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What’s left of the resistance is full of Nazi spies, and the manager, Don Warren, has no reason to trust Joe or to believe he could handle the dangers of the job. The manager isn’t impressed with Joe, since he’s a 27 year old kid who didn’t fight in the war and doesn’t remember what living in true freedom was like. Joe goes straight to Lariat Shipping and tells the manager he was sent by a friend about a job. Cleanliness and order are strictly enforced. There are various varieties of Nazi soldiers and police everywhere. Gonna take a wild guess and say they run on time, too.
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Plus it’s cleaner and the trains are faster. The city looks much the same as the real version as he travels through it, but with more Nazi symbols.
Joe walks through the Times Square area, giving the audience a view of businesses and advertisements. A man notices him walk through the lobby. “Lariat manager” and an address are written on the other side. The narrator finishes with, “Sieg Heil,” and we notice that there’s a swastika where the stars should be on the flag.Īs the film draws to a close, another man sits next to Joe and hands him a business card with a line drawing of an eagle on one side, which we’ll later learn is the symbol of the resistance. As a 20 foot tall American flag fills the screen, the narrator tells us that things are going to get even better. A bald eagle, symbol of American freedom, flies across the screen. This is all thanks to the foresight and wisdom of our leaders.
The narrator exclaims over how well the country is doing, which is attributed to the amazing conformity, order, productivity and traditionalism that’s been achieved.
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In a movie theater somewhere in New York City, Joe Blake watches a typical 1950s propaganda newsreel.
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In the opening sequence, it plays over maps of the show’s post World War 2 North America and then a series of national monuments which slowly change from what we’re used to into the ones the Germans erect after winning the war, so it’s worth watching the visuals closely if you haven’t seen them before. The episode begins with Jeanette Olsson’s awesomely spooky version of Eidelweiss, a song familiar to many from the musical The Sound of Music as the favorite of the anti Nazi Captain von Trapp. The Japanese fight back through their military secret police, the Kempeitai, whose methods are little better than the Nazis. The resistance also operates in the Japanese Pacific States. The Japanese government is under continuous pressure from the Germans to tighten up restrictions on Jews and other unsavory types. The Japanese are much looser about allowing former US citizens to continue their culture, and much less racist than the Germans, but they are still oppressive toward non Japanese citizens. Most non Japanese people are working class and down on their luck. The capital city is San Francisco, where the action in the show takes place. The Japanese Empire hasn’t been able to keep up with the Germans technologically or economically, and this is reflected in the Japanese Pacific States. Needless to say, there is also a resistance movement. Life is great, as long as you’re able to conform to the Aryan ideal at all times. There is a thriving middle class, however law, order, health and productivity are enforced with an iron fist. The American Reich continues the racist, oppressives policies of the Nazis, but it is economically stable and technologically advanced for the time. The Neutral Zone also serves as an escape for the types of people neither empire wants and as a hub for the continent’s thriving black market. The Rocky Mountain and desert states are the Neutral Zone, which serve as a buffer between the Japanese and Germans, who are in a Cold War. The West Coast states are now the Japanese Pacific States. The eastern and midwestern portions of the former United States are now part of the Greater Third Reich. The two empires have divided the world between them, leaving various swaths open as lawless neutral zones. 17 years later, Hitler continues to lead the German empire, while the Japanese continue to be led by Emperor Hirohito. The Germans developed the atomic bomb first and dropped one on Washington DC, leading the US to surrender. Recaps of seasons 2-4 are here, at the show’s tag. Season 2 was one of the first seasons I recapped on the blog and I was still figuring out my style, so if I get time someday I may revisit it more thoroughly.įor now, let’s journey back to both the Amazon Prime Video of 2015 and an alternate version of 1962, where the Nazis and the Japanese won World War 2. Since I haven’t recapped season 1 yet, I’m going to spend some of that time catching up. Heil Hitler! We’ve got about 2 months before the November 15 release of the final season of Amazon’s chilling alternate history series The Man in the High Castle.
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