re: Man in the High Castle-Amazon Prime

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I know nukes ended the war and got the US to surrender. The underlying tone throughout the show has been how easily the US population seemed to have jumped on board with the Nazi ideals and become the people they used to despise.

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I'm saying I don't feel like it is all that dissimilar from actual history. When faced with the threat of total annihilation, the Japanese closed up shop really quick when we dropped the bombs even after steadfastly carrying the never surrender mantra throughout their entire existence as a nation. They decided that accepting defeat was beneficial to survival and got on their way to producing electronics, efficient automobiles, and weird and disturbing game shows.

In the alt-history, America might have seen DC nuked and decided that they better go along to get along if they didn't want to be vaporized.

ETA: I understand that after VJ Day we didn't force the Japanese to completely abandon their culture and swear allegiance to the west like the Nazi's did in the show.