Sep 10, 2025
Episode Out Now: Fatherland
What if the Reich had won the war? What if the streets of Berlin bustled with ordinary life while the truth of the Holocaust lay buried beneath decades of lies?
Robert Harris’s Fatherland is a detective noir set in an alternate 1964 where the past has been rewritten and the world looks away. Beneath the banality of everyday routines lies a darker story about secrecy, complicity, and the fragility of truth.
This week on Dystopedia we explore Harris’s chilling vision, why he chose to set it in the 60s, and what it reveals about how history gets remembered or erased.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
