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The Greater Nazi Reich, also known as Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großdeutsches Reich) or the "Greater National Socialist Reich", is 1 of the two major world powers in The Human being in the High Castle, the other existence the Japanese Empire. With its capital in Berlin, the German Reich dominates the entirety of the European and African continents, and also controls the majority of what was one time the The states in the form of Nazi America. The Nazi Empire is presented as the more powerful and technologically advanced of the two superpowers, and is in a state of détente with the Japanese.

Contents

• one History
• two Overview
  • 2.1 Territory
  • 2.two Flags and Emblems
  • 2.3 Politics and Policies
  • 2.4 Economics and Technology
• iii Notes & Trivia
  • iii.1 Divergences with Our World

History

In September 19, 1919, Adolf Hitler, a Globe War 1 veteran, joined a small party at a beer hall in Munich, Federal republic of germany. National Socialist High german Workers' Party (German language: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), or subsequently Nazi Political party.

Hitler based the Nazi platform on reversing the Treaty of Versailles, restrengthening the nation, and on a stab-in-the-dorsum (Dolchstoßlegende) notion that the German war machine did non "lose" the war but was rather betrayed at a disquisitional moment by traitorous civilians (Communists, Jews), thereby causing the war endeavour to fail. These policies proved popular among those embittered past the Treaty. The Corking Depression immune the political party'southward popularity to grow even faster equally impoverished Germans flocked to Hitler'south banner. The Nazi Party grew steadily until it became the largest political entity in the Weimar Republic in 1933.

Having more than seats than any other party in the Reichstag (the legislative trunk of the Democracy) Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor (Reichskanzler) in January 30, 1933. The NSDAP speedily moved to silence all opposition to its power by passing the Enabling Deed of 1933. This act spelled the cease of the Weimar Commonwealth by granting Chancellor Hitler emergency powers, abolishing all other political parties, and stripping away virtually all powers of the Reichstag. In 1934, after the death of President Hindenburg (who was all just a figurehead at this signal) Hitler merged the offices of Reichspräsident with his own into a new ane: Führer und Reichskanzler, more usually referred to as Der Führer (The Leader). In this new government, Hitler wielded absolute power and German bureaucracy became a drove of factions "working towards the Führer": Hitler issued vague instructions on many policies and expected his subordinates to work the details out on their own.

In the mist of the Cracking Depression, the Nazis restored economic stability and concluded mass unemployment with massive military machine spending and extensive public work projects, such as the continued construction of the Autobahn (high speed highways). These acts boosted the regime's popularity. Driven by a desire to avenge the punishments of the First World War and its hated Treaty of Versailles, Nazi Germany made increasingly ambitious military actions (much to the dismay of many of the German military loftier command). Starting time, in 1935, the land reintroduced mass conscription, and in 1936 it moved to occupy the Rhineland region (a demilitarized zone); both actions constituted direct violations of the Treaty. And then, in 1938, it annexed Republic of austria (the 'Anschluss') and through the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland likewise, a German language-speaking region in Czechoslovakia before acquisition the rest in 1939, pushing Europe ever closer to state of war. Finally, on September 1, 1939, Deutschland invaded Poland, igniting World War Ii, equally both France and the Great britain alleged war against Federal republic of germany to defend Poland'due south sovereignty.

It tin can be assumed the Second World War proceeded as it did in our timeline up until mid-1940, with Frg successfully acquisition Poland past the finish of September 1939, followed by Denmark, Norway, kingdom of the netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France past June 1940. However, thank you to the assassination of Roosevelt in 1933, the USA was evidently less constructive in World War II than historically, resulting in the defeat of Britain and the Soviet Marriage. Details of the State of war are relatively deficient, only characters brand reference to a number of engagements which happened both in existent life and the alternating timeline; these include a Japanese surprise set on at Pearl Harbor (presumably in 1941 equally historically); a boxing at the Badung Strait, and a campaign in the Solomon Islands (in which Smith and Kido fought on different sides). In 1942, the The states re-captured Hawaii, leading to celebrations and a sense that the tide was turning in favour of the Allies; in history, Hawaii was never captured past the Centrality, suggesting that the initial Japanese offensive of 1941-2 was more powerful than historically.

Following the conquest of Great britain and Russia, the Axis launching a 2 prong assault on both the East and West Coasts in mid-1945. Simply equally in our timeline, the Reich began a nuclear weapons programme in the 1940s, led by Dr. Werner Heisenberg. However, in this timeline, the Nazis succeeded in creating an operational atomic bomb, dubbed the "Heisenberg Device", by 1945. On December 11, 1945, the Nazis deployed ane of these weapons on Washington, D.C., obliterating about of the metropolis and the American fundamental command. With the destruction of their political and military leadership, the remnants of the United States authorities complanate and capitulated to the Axis. Victorious, the two new superpowers divided the globe, including the erstwhile United states, between them.

The Greater Nazi Reich employed a policy of genocide confronting not-Aryan peoples, with both Jews and Black people existence item targets. Past the 1960s, none are present in Reich territory. The Reich teaches that this genocide is a continuation of previous American policies, for example slavery and the genocide of American Indians. However information technology is not honest about the extent of the exterminations - for instance, in schools children are taught that Black people were resettled to their 'homelands' in Africa.

