The book is written in a dystopian future when Nazis and the Empire of Japan are assumed to have defeated their foes. Alfred is a Briton working as a ground mechanic in Salisbury Aerodrome. He goes to Germany to visit the holy sites of Hitlerism. The sacred places consist of the sanctified aeroplane and holy forest, where it is said Hitler used the aeroplane to fly to Moscow and single-handedly won the war. In this area, Hitler is considered as a god. Hitlerism adherents preach about Hitler. Hitler is known to be a seven-foot giant with blue eyes and long blonde hair.
Nevertheless, Alfred comes across Friedrich von Hess, a knight who reveals to him that Hitler was a normal person. Von Hess narrates to Alfred how one person wrote a book and distorted the information to make people believe that Hitler was a god. Following his writings, the Nazis believed him and destroyed everything that contradicted his story. Eventually, Alfred is convinced that Hitler was a normal human being. In Hitler’s patriarchal world, women are perceived as mere incapable humans created only to give birth. Rape and sexual assault have been normalized.
The world presented in this book depicts a society where misogyny has been standardized. Women are perceived as airheads and disgusting. On the other hand, men are regarded as special humans. The author is trying to denounce the ideology of the Nazis when Hitler commanded a huge following. Hitler’s adherents were obsessed with his ideologies that they perceived him as a demigod.
