'...And Tomorrow the Whole World'
What would Europe (and Britain) have looked like if Hitler had won the war? Michael Burleigh unveils a fascinating, if chilling panorama of megalomaniac architecture and social engineering.
Last winter, the popular press in Britain and elsewhere carried a number of features about the imminence of a 'Fourth Reich', in alarmist response to the prospect of German unification. Ironically at the same time, West German best-seller lists were dominated by a journalistic account of what would have happened 'if Hitler had won the war'. In due course, reports of Ralph Giordano's book filtered back into the British press, resulting in the odd juxtaposition of Hitler's plans to demolish New York with five ton bombs nr to abolish cricket, next to articles about German economic hegemony in present-day Europe.
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