In 1962, men such as Reichsminister Martin Heusmann and Oberstgruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich assassinated Adolf Hitler in an attempt to gain control for themselves, then as to outset World State of war 3 against the Japanese . This, withal, was uncovered by then Obergruppenführer John Smith. Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler then succeeded Hitler as the new and 2nd Führer.

Political struggles followed suit. Reichsmarschall George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of Nazi America, together with the Head of the ARBI J. Edgar Hoover, attempted to overthrow the newly promoted Oberstgruppenführer John Smith. However, Smith managed to turn Hoover to his side and overthrow Rockwell instead. Himmler reveals that he had been preparation Smith to have over as the new Reichsmarschall and that Smith was "very close" to existence arrested. Smith was later promoted to Rockwell's former position.

Time goes on only almost of the leadership in Berlin is however doubtful of The American Reich as it is existence led by an American. Noticing that Smith's loyalty is in question, Hoover and Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Goertzmann plan to overthrow Smith by presenting bear witness of Smith'south disloyalty. Notwithstanding, Smith also managed to plow Goertzmann to his side and both kickoff to program a coup to overthrow Himmler, Hoover and the Berlin leadership.

The coup was after launched and was successful, and Goertzmann is at present the de facto leader of the Nazi Reich. Nevertheless, his bargain with Smith included that Federal republic of germany too immune the American Reich to have full autonomy, under the rule of John Smith, while Goertzmann himself led the remaining parts of the Reich. Goertzmann adhered to the deal, and John Smith was now the first Reichsführer of The American Reich.

Afterward the death of John Smith, the possible fall of the American Reich, and the The states being restored, the fate of the Goertzmann-led Greater National Socialist Reich is unknown.

Overview

Territory

In the opening scene of Season 2, a planisphere at the back of a classroom in Fritz Julius Kuhn High School is briefly shown with Nazi territories marked in red. According to this map, the Nazis control the entirety of the continents of Europe, Africa, as well equally the Middle Eastward and European Russia. In addition, the Reich controls Republic of iceland, Greenland, Iran, the majority of Northward America, Central America and the Caribbean islands, and sizable territories on the east coast of South America, including Venezuela, Republic of guyana, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and the eastern half of Brazil.

It is possible that Italy (which in the goggle box series is no longer independent, while in the novel the Italian Empire still exists) and the other members of the Centrality were annexed into Deutschland at the end of the state of war somewhat effectually mid 1950s, supported by the map in the opening of Season ii, just they are never mentioned and their fate is mostly unknown. During Globe War 2, they all had extremely shut ties to Federal republic of germany, and states like Romania and Italy put enormous armed forces and economic support into the Axis war attempt.

After the state of war, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, and other countries were possibly made cocky-governing puppets, inside the Greater Nazi Reich.

Flags and Emblems

The Nazi flag was designed by Hitler every bit his party's flag in 1920. It features a simple red field, with a white disk, and at the centre: a blackness swastika at a 45 degree angle.

The Nazi swastika is a prominent symbol in the Reich, actualization on many properties and civil products such as phone booths. Soldiers (especially those of the SS) and police officers wear swastika armbands. Nazi officials typically wear a lapel that has the swastika on it. It represents the Aryan race and the Black Lord's day.

Presumably, Nazi puppet regimes incorporate the swastika in their flags as well. The flag in use for the Nazi-controlled portion of the former United states is like to the old "Stars and Stripes" flag, except the swastika now adorns the blue field in the old place of the white stars that represented the forty-eight states.

Keepsake of the Reich

Politics and Policies

The Nazi regime is a National Socialist, totalitarian dictatorship. At that place is fiddling liberty of speech or press. The media is regulated to promote Nazi principles and ideologies. Schools, youth groups and other educational institutions are also designed to serve this purpose amongst the immature. Possession of outlawed or "degenerate" media is met with harsh punishment. Organized religion is regulated, and the regime appears to be atheistic, or has adopted a racialized form of Germanic Paganism. In our world, while the Nazis never made any official public condemnation of organized religion, information technology was a long term goal to somewhen subsume all religions (particularly Christianity) and replace them with a National Socialist platonic, which took its roots from a quasi-Germanic Pagan standpoint.

National Socialist ideology combined racial hygiene (racial purity), Anti-Semitism, eugenics, and Pan-Germanism with the goal of creating a German hegemony over the world. Racism, particularly Anti-Semitism, was a cadre pillar of the regime. The Nazis promoted what they called the "Aryan Race" or "Master Race", which was an ideal superior man, identified past light eyes, light hair, lite skin and a tall stature. These people were descendants of Scandinavia (Swedes, Danes, etc.) and Western Europe (Germans, Dutch, British, etc.) Southern Europeans (Spanish, Italians, Greeks, etc.), while not heavily discriminated against, are even so viewed equally inferior to Aryans. Untermenschen (sub-humans) included Slavs, Romani, Africans, and particularly Jews. Almost of these peoples were non considered worthy of life and were only meant to exist dominated, segregated, enslaved, or exterminated.

