Exact prologue text?


Where can I find it? Very urgent.

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I hope this helps.

It has been twenty years since the Second World War ended with the failure of the Allied invasion of Normandy. A truimphant Hitler declared victory over Europe and the British Empire. The United States withdrew from the conflict, listening to those like Charles Lindbergh, who had argued against a war with Germany. In the East, only the Russians fought on, in a bitter guerilla war. American efforts turned to retribution for Pearl Harbor. That came in the summer of 1945, with victory over Japan. By then, American General Eisenhower had returned from Europe to the United States, and a humiliating retirement. In 1947, King Edward and Queen Wallace(?)assumed the British throne. Winston Churchill, who had barely escaped with his life after Normandy, died in exile in Canada in May,1953. In the years after the war, country after country of the old Europe became part of the vast Nazi empire of Germania. The Fuhrer's architect, Albert Speer, built a monument to the thousand-year Reich. Germania's capital, Berlin, became a Nazi showplace. The SS became a peacetime police force, patrolling clean & orderly streets. As the fifties came to a close, Hitler was able to put a more civilized face on the greater Reich, but news continued to be tightly controlled. The sixties began with the war with the Soviet Union still dragging on. Hitler desperately needed to conclude a formal peace with the United States and forge an alliance against the Russians, still led by the eighty-five year old Joseph Stalin. Hitler saw signs for hope in late
1960, with the election of a new President of the United States. The Fuhrer believed with President Joseph Kennedy Sr. in office, at last there was someone with whom a deal could be struck. Now, in 1964, for the first time in twenty years, Germania's borders are opening to the Americans. The world press has been invited to cover the Fuhrer's birthday celebration on April 20th. There are rumors that President Kennedy will attend a Germanian-American summit conference. An alliance with America would ensure Germania's invulnerability. But there are other, more persistent, rumors that could threaten Hitler's plans. There were stories that something terrible happened in Germany during the war. That the official Nazi story--that Jews and other minorities had been relocated to the East--wasn't true. There are also rumors that in the greater Reich, terrible things are still happening. Television, radio and newspapers are all controlled by the powerful Ministry of Information. Nobody, in the new Berlin, dares to ask awkward questions.

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Tried to google it myself and got nothing. Well, not nothing. Just a lot of reviews of the book/movie.

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I watched the movie yesterday in TV. But I missed the first 30 Minutes. So I didn't know what it is about. Just read in the "Videotext" that the Nazis won the war and that it is somehow a crime Story.

Without hearing this prologue first I was quiet suprised at the end what the secret was. Reading the prologue now I think it will spoil all of the movie. From the last sentences and with a bit of history you can guess it at once.

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I wonder why Harris has Stalin still alive. He died in 1953 either of a stroke or at the hands of his own inner cadre (as he constantly feared might happen throughout his career), chiefly Beria. I don't know what Harris had in mind thinking about that and why he decided that Stalin would not have died just as he did die. If that is in the book anywhere (I have not read that book since it came out originally) can someone tell me? Thanks.

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I just reread the book, and I'm almost positive that Stalin is only mentioned twice in it. Once is referring to the German victory over the Soviet Union in 1943, when the Wehrmacht cut the Red Army off from its oil supplies, and "Stalin's war machine had simply ground to a halt for want of fuel."

The other is when Charlie says that "wartime is different. All countries do wicked things in wartime [...] the Americans have been allies of the Russians for the past twenty years. Remember what the Russians did?" March reflects that the Germans discovered the mass graves of Stalin's victims as they advanced East, and that those crimes are now well known -- there's an entire school of historical inquiry dedicated to "Stalin's holocaust," the gulags have been preserved as monuments to the dead, documentaries show films of Stalin's victims, some of whom look like "walking skeletons," etc.

So the book doesn't seem to say that Stalin is still alive, or that he's dead. Harris is clearly making the point that the winners write the history books, and had Germany won the war, there would probably be a lot of "holocaust memorial organizations" reminding us to "never forget" while pointing to Stalin's purges ... and instead of Simon Wiesenthal et al, we'd see their counterparts from among Stalin's victims.

My guess is that the writers of the screenplay decided to turn the idea that "all countries do wicked things in wartime" to a different sort of irony, that a country's history isn't just written by the winners, but by previous history as well, and given the right events, any country might turn "bad" or "good." Stalin's purges aren't mentioned at all. And from the movie's prologue, we know that the US pretty much cut and run after the failure at Normandy, and England became a puppet state of Germany after Churchill and others fled to Canada. So at some point, Roosevelt and Churchill had to have said to Stalin, "sorry, dude, you're on your own" ... and here he is, twenty years later, the lone guy who's really, actively trying to put an end to Nazism, and has apparently never wavered in his efforts. Makes Stalin look pretty heroic, huh? I'm guessing that having him still alive was a purely dramatic decision -- it's just easier to empathize with and admire one lone heroic man than with one lone heroic country.

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If Hitler had won World War Two it's doubtful Stalin would have survived that. I really couldn't see him leading the resistance either, he was a pretty bad leader, even his own party didn't like him much. He'd have as much chance of being a heroic leader as George Bush does, that's not saying alot. I guess it just makes sense to use him though. He was the central opponent of Hitler, makes sense to keeop him alive for dramatic effect.

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