History Literature / TheAngloAmericanNaziWar

** The UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict: [[spoiler: Ultimately averted. Despite desires for a Jewish state in Palestine, too few Jews managed to settle there before the Nazis exterminated their co-religionists in Europe, and a self-determination plebiscite in 1963 results in them being outvoted 69% to 31% by the majority Arab population.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: Nazi Germany manages to defeat the Soviet Union and secure dominance over all of continental Europe...at least for a while.

** [[spoiler:Germany has been permanently divided into fifteen Administrative Regions as per the Treaty of Barcelona, forbidden to reunite on pain of [[NukeEm being nuked]]]].
** [[spoiler:France is so devastated by the war that the relatively less-damaged region along the Channel coast chooses to become part of the UK. Martinique and Guadeloupe seek union with Canada, while French Guiana splits off and merges with Suriname and British Guiana.]].
** [[spoiler:Not only was the Soviet Union broken up into its constituent [=SSRs=], but Ukraine is split in two, and Russia proper is divided between a restored Tsarist state in European Russia, a rump Soviet state in Siberia, and the US state of West Alaska]].
** [[spoiler: The Netherlands Antilles join the U.S. as a territory.]]
** [[spoiler: Attempted by Muslims who seek separation from India, but ultimately proves unsuccessful.]]

* BigBad: Nazi Germany. Hitler [[spoiler: and Himmler]] in particular.
* BittersweetEnding: One the hand [[spoiler: the Nazis were defeated, and much of the world has managed to prosper]]. On the other hand...tens of millions of Slavic civilians were slaughtered, [[spoiler: so few Jews made it out of Europe, that Israel could not be established, much of Western Europe's cultural heritage and farmland were ''utterly'' trashed, and Germany was permanently broken apart]].
* BackFromTheBrink: Russia, Poland, the Baltic States, two Ukraines, Czechia and other long-dead states are restored after the end of the war.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Although the Allies' greyness is very pale in comparison to the pitch-blackness of the Reich, the morality of the Allies in the postwar world is open to a little more debate. The description of what the Nazis do to Europe once they've won the 1939-1943 war however is ''terrifying'' and worse, all of it is what they planned to do in real life as well.
* BlindObedience: The German people display an almost incredible faith in the Nazi leadership, and many younger soldiers especially display a willingness to become suicide bombers. [[spoiler: Even the nuking of a dozen cities doesn't shake that faith at all]]. Somewhat justified by the regime's total control of the media[[spoiler: and the ridiculously high standard of living enjoyed by the German people thanks to the wholesale plundering of Europe]].

* BurnBabyBurn: A favorite tactic of the Nazis, but most prominent during [[spoiler: the destruction of Paris. The Einsatzgruppen officially kick off the event by setting multiple fires and opening gas mains with explosives, allowing the city to burn unimpeded.]]

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: The A4 powers are entirely willing to inflict massive civilian casualties in order to avoid anything that might lead to WWIII. For instance, they [[spoiler: kill '''275,000 people''' in Stettin because they're rebelling in order to reunite Germany]] and the Allies are convinced, judging by what happened last time, that a reunited Germany will start World War III, leading to hundreds of millions of people dead.

* CoolTrain: Post-war, the United States invests a great deal of money into creating a transcontinental maglev transit system for itself, Canada, and Mexico. This was done to develop and refine the technology needed for a mass driver, which offered the benefits of cheap space flight and[[spoiler: a Moon-based kinetic bombardment weapon system]].

** China avoided the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution... but is a population time bomb and a political mess, about to reach 2 billion people, and whose leaders have been compared unfavorably, per WordOfGod, to UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, known to engage into [[MadDoctor Unit 731 stuff]] and multi-generational sentences for dissenters. It's become a dangerous WildCard in the affairs of the world internationally veiled support for taboo Prussia reunification, and supporting guerillas in the Korean Revolution.