Asiatic peoples rested somewhere in between these groups but were all the same considered inferior to Aryans. The Japanese appear to have escaped this classification, at to the lowest degree by Hitler, who bestowed the title of, "Honorary Aryan" to the entire Japanese people (most probable to appease his powerful allies). Many other high-ranking Nazis, however, do not share this sentiment.

Chillingly, the Nazis have (very likely) all merely completed their "Concluding Solution" in their territories, leaving ethnic groups such every bit Jews, Slavs, and Romani near extinct. So far all scenes in Nazi-controlled America do not bespeak that any not-white, non-Aryan people (save for the Japanese) reside there at all. Other peoples accounted unworthy of life by the Nazis included the mentally and physically disabled, homosexuals, and "social misfits."

Economics and Engineering

The Reichsmark or "Mark" is the currency of the Greater Reich.

The economy of the Reich appears to be prosperous and technologically advanced. It is the leader of technological development in the globe as evidenced by its avant-garde jet shipping, monorails, rocket transportation and modern automatic firearms such as the G3 battle rifle and the MP5 Sub-Motorcar Gun (that appear to predate in this world their development in our own. However, throughout the series; WWII-vintage German minor artillery like the Mauser Kar98K bolt-activity burglarize and the MP40 Sub-Auto Gun were still used by

GNR soldiers and SS officers in The American Reich and, quite possibly; the Wehrmacht in the rest of the Reich. In that location is a possibility that aristocracy units of the SS are armed with the G3 and the MP5 while regular German forces still use the Mauser Kar98K and the MP40, and the fact that information technology is in sole possession of a nuclear arsenal.

This technological evolution has some footing in real life, equally Nazi Germany were pioneers in a number of fields such as rocket science and jet applied science. The Nazis also developed the beginning assault burglarize and relay computer.

A scene in The Man In The Loftier Castle shows the Nazis using LSD (developed in our world past a Swiss scientist in 1938 and farther researched by the CIA in the 1950's) every bit an interrogation drug, although information technology is unsuccessful.

The GNR too carries out diverse experimental and unethical research via the Ahnenerbe Institute, led by Dr. Josef Mengele. One of the Institute's virtually important projects is Die Nebenwelt, a device intended to create portals to alternate universes so that the Reich tin invade and conquer them.

The Reichsmark or Mark is currency of the Reich. It was originally introduced in 1924 as a permanent replacement for the Papiermark. This was necessary due to the 1920s German inflation which had reached its top in 1923.

Notes & Trivia

• Ever since Earth War Two concluded, The Greater Nazi Reich had ii putsches, one past Martin Heusmann and some other past Wilhelm Goertzmann.
  • It is possible that Wilhelm Goertzmann may have been inspired past Martin Heusmann's coup d'état and Heinrich Himmler's rise to power, which possibly led to Goertzmann'southward putsch against Himmler and his Nazi loyalists.
  • Assuming the rise of Nazi Germany in this globe is like to its rise in ours, the seeds from which the Reich would grow were sown with the end of Globe War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles, on June 28, 1919. Being the master belligerent of the losing side, Germany suffered harsh and humiliating terms, including crippling war reparations, near complete disarmament, numerous territorial concessions, and access of guilt for causing the state of war.

Divergences with Our Globe

• Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is still alive equally of 1962 and is mentioned every bit an "one-time war hero", having served as the beginning Reichsmarschall of Due north America. In our world, Rommel died in 1944, forced to commit suicide subsequently he was implicated in a plot to electrocute Hitler. The encompass story for this was that Rommel succumbed to injuries in a failed Centrolineal assassination endeavor. Rommel was among few Axis commanders, others included Isoroku Yamamoto and Reinhard Heydrich, who were directly targeted for assassination past Allied planners.
• Reinhard Heydrich, portrayed past Ray Proscia, is withal alive 20 years after his real life expiry. Heydrich was a particularly barbarous figure among the Nazi elite, Hitler even referred to him as the "man with the atomic number 26 heart". Around 75% of the deaths in the Holocaust tin can be attributed directly to Heydrich. In The Man In The High Castle, Heydrich was tasked with the subjugation of Africa after the war was won, it tin can be presumed the results were horrifying. When Heydrich invited John Smith to go on a hunting trip in Northern New York, he was afraid for his family, and gave his married woman Helen Smith a gun while he was away, with the understanding that if he didn't come back and Heydrich approached his family that Helen was to shoot her children and herself equally prevention of Heydrich'southward intentions.
• JFK International Aerodrome in New York is called "Lincoln Rockwell International Airport". In our globe, George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Political party.
• Werner Heisenberg, presumably under the German nuclear weapon project (German: Uranprojekt), adult the diminutive bomb which the Nazis apply to end the war in the U.s.a.. In our world, Heisenberg is most well known for developing Quantum Theory and the Uncertainty Principle. While Heisenberg was a member of the High german nuclear plan, he was not one of its greater contributors.

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