The world Hitler never made: Alternate History and the Memory of the Nazism Gavriel D. Rosenfeld What if the Nazis had triumphed in World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? What if Hitler had become a successful artist instead of a politician? Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's pioneering study explores why such counterfactual questions of the subject of Nazism have proliferated in recent years within Western popular culture. Examining a wide range of novels, short stories, films, television programs, plays, comic books, and scholarly essays that have appeared in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany since 1945, Rosenfeld shows how the portrayal of historical events that never happened reflects the evolving memory of the Third Reich's real historical legacy. He concludes that the shifting representations of Nazism in works of alternate history, as well as the popular reaction to them, highlights their subversive role in promoting the normalization of the Nazi past in Western memory. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University, Connecticut. He is a specialist in the history and memory of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. His previous publications include Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the legacy of the Third Reich (2000).