwindling budget because of the Nazis' belief that [[TheSocialDarwinist competition will always breed results]]. In addition, one of the great wastes of resources Germany committed was the whole driving out or killing of the Jewish scientists. The scientists that were left were further constrained by ideologically-correct "German Physics," which threw out several relatively recently-discovered principles that made the Manhattan Project possible because they were considered [[HitlerAteSugar tainted by association with Jews]]. This could be HandWaved by saying that in this "Alternate History" they didn't do any of that, but then they wouldn't really have been, well, Nazis. Aryan supremacy was a core plank of the Nazi ideology, and they were just not pragmatic enough to compromise on that. 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.

** ''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, subsequently being effectively {{Unperson}}ed by anyone aware of TheMultiverse because nobody sane is willing to travel to such a [[CrapsackWorld dystopian, racist shithole]]. 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 clashing with the heroes.

** ''In the Presence of mine Enemies'': Germany won the Second World War because of American neutrality and later invaded the US in the Third World War. All "undesiderables" were exterminated except for a few hiding under secret identities, like the main characters who are German Jews posing as "Aryans". By 2010, the Nazi empire dominates the world but is stagnating and collapses within a year in what is totally not a ripoff of the USSR's fall in 1991.

* ''Webcomic/Housekeeper'' takes place in an alternate 1970's where the Hitler won the war by winning the atomic race... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and got his ass executed four years later for continuing to be a genocidal narcissist]]. Still, the fascists effectively won WWII, and continued to deceive the public by rebranding as the Unified World Council. End result? The Nazis managed to trick Einstein into working for them. Technology skyrockets to 22nd-century levels, but the old guard of bigoted, genocidal maniacs is still in charge. When their head scientist proposes a worldwide genocide that would make Hitler blush, all but one among the high council ''applaud''.

* ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'' has as its backstory the Nazis conquering mainland Europe, due to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill dying after being hit by a car in New York in 1931[[note]]this accident really happened[[/note]], leaving a more concessionary Britain and a perpetually neutral America. By the start of the game proper, the Nazis are already bent on invading and conquering the United States.

* ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'' has its backstory, where the Nazis manage to conquer mainland Europe thanks to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill dying in a traffic accident in the 1930s, leaving the British government more willing to negotiate terms of peace. By the start of the game proper, the Nazis are already bent on invading and conquering the mainland United States.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' franchise from ''[[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder The New Order]]'' onwards focuses on an AlternateHistory timeline where the Nazis suddenly turn their fortunes around, winning WWII after it gets dragged out into 1948, and establish a New World Order. Most of the issues they would have to overcome are {{Hand Wave}}d with the turnaround being the result of unearthing super-technology from a sect called the Da'at Yichud, and even then realistic consequences are shown for some of these - e.g. one of their discoveries was a formula for "super concrete" that they promptly use in construction of many of their post-war buildings, but actual mixing of that concrete is left as labor for prisoners in concentration camps, so when one of the camps in question ended up unknowingly housing a Da'at Yichud survivor he's been able to covertly tamper with the formula, causing them to produce weaker concrete.

** The live-action films in the franchise, ''Film/TheRedSpectacles'' and ''Film/StrayDogKerberosPanzerCops'' actually avert this and instead take place in TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Japan, most likely because the low budget didn't allow the proper DieselPunk setting. The rest of the franchise [[{{Retcon}} still treats these events as if they happened in the 50s' though]].

** 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 and Earth-2 are summoned over to aid in battling the Nazis. This universe was revived in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', in which it is now Earth-10.

** ''Literature/WorldWar'': When space lizards invade during World War II, Nazi Germany successfully defends itself and becomes one of the three human nuclear powers, and retains all wartime conquests except the western USSR (which is returned) and Poland (which is surrendered to the aliens). In 1965 the Greater German Reich fights and loses a short nuclear war against the aliens but, while forced to give up France and its nuclear and spacefaring technology, manages to retain the rest of its empire. By 2031, the Reich has recovered and is once again considered a world power.

There is one truth out there that most of the world is actually very grateful for: UsefulNotes/NaziGermany lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. 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.

## 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. Germany's nuclear program was actually ''nine separate rival programs,'' each actively hindering the others and fighting for an ever-dwindling budget. In addition, one of the great wastes of resources Germany committed was the whole driving out or killing of the Jewish scientists. The scientists that were left were further 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. This could be HandWaved by saying that in this "Alternate History" they didn't do any of that, but then they wouldn't really have been, well, Nazis. Aryan supremacy was a core plank of the Nazi ideology, and they were just not pragmatic enough to compromise on that. 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.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' franchise from ''[[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder The New Order]]'' onwards focuses on an AlternateHistory timeline where the Nazis suddenly turn their fortunes around, winning WWII after it gets dragged out into 1948, and establish a New World Order.
* 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.

