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Fatherland?

The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944.

The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'. In other words: the Fourth Reich.

Der völlig untergegangene Film Fatherland mit Rutger Hauer beschreibt eine alternative Geschichtsschreibung in einem Deutschland der 60er Jahre, wenn die Nazis den Krieg gewonnen hätten.
Der Artikel von Adam Lebor greift diesen Gedanken auf andere Art wieder auf.