Swastika Night is a futuristic novel by Katharine Burdekin, writing under the pseudonym Murray Constantine, first published in 1937. Swastika Night was a Left Book Club selection in 1940.
The novel is based on Adolf Hitler's claim that Nazism would create a "Thousand Year Reich". Despite its similarity to an alternate history novel, the book, written prior to World War II, was not an alternate history but rather a plausible future history, which did not come true.
Burdekin can be credited with anticipating The Holocaust and understanding that the Nazis were headed towards a total extermination of all Jews - which at the time of writing was far from obvious, either to Jews or to non-Jews, in spite of the measures of anti-Jewish persecution which the Nazi regime had already undertaken by that time.
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Swastika Night is a futuristic novel by Katharine Burdekin, writing under the pseudonym Murray...
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Swastika Night is a futuristic novel by Katharine Burdekin, writing under the pseudonym Murray Constantine, first published in 1937. Swastika Night was a Left Book Club selection in 1940.
The novel is based on Adolf Hitler's claim that Nazism would create a "Thousand Year Reich". Despite its similarity to an alternate history novel, the book, written prior to World War II, was not an alternate history but rather a plausible future history, which did not come true.
Burdekin can be credited with anticipating The Holocaust and understanding that the Nazis were headed towards a total extermination of all Jews - which at the time of writing was far from obvious, either to Jews or to non-Jews, in spite of the measures of anti-Jewish persecution which the Nazi regime had already undertaken by that time.
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