Pax Germanica
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Pax Germanica, Latin for "German peace", refers to the world order that would have followed a German victory of World War I or World War II. The term is mostly used in the context of alternate history or counterfactual history literature, art and film. This specific alternate history form has proven to be quite popular. Much of this literature is a mixture of on the one hand real facts and research, and on the other imagination.
The term has also been used to describe the period of peace in Germany after its foundation in 1871 by Otto von Bismarck, coinciding with the Pax Britannica. Bismarck's alliance system was designed to preserve the new, powerful Germany by ensuring a European peace and diffusing conflict between the other powers in Europe.
The term was coined in parallel to Pax Romana.
[edit] Literature
- Tighe, C., "Pax Germanica in the future-historical" in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, pp. 451-467.
[edit] Fiction
- Swastika Night, written by Katharine Burdekin and one of the earliest treatments of the theme of a possible Nazi victory.
- Virtual History, written by Niall Ferguson
- The Man in the High Castle, written by Philip K. Dick
- SS-GB: Nazi Occupied Britain 1941, written by Len Deighton
- Fatherland, written by Robert Harris
- 1945, written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
[edit] Movies
- It Happened Here (1966), a British film directed by Kevin Brownlow