* DeadlyGas: As in real life, Hitler didn't like it ever since he was exposed to it in the battlefields of World War I, but unfortunately [[spoiler: Acting Führer Himmler]] is rather fond of using it.

** For instance, to stop a pro-German unification insurgency in Stettin (which they had already almost defeated through conventional means), the A4 [[spoiler:hit the city with a 10-ton [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter kinetic]] round launched from a mass driver on the Moon, impacting with the force of 57.5 kilotons. Stettin and its 275,000 inhabitants are wiped from the map. After that [[MakeAnExampleOfThem demonstration]], the entire pro-unification movement collapses.]]

** During the war, [[spoiler:Himmler]]'s response to [[spoiler:Italy's defection from the Axis]] and [[spoiler:Molotov's slowdown of deliveries.]]
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler takes control of the Reich after Hitler's death.]]
* DressingAsTheEnemy: The Nazis actually weaponize this at one point. Following [[spoiler: the destruction of Paris]], members of the Werewolf "B" Detachment start to dress in captured Allied uniforms, speak English, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick commit horrifying atrocities against civilians, leaving plenty of witnesses to spread the word.]] Although it was an obvious ploy to most people even in the Reich, it still sowed seeds of distrust between civilians and troops in Allied-occupied France, to the point that over one-third of the country is deemed unsafe for unarmed Allied soldiers.
* DrivenToSuicide: Many Germans [[spoiler: after Hitler's death and once it becomes apparent that the Nazis will lose the war.]]
* EpicFail: The St. Patrick's Day Raids. During a ''de facto'' ceasefire, the Germans send hundreds of super-heavy bombers and thousands of airmen on a transatlantic bombing raid that has no purpose at all except massacring American and British civilians. The Luftwaffe force is almost totally destroyed in a CurbStompBattle, with only a small fraction of the bombers getting to carry out their attacks before being shot down. In the end, the Germans lose four airmen for every civilian killed on the ground, and directly results in a renewed war that [[spoiler: ends with the Reich's total dissolution]]. The entire thing is so [[TooDumbToLive shockingly stupid]] that it is generally attributed to Hitler [[SanitySlippage finally losing it]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: After [[spoiler:the nerve gas bombings in London]], the Allies tell air crews that their next mission [[spoiler:will involve civilian targets and they would permit anyone whose moral code would be violated to not take part. The Allied leadership expected a third of crews to drop out, but in the end less than one percent actually do.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood[=/=]PsychologicalProjection: The Nazis are puzzled by the fact that "the English" deign to waste valuable medical supplies on the wounded among their Indian "slave troops", i.e. that the English don't treat them like CannonFodder, as the Nazis do with their own "Pan-European" auxiliaries. It just doesn't occur to them that the English don't actually buy into the whole "MasterRace" bullshit.

** Special mention goes to the deployment of the Fieseler 362 missiles, an upgraded form of the V1 rocket that has greater range, speed and a compartment that can hold a CBU dispenser. These weapons are easily years ahead of what the Allies have and are noted as being difficult to make, with only sixteen manufactured before the Ukrainian factory that made them was destroyed. And after all that, [[spoiler: Himmler]] orders that only six of them be targeted at useful military installations in England, while the remaining ten are launched at Rome, Genoa and Florence in retaliation for Italy surrendering to the Allies.

** Likewise, the United Kingdom incorporates [[spoiler: the northern coast of France]], closes similar leases around the Middle east and extends its 99 claim on Hong Kong, with the option for ''another'' 99 years. Portugal reaches a similar deal for Macau.
** Canada grows to incorporate [[spoiler: Martinique and Guadeloupe]]

** By the time the Allies have secured France, there is nothing left that can prevent the Reich from losing the war. Of course they won't accept it.

** This is played straighter with Molotov's Soviet Union: Molotov can't coordinate what meager forces he has to fight the Nazis because he has to spend much of his time and energy keeping his hold on dictatorial power. [[spoiler: When the Nazis obliterate his power base, Soviet Siberia collapses into anarchy with dozens of factions competing for power]].