--> ''Alternative history is fun. It makes for good [[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron Hoi 4]] games, but when really talking about it seriously, it's really hard to come by any academic conclusions outside of a few days of speculation because you begin building assumption on assumptions and before you know it, you've changed the motivations and decision making patter of everyone you are talking about, and then you are just writing fanfiction.

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 peaceful 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 just interested with "They won but then got defeated in the Cold War" — it also wants the {{dystopia}}. Stories of a Nazi defensive victory may also be rare because they bring up questions about how the still-existing powers that made up the Allies would have related to the Nazi state and — given the scale of Nazi atrocities, combined with [[{{Realpolitik}} the pragmatic and amoral nature of much of international diplomacy]] — may implicitly paint these states in a far less heroic or moral light. Given that World War II stories are often used to deliver parables or comment about the present-day world, that the war forms a large part of the national mythos of the US, UK and countries of the former Soviet Union[[labelnote:*]]It was/is even called the Great Patriotic War there![[/labelnote]], and that these states' own ethno-racial and colonialist attitudes and politics at that time and other less-than-heroic aspects tend to be downplayed in narratives of the war, such portayals might be seen as politically sensitive or just plain jarring for audiences (though rare examples do exist).

* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'', based on the famous Philip K Dick novel of the same title, as described in the literature section. Features the same overall geopolitics as the novel, but with a lot of AdaptationExpansion. There's a large plotline that takes place in Berlin in season 2, for instance, whereas the book only focused on the occupied American territories. On a more metaphysical level, the reels being spread by the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen and Takomi's visit to another AlternateUniverse establish that the world inhabited by the main characters exists within a much large [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]], containing some realities in which the Nazis won as well, and some in which they lost the war.

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 durably win the war in Europe (and already ''got'' several breaks that [[RealityIsUnrealistic would seem improbable if presented as fiction]]), never mind [[TakeOverTheWorld grow to a globe-spanning empire]], but many classics of this subgenre (such as TropeCodifier ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'') were written before significant information about World War II was declassified, or without doing much research in the first place. Realistic Nazi victory scenarios have to take these disadvantages into account.

Stories functioning on an outright and total Nazi victory 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 [[DieselPunk grunge-punk universe]] aided by not progressing from 1930s tech (unless StupidJetpackHitler is in effect). The megalomaniacal architectural dreams of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler will often come true following the victory, with UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} and other cities being considerably reshaped, and the gigantic ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkshalle Volkshalle]]'' being built. To add spice to the story, add UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan to the mix, perhaps even expanding to an [[SpaceColdWar alternate Cold War]] between Germany and Japan.

* ''ComicBook/Block109'' is set in a [[CrapsackWorld particularly grim]] "Nazi Victory" world where, ironically, Adolf Hitler's assassination early in the war made the whole thing ''worse''. After ThePurge, a new leadership takes charge and expands the war onto other continents, develops nuclear weapons, and wipes out most of civilization (although the war against USSR turns out just as hopeless as it was in real life actually, thus mitigating the "total Nazi victory" a great deal). By the end, after more than a decade of non-stop total war, [[StupidJetpackHitler secret Nazi experiments]] have unleashed a ZombieApocalypse that drives the new Führer [[spoiler:(who is actually a MoleInCharge attempting to subvert the Nazi regime from within)]] to press the ResetButton for humanity as a whole.

* ''Film/{{Fatherland}}'', based on the Robert Harris novel, posits the same "Nazis Have Taken Over Europe And Are Now Engaged In A New Cold War With The Americans" world as the novel, though with a few changes (the point of divergence being a failed Normandy invasion rather than a more successful Caucasus Offensive) and a more hopeful ending for the protagonists.

* The Guy Saville novels ''The Afrika Reich'' and ''The Madagaskar Plan'' 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.
* ''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.
* ''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]].

* The ''WhatIf'' counterfactual novels written by actual historians posits a few of these.
** In one of them, Hitler seizes on the delay caused by the Balkans campaign of 1941 to invade the oil-rich Middle East through Turkey, then launches a two-pronged Operation Barbarossa in 1942. Soviet resistance collapses within several months, while the U.K. is forced to sign a peace treaty because of the threat Germany then poses to India.
** In another scenario, this is however [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when Halifax signs a peace deal with Hitler in 1940. The Nazis still launch Operation Barbarossa, but the strategy used is less favorable and the Soviets were expecting them in the absence of a western front. The war lasts much longer, but by 1947 [[RussiaTakesOverTheWorld the USSR steamrolls all of Nazi-controlled Europe]] right up to the English channel and installs [[CommieLand communist puppet regimes]].
* Creator/StephenKing's novel ''Literature/TheLongWalk'' is a very subtle example. While it's entirely set in an OppressiveStatesOfAmerica, references made by various characters indicate that Nazi Germany won the war in Europe, attacked the U.S. East Coast, then ended up in a stalemate when both sides developed nuclear weapons. The subsequent economic downturn due to much of the old world now being dominated by fascist governments drove the United States to adopt a totalitarian government as well.

