Fatherland (1992)

by Robert Harris

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murder mystery set in a triumphant Third Reich

FKarr | Apr 8, 2013 |

Interessant anderes Setting macht es sehr spannend: http://www.weberseite.at/buecher/fatherland-robert-harris/

cwebb | Apr 4, 2013 |

I'm glad I finally read this book. It has been on my to-read list for some time now.

This book has a possible answer for the question "What if Hitler won the war?". And it tells it from the viewpoint of a disgruntled, disillusioned police detective who whilst investigating a murder uncovers the biggest, closely guarded secret of the German Reich.

A well-written fast paced book it kept me always wanting to know more. And therein lies the issue I had with it. It just didn't tell me enough. I wanted to know more after it ended, what happened next.

I also wanted to know more about the universe of the book. Just how did the Germans defeat the Allies? Why wasn't France, Holland, etc. part of the new German empire? What about Franco and Mussolini? But I guess that's just the historian in me.

It was still a great book and I highly recommend it. (

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Shirezu | Mar 31, 2013 |

When I think of great alternate history stories of the Germans winning World War II, I normally think of The Man in the High Castle or Indiana Jones (though not the same, the feeling of a Nazi Superpower is the same). Fatherland is a brilliant blend of a murder mystery mixed with known elements of the Nazi history in the war. The story follows a Kriminalpolizei detective Xavier March who is investigating a murder which leads him deeper into discovering the true and suppressed elements of the Nazi party and their war crimes. Well worth the read if you enjoy Alternate history or if you just love a good mystery. (

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knowledgelost | Mar 30, 2013 |

The brutality and invasiveness of life under the Third Reich presented through the prism of an alternate world thriller. As such, it touches on the nature of war and history, pointing out (in dark reflection) the assumptions by which we justify our particular views of history. A consummate introduction to what has become Harris's trademark of presenting historical fact in the form of compelling thriller. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Robert Harris	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Galle, Hubert	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Lindholm, Juhani	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rambelli, Roberta	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Fatherland

Original title

Fatherland

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Le sous-marin noir

Original publication date

1992

People/Characters

Adolf Hitler

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.

Xavier March

Charlotte 'Charlie' Maguire

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Fatherland (1994 ∙ TV ∙ IMDb)

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WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award (1993)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1992)

Guardian 1000 (Crime)

Epigraph

The hundred million self-confident German masters were to be brutally installed in Europe, and secured in power by a monopoly of technical civilisation and the slave-labour of a dwindling native population of neglected, diseased, illiterate cretins, in order that they might have the leisure to buzz along infinite Autobahnen, admire the Strength-Through-Joy Hostel, the Party headquarters, the Military Museum and the Planetarium which their Führer would have built in Linz (his new Hitleropolis), trot round local picture-galleries, and listen over their cream buns to endless recordings of The Merry Widow. This was to be the German Millenium, from which even the imagination was to have no means of escape.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Mind of Adolf Hitler

People sometimes say to me: 'Be careful! You will have twenty years of guerilla warfare on your hands!' I am delighted at the prospect ... Germany will remain in a state of perpetual alertness.
Adolf Hitler
29 August 1942

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To Gill

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Thick cloud had pressed down on Berlin all night, and now it was lingering into what passed for the morning.

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Heyne (72180)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0061006629, Mass Market Paperback)

It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the FÜhrer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.

Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March -- a disillusioned but talented investigation of a corpse washed up on the shore of a lake. When a dead man turns out to be a high-ranking Nazi commander, the Gestapo orders March off the case immediately. Suddenly other unrelated deaths are anything but routine.

Now obsessed by the case, March teams up with a beautiful, young American journalist and starts asking questions...dangerous questions. What they uncover is a terrifying and long-concealed conspiracy of such astonding and mind-numbing terror that is it certain to spell the end of the Third Reich -- if they can live long enough to tell the world about it.

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Unveils the living nightmare of a world planned by the Nazis in reality, but never achieved. It illuminates the trail taken by the loner March, leading him to the discoveries of wartime corruption, Swiss bank vaults, love, danger, and - most terrifying of all - the black heart of the Nazi state.… (more)

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