Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If Germany Lost War

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shit for a minute I thought it was a new book by Newt Gingrich

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> ENTERTAINMENT
> Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If
> Germany Lost War
> November 9, 2009 | Issue 45•46
>
>
> NEW MUNICH—The new Sci-Fi Channel series Fallen Axis, which eerily
> depicts a world in which Germany actually lost the Second World War,
> premiered Tuesday evening to high ratings in an alternate universe to
> our own.
>
> The much-anticipated television event is said to be the most ambitious
> ever produced by the science-fiction-themed network, which is a
> subsidiary of the Aryan Broadcasting Company. According to the early
> response, audiences in the alternate realm have been riveted by the
> show's vision of an inverted existence wherein a defeated Germany has
> been completely neutered by the Allied powers.
> "Imagine, if you will, a world in which Hitler's glorious master plan
> had instead ended in ignominious failure, and the Allies had somehow
> emerged the victors," the show's creator, Leonhardt Riefenstahl, said
> during an appearance on Entertainment Heute Nacht. "It would be as if
> everything we know to be true—the fall of Russia, the invasion and
> surrender of the American continents, Heinrich Braun-Hitler's
> consolidation of the various conquered states in 1973—had never even
> happened."
> Added Riefenstahl, "I think viewers all across the great worldwide
> National Socialist Empire are going to be terrified by the upside-down
> world we've created."
>
> Critics residing in the alternate realm have also responded positively
> to the show: Many praised its scarily realistic depiction of a postwar
> Russian-American union rising to economic dominance and superpower
> status with the help of gloating French and English allies.
>
> "Not only is Fallen Axis a chilling, what-if story of a world gone
> mad, it also asks a number of important questions about what Germany's
> victory meant, and why its sacred mission was so critical to the
> fatherland and all of humankind," said Hans von Winterstein, TV critic
> for the Deutsche-American Zeitung. "And Rolf Staal's performance as
> former cowboy actor Henry Fonda II, the monstrous American president
> who attempts to spread his country's insidious political and economic
> liberalism across the globe, will horrify even the most stoic among
> us."
>
> Producers said depicting the fictional, non-German-controlled America
> cost upwards of 40 million reichsmarks per episode, with much of the
> budget going toward recreating the cities of Washington, D.C. and New
> York exactly as they would have appeared before the famous
> tide-turning Luftwaffe strike of 1951. In addition, test audiences
> reported being impressed by the show's painstaking portrayal of a
> topsy-turvy 2009 in which American big-band music plays on every
> radio, Mickey Mouse spouts pro-Semitic propaganda from every cinema
> screen, and dilution of the supreme race runs rampant.
>
> The show is considered by many to be another boon to the Sci-Fi
> Channel's fall schedule, which also includes Battlestar
> Gleichschaltung, a weekly drama about a starship crew that enforces
> the total coordination of intergalactic society and commerce, and the
> hit reality series Jew Hunters, in which a team of paranormal
> investigators scour banks and former Polish ghettos in search of
> Jewish spirits.
>
> No less an authority than the National Socialist Empire's
> reichsminister of propaganda Helmut Goebbels expressed his admiration
> for Fallen Axis in a formal address yesterday from the Reichstag.
>
> "The Führer and myself are enormously pleased with this provocative
> new program," Goebbels said. "It shows you how close Germany might
> have been to losing the war had Nazi scientists not perfected the
> vortex gun just in time, and it is a reaffirmation of the values of
> self-sacrifice and racial purity that Germany's magnificent victory
> championed."
>
> Added Goebbels, "However, I must strongly warn the show's creators
> that it would be extremely unwise of them not to include a five-minute
> tribute to the Führer at the beginning of all future episodes."
>
>
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