The Man in the High Castle

Extensive research was done for the cultures, particularly areas such as costuming, technology, and music, to develop an alternate world which merges aspects of WWII Nazi and Imperial Japanese cultures with the cultural progress of mid-1950s America. Although the series is set in 1962, the use of the 1950s for many touchstones suggests the cultural stagnation that would have occurred under totalitarian occupation.

The city of Berlin remains named as such. In reality, Hitler hated that name, and had he won the war, the city would have been renamed "Germania".

The copyright warning at the end of every episode is written in German and Japanese as well as English.

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