* ''The Ultimate Solution'' by Eric Norden is set in a [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica nightmarish]] Nazified USA long after the Axis victory in World War II, with the premise of a PoliceProcedural depicting the NYPD hunting down and exterminating the last Jew alive [[spoiler: who turns out to be a traveler from our world]]. Among the [[CrossesTheLineTwice various horrors]] depicted in the novel are black slaves fighting Colosseum-style in the Madison Square Garden with the loser being gruesomely electrocuted to death, an eroticized torture show where a Slavic woman is crucified for the sexual amusement of Aryan patrons, Hitler Youth school outings to death camps where they get to watch color footage of mass executions, etc. The story ends with a coup by Reinhard Heydrich and his "Contraxist" fanatics hell-bent on destroying Japan in a WorldWarIII, even though this will also lead to Germany's nuclear destruction.
* Creator/JoWalton's ''Small Change'' trilogy takes place in an alternate 1940s wherein Nazi Germany has essentially conquered Western Europe, sympathizer UsefulNotes/CharlesLindbergh leads the US, and the remaining fight is on the Eastern Front. Britons ousted UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill at the start of the decade and made peace with Hitler in exchange for a promise not to invade.

* 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:

* Series/{{Arrowverse}}:

* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'', based on the famous Philip K Dick novel of the same title, as described in the literature section. Features the same overall geopolitics as the novel, but with a lot of AdaptationExpansion. There's a large plotline that takes place in Berlin in season 2, for instance, whereas the book only focused on the occupied American territories. On a more metaphysical level, the reels being spread by the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen and Takomi's visit to another AlternateUniverse establish that the world inhabited by the main characters exists within a much large [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]], containing some realities in which the Nazis won as well, and some in which they lost the war.
* ''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.
* The Creator/{{BBC}} serial ''An Englishman's Castle" is set in an alternate 1970s, in which Nazi Germany had invaded and occupied 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.
* ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'' is set in an AlternateHistory England. A brief news story in the episode "Lady Penelope" mentions how "the German Reich" is allowing self-governing autonomy for the Netherlands, implying that Nazi Germany still exists and still occupies parts of Europe in this universe. Which might explain the presence the fascistic Raven Society has and the British government being lenient against it. In fact, this might well be a plausible representation of an alternate post-World War II Britain had Viscount Halifax become Prime Minister instead of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill and made peace with Germany in 1940 instead of keeping the fight going. Good commercial relations with Nazi Germany might also explain the widespread use of MP-40 submachine guns among the English law enforcement forces and army in the series while in real life it was the [=L2A3=] Sterling that was provided to British armed forces after World War II.
* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' travel back in time to World War II and are too busy partying with their younger selves and trying to fix old mistakes to concentrate on their original mission: KILL HITLER! When they return to the future, they discover that Hitler has taken over the world.

* ''VideoGame/TitanicAdventureOutOfTime'': [[spoiler:3 of the game's endings have the Nazis conquer Europe and defeat Britain. The first two simply have them march into Britain and then send an execution squad to the protagonist's house and killing him then and there. The 3rd ending, however, has the Luftwaffe bomb London with a nuclear device they themselves pioneered and developed.]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' franchise from ''[[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder The New Order]]'' onwards focuses on an AlternateHistory timeline where the Nazis suddenly turn their fortunes around, winning WWII after it gets dragged out into 1948, and establish a New World Order.
* 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.

* Fury Software's ''Strategic Command'' can keep the war going up until 1947. Skilled enough players can secure victory for Germany in Europe and even conquer Canada and the US East Coast.

---> ''Alternative history is fun. It makes for good [[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron Hoi 4]] games, but when really talking about it seriously, it's really hard to come by any academic conclusions outside of a few days of speculation because you begin building assumption on assumptions and before you know it, you've changed the motivations and decision making patter of everyone you are talking about, and then you are just writing fanfiction.

Stories functioning on an outright and total Nazi victory 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 [[DieselPunk grunge-punk universe]] aided by not progressing from 1930s tech (unless StupidJetpackHitler is in effect). The megalomaniacal architectural dreams of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler will often come true following the victory, with UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} and other cities being considerably reshaped, and the gigantic ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkshalle Volkshalle]]'' being built. To add spice to the story, add UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan to the mix, perhaps even expanding to an alternate Cold War between Germany and Japan.

Stories functioning on an outright and total Nazi victory 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 [[DieselPunk grunge-punk universe]] aided by not progressing from 1930s tech (unless StupidJetpackHitler is in effect). The megalomaniacal architectural dreams of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler will often come true following the victory, with UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} and other cities being considerably reshaped, and the gigantic ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkshalle Volkshalle]]'' being built.