* TheGenerationGap: By the 2000s, European teens in the former Reich protest the unfairness of them being held to account for the crimes of their grandparents. When the Prussian wing of this movement makes an armed bid for independence and reunification, they convince the A4 [[spoiler:to bomb them from orbit.]]
* GermanicEfficiency: This is often zigzagged. On the one hand, the German war effort is unusually formidable despite the numerical odds, and the Nazi government does provide the German people a decent standard of living [[spoiler: albeit through the brutal exploitation of much of Europe]]. On [[FascistButInefficient the other hand]], the Nazis waste many of their resources and make numerous strategic blunders due to ideological inflexibility, racism, or just [[EvilIsPetty straight-up petty cruelty]].
* GhostCity: [[spoiler: Berlin and Nuremberg, rendered uninhabitable by British anthrax bombing. They won't be safe until the late 23rd century, if ever.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler: When Germany uses biological weapons in Britain and Italy, the British bomb Berlin and Nuremberg with anthrax, leaving them uninhabitable for centuries.]]

* GoodIsNotSoft: The members of the A4 are devoted to promoting democracy, human rights, and global security. But they have little problem going apeshit on those who dare challenge those ideals.

* HateSink: Unsurprisingly, the Nazis, due to their mindlessly destructive and cruel actions. It is little wonder that the Allies [[spoiler: forcibly broke the German nation up postwar]]. At one point, a nuclear commander resigns when [[spoiler: his request to drop a nuke on Hitler's funeral is denied]].

* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: Just 93 years after unifying, Germany is once again split into multiple states by the Treaty of Barcelona.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: The Nazis call the Allies "butchers" for bombing ([[spoiler:and nuking and anthraxing]]) Germany, but ignore their own crimes against humanity across the continent of Europe [[spoiler:and don't bat an eye at murdering entire German towns for "cowardice" (i.e. trying to surrender).]]
* IRejectYourReality: In July 1959, [[spoiler: when the Allies are closing in on Berlin, Himmler offers a "Peace with Honor", which would force the Allies to recognize all Nazi claims in the East and accept that [[KarmaHoudini no trial would occur for crimes perpetrated by the Reich]]. Naturally, the Allies reject the offer.]]
* IfICantHaveYou: The Nazis destroy culturally-significant cities, including [[spoiler:Paris]], in preference to them falling into Allied hands. [[spoiler:Paris is not just destroyed but its region rendered uninhabitable by biological agents, so that post-war, the French capital has to be moved to Lyon.]]
** [[TruthInTelevision Hitler had planned to do this]] in [[RealLife our timeline]]. The key difference is that the Heer general governing [[spoiler: Paris]] in our timeline was unwilling to carry out the order, unlike the SS in this one.

* KickTheDog: The Nazis do it constantly. Highlights include the massive destruction and depopulation of most of Eastern Europe, an almost total Holocaust, [[spoiler: the destruction of Paris and many parts of Western Europe, and the use of chemical and biological agents with no regard to the collateral damage.]]

* MurderSuicide / PaterFamilicide: [[spoiler: Many German families are the victims of these when the war starts ending.]]

* NeverMyFault: Following the [[spoiler: Operation Victory nerve gas bombings, Himmler publicly puts the Allies at fault for the deaths and demands a surrender and reparations to prevent further attacks.]]

** [[spoiler: The German razing of Paris and the USSR ultimately leads to the rest of the world severing ties with the regime with Spain, Portugal and Turkey all declaring war on the Third Reich.]]

** After the Saint Patrick's Day Bombings, the US and UK decide against immediately counterattacking the Reich with nukes because there's no guarantee it will defeat them and, worse, might give the Reich enough time to develop their own nukes before an invasion can be put together. [[spoiler: Eventually, once the Western Allies ''do'' start nuking the Reich, their fears about a lack of surrender are proven right. Thankfully it's too late for the Nazis to develop their own bombs.]]
** Five years into [[spoiler: the Korean Revolution]], America drops four low-yield nukes onto their last remaining columns. While controversial, it proves to bring A4 casualties down by 95% and bring an end to the conflict.

