The Amazon Prime series “The Man in the High Castle” had a rocky start when it came to Nazi imagery. In 2015, the show, set in an alternate universe in which the Axis won World War II and split the United States between Japanese and German control, was the subject of early outrage. The cause…
A new advertisement in New York City for the second season of the Amazon TV series “The Man in the High Castle” shows the Statue of Liberty giving a Nazi salute. An ad campaign last year for the Amazon Studios show’s first season offended many Jews and non-Jews, and the new Times Square billboard in…
Counterfactual speculation about the Third Reich is at an all-time high. In recent weeks, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has claimed that German Jews could have resisted the Nazis more effectively if they had enjoyed access to guns. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested that Adolf Hitler never would have ordered the murder of…
“If you’re looking for another Jew to kill, you know where to find me,” says Frank Frink, the protagonist’s boyfriend, at the end of the second episode of Amazon’s latest TV Series, “The Man in the High Castle.” What would America be like if the Nazis had won the war? What would have happened to…
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