Christians in the United States sometimes talk in rather exaggerated terms of being “persecuted.” What would life be like for us if we actually lived in a totalitarian state without basic civil rights? The Man in the High Castle , an alternative history series on Amazon, gives us some ideas. The series is loosely based Philip K. Dick's classic award-winning novel. In adapting the story for television, creator Frank Spotniz has taken great liberties with the original source. Spotniz, who was associated with The X Files , freely exercises some of the political and social satire of the former series in showing a United States of America in 1960 where the Allies lost World War Two. In this version of history, the United States has been divided into three parts: the Japanese Pacific States in the west, the Greater Nazi Reich in the east and the Rocky Mountain States (or the Neutral Zone ) in the middle. Hitler is still alive,...
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