Fatherland – Robert Harris’s Chilling Vision of a Nazi Victory

What if Nazi Germany had won the Second World War? In this episode of Dystopedia, we dive deep into Robert Harris’s Fatherland (1992), a gripping alternate history that imagines a victorious Reich in 1964. Blending detective noir with political thriller, the novel follows Xavier March as he uncovers a conspiracy designed to bury the truth of the Holocaust.

We explore:

• Robert Harris’s journey from journalist to bestselling author

• The historical context of the early 1990s and the fall of the Berlin Wall

• How Fatherland compares with The Man in the High Castle and Wolfenstein

• The plausibility of Germany winning WWII and what that world might look like

• Themes of denial, complicity, and the banality of evil

Join us as we unravel one of the most haunting and realistic “what ifs” in dystopian fiction.