- Pax Germanica
Pax Germanica,
Latin for "German peace", described the peace inGermany after its foundation in 1871 byOtto von Bismarck , theUnification of Germany ; it coincided with thePax Britannica . Bismarck's alliance system was designed to preserve the new, powerful Germany by ensuring a European peace and diffusing conflict among other European powers. As a coinage, "Pax Germanica" is analogous toPax Romana . Moreover, as a usage, the term "Pax Germanica" [ [http://books.google.de/books?id=5Zvo0mPPI9QC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=Pax+Germanica&source=web&ots=uJkoLdriaL&sig=XBgzLic8dDMz5EwAAEXuw6GkK2o&hl=de&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result] "Pax Germanica" in Latin text.] appears in the Latin text of thePeace of Münster treaty of 1648. [Heinz Duchhard (editor): Der westphälische Friede - Diplomatie, politische Zäsur, kulturelles Umfeld, Rezeptionsgeschichte. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 1998. ISBN: 3486563289]In
fiction , "Pax Germanica" also refers to the world order that would have followed an Imperial German victory inWorld War I or a Nazi German victory inWorld War II . The term is used in the literature, art, and cinema ofalternate history andcounterfactual history that are mixtures of researched fact and imagination.References
Literature
*Tighe, C., "Pax Germanica in the future-historical" in "Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik", pp. 451-467.
Fiction
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Swastika Night ", written byKatharine Burdekin and one of the earliest treatments of the theme of a possible Nazi victory.
*"Virtual History ", written byNiall Ferguson
*"The Man in the High Castle ", written byPhilip K. Dick
*"", written byLen Deighton
*"Fatherland", written by Robert Harris
*"1945", written byNewt Gingrich andWilliam R. Forstchen Movies
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It Happened Here " (1966), a British film directed byKevin Brownlow
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