* PointOfDivergence: Hitler, in a moment of clarity, decides invading North Africa would be a bad idea. So the 250,000 German troops who would have been used up in the doomed Axis campaign in ended up at the Battle of Stalingrad... so the Nazis, not the Soviets, won. So this leads to the Nazis defeating the Soviet Union in 1943.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Nazis of course. In stark contrast to the more tolerant Allies, the Nazis shamelessly project their racism and mass murder on Slavs, Jews and other undesirables. This bites them in the ass due to their supremacist mindset driving them to make many strategic blunders, on top of earning the hatred of the rest of the world.
* PsychopathicManchild: Discussed. Some people see the Nazis' brutal trashing of European culture as a temper tantrum. But the InUniverse author sees it more like a divorced husband who destroys his assets to spite his ex-wife. Children lash out because they don't know any better while the Nazis act in deliberate spite.

* TheResenter: [[spoiler: France]] becomes this toward the Allies after the war. Once [[spoiler: a Sixth Republic takes power, albeit through what's widely seen as a sham election]], they begin regularly opposing and decrying [[spoiler: the A4, calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops and the return of the Channel coast, which they refer to as "Occupied France." It especially wishes to regain its colonies, insistently demanding they regain them to "guide" their lost subjects.]]

** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon served two terms in House of Representative, one term as Governor of California, and Secretary of Veteran's Affairs during second Goldwater Administration. Unsuccessfully sought Republican nomination for President in 1976.

** UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev died at Stalingrad
** Kim Il-Sung dies in insane asylum
** UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein served as a Captain in the Arab Legion
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan serves six terms as President of Screen Actor's Guild.

** Earl Warren was a three Term Governor of California, later being a Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

** Golda Meir was a Zionist political leader, later returning to her childhood hometown of Milwaukee when the efforts to establish State of Israel sponsored by the UN Right of Self Determination failed. Later became Lt. Governor of Wisconsin from 1970-1974.
** UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet was a Chilean Army officer and politician who attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile. He ended up serving 12 years in prison for his failed Coup attempt, later attempting to run for political office with little success.

* RussianGuySuffersMost: The USSR is '''brutalized''' by the Nazis, suffering '''62 million''' civilian dead alone. [[spoiler: And their country goes through another civil war after the Nazis decapitate their leadership.]]

** Some of the most formidable troops for the Axis are in fact the remnants of the Heer who participated in the initial invasion of Europe in the 1940's, pressed back into service in their forties and fifties by 1958 with mostly obsolete weapons they used back then. Their methodical and rational approach to battle means that despite these disadvantages, the "old bastards" manage to perform well, even sometimes impressively against superior Allied forces. Meanwhile the SS and Hitler Youth forces made up of young men and [[ChildSoldiers kids]] brainwashed by Nazi propaganda and armed with modern weapons [[TheBerserker fight like maniacs with little regard for their safety or tactics]], being scary to face [[CurbStompBattle but easy to beat]].

* SpinOff: [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/an-anglo-american-nazi-war-isot.354596/ An Anglo-American Nazi War ISOT]], where [[spoiler: the Nazis from in-universe, prior to the St. Patrick's Day Raids, are transported to our world in 2014.]]
* StepfordSmiler: After the Nazi's ill-advised attack on Britain and America, many European civilians happily celebrate the "strategic blow" against the Allies to avoid being seen as defeatist. Privately, these citizens were [[ThisIsGonnaSuck actually horrified]] by the Nazis' willingness to pick a fight with two major powers.

** However, large parts of the rest of the world are better off than our own. An unpartitioned India is the world's largest economy, while South America is much more politically stable with Brazil and Argentina being first-world economies. Open wars are less common due to the threat of A4 intervention, genocides are prevented, and Africa is less prone to civil wars and famines.

