SS-GB 2017: What if Nazis were ruling the world today? | Daily Mail Online

Among the great what-ifs of history, the most chilling is the possibility that the Nazis might have won. This is the premise behind Len Deighton’s SS-GB, which has been adapted by the BBC.

Dusk falls over London. Along Mosley Avenue, formerly known as Whitehall, the red, white and blue swastika flags flutter above the crowd barriers.

The SS’s British Free Corps are out in force, fingers poised on the triggers of their Mauser assault rifles, but few people seriously expect any trouble.

Tomorrow, after all, will be a day of joy — at least officially. The government calls it Liberation Day, but most people know it as VE Day, marking the 70th anniversary of the day Churchill’s bunker fell to its besiegers and World War II in Europe came to an end.

Among the great what-ifs of history, the most chilling is the possibility that the Nazis might have won.

This is the premise behind Robert Harris’s novel Fatherland, Philip K. Dick’s The Man In The High Castle, now an Amazon TV series, and Len Deighton’s SS-GB, which has been adapted by the BBC and is airing on Sunday nights.

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