Impossible Histories annotations on WWII

These are annotations for the eighth chapter of the book Impossible Histories. I’m not saying you need to keep a copy of IH open next to you as you read, but it might make some things clearer?

p. 139
•epigraph:

…it is a question whether war and anarchy and confusion be not preferable to the deceptive peace and apparent prosperity of despotism, that, like the death-dealing vampire, soothes while it destroys.
§Mayne Reid, The Boy Hunters (1853).

p. 140
•a parody of the popular nineteenth-century Germa...