** [[spoiler:The Cabal's plan is to develop a DepopulationBomb to exterminate all non-Chinese, so that their swollen population can recolonize the entire planet. If either the A4 or India got wind of what the Cabal were up to, they'd likely [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure nuke China from end to end]].]]

* ForWantOfANail: Hitler, in a moment of clarity, decides invading North Africa would be a bad idea. So the 250,000 German troops who would have been used up in the doomed Axis campaign in ended up at the Battle of Stalingrad… so the Nazis, not the Soviets, won. So this leads to the Nazis defeating the Soviet Union in 1943.

* BittersweetEnding:
** One the hand [[spoiler: the Nazis were defeated, and much of the world has managed to prosper]]. On the other hand...tens of millions of Slavic civilians were slaughtered, [[spoiler: so few Jews made it out of Europe, that Israel could not be established, much of Western Europe's cultural heritage and farmland were ''utterly'' trashed, and Germany was permanently broken apart]].

* MayItNeverHappenAgain: Once the Allies end World War 2, they become determined to ensure that a conflict of its sheer scale can never happen again. This means permanently dividing Germany into 15 districts, and [[NoKillLikeOverkill orbitally bombarding the city of Stettin]], killing ''275,000 people'', [[DisproportionateRetribution because there was a bid at reunification within its borders]].

* HidingTheHandicap: Hitler has a brain death shortly after the war is re-ignited.

* This is zigzagged regarding the Nazis:
** On the one hand, they manage to build a degree of prosperity for the German people in the early 1950s, albeit through the ruthless plunder of Europe.
** However, the Nazi leadership often wastes those resources on idiotic white elephants. They also make foolish military decisions for no other reason than their obsession with their supposed racial superiority and promptly make themselves so hated they unite the entire world against them. WordOfGod states the Reich would have eventually collapsed on its own once it ran out of cheap resources to steal.
* This is played straighter with Molotov's Soviet Union: Molotov can't coordinate what meager forces he has to fight the Nazis because he has to spend much of his time and energy keeping his hold on dictatorial power. [[spoiler: When the Nazis obliterate his power base, Soviet Siberia collapses into anarchy with dozens of factions competing for power]].

* FascistButInefficient: This is zigzagged in regards to the Nazis.
** On the one hand, they do manage to build a degree of prosperity for the German people in the early 1950s, albeit through the ruthless plunder of Europe.
** However, the Nazi leadership often wastes those resources on idiotic white elephants. They also make incredibly stupid military decisions for no other reason than their obsession with their supposed racial superiority and promptly make themselves so hated, they unite the entire world against them. WordOfGod states the Reich would have eventually collapsed on its own once it ran out of cheap resources to steal.
* FeudalOverlord: Nazi officials and veterans have been given landed estates in the East, with Slavic serfs bound to work.
* FinalSolution: Almost fully implemented. The total number of surviving European Jews is in the low four figures.

* GermanicEfficiency: This is often zigzagged. On the one hand, the German war effort is unusually formidable despite the numerical odds and the Nazi government does provide the German people a decent standard of living [[spoiler: albeit through the brutal exploitation of much of Europe]]. On [[FascistButInefficient the other hand]], the Nazis waste many of their resources and make numerous strategic blunders due to ideological inflexibility, racism, or just [[EvilIsPetty straight-up petty cruelty]].

* PsychopathicManchild: Discussed. Some people see the Nazis' brutal trashing of European culture as a giant temper tantrum. But the InUniverse sees it more like a divorced husband who destroys his assets to spite his ex-wife.

* ILoveNuclearPower: With the lack of nuclear taboo combined with a desire to maintain a domestic reserve of oil in the event of another major war, the US and its allies embrace nuclear power.

* GoodIsNotSoft: The A4 are devoted to promoting democracy, human rights, and global security. But they have little problem going apeshit on those who dare challenge those ideals.

* HatedByAll: All of the Nazis horrible decisions have made them, and by extension Germans, the most despised people in the world.