“Nazi counterfactuals are everywhere.
“After the success of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle, the BBC are getting in on the act with a five-part dramatisation of Len Deighton’s 1978 novel SS-GB, which is premised on Germany winning the Battle of Britain, the UK government surrendering and the Nazis occupying the south of England.
“(They don’t seem to have been interested in the north, which we presume is run by a Vichy-style collaborationist administration.)
“The first episode opens promisingly with a German air ace, who has just landed a Spitfire in the Mall to celebrate Russo-German Friendship Week – it is November 1941 and the Germans have been in occupation for 14 months – being gunned down by a plucky British resistance fighter.”
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