The Afrika Reich
| Author | Guy Saville |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller, alternative history novel |
| Publisher | Hodder & Staughton |
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Publication date
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17 February 2011 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 448 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardback) |
The Afrika Reich is a 2011 alternate history action thriller novel by Guy Saville. In this world, the point of divergence occurs when the United Kingdom is defeated by Nazi Germany during the Dunkirk campaign in 1940, forcing Britain to conclude a non-aggression pact with Germany. Due to the influence of an active Colonial Policy Office (KPA), the Nazis carve up a new colonial empire in Afrika, extending their racial genocide to Black Africans. By 1952, Britain and Germany have divided up much of the continent between themselves.
The story is based around the British mercenary Burton Cole who has been dispatched on a secret mission by the British government to assassinate Walter Hochburg, the Nazi Governor General of Kongo. This plot occurs against the backdrop of increasing tensions between Britain and Germany which threatens to disrupt the uneasy truce made in 1940.
In September 1952 Burton, posing as an SS surveyor, enters Schadelplatz (named for its plaza of skulls, which Hochburg says is made of "twenty thousand nigger skulls" and can accommodate panzers) and gains access to Hochburg's office, having taken the mission at the behest of Ackerman (a representative of Lusaka Mining Corporation) because of his vendetta with Hochburg. Assassinating Hochburg and escaping with the aid of Patrick, an American from the defunct French Foreign Legion, Cole is able to escape the Schadelplatz and meet with his team in a Central African Airlines plane from Rhodesia.
However, they are soon spotted and shot down by SS troops (who took over responsibility for German Africa from the Afrika Korps in the mid-1940s), and Burton and Patrick flee for German Aquatoriana, to reach British Nigeria.
In a subplot, Neliah, a Herero living in Portuguese North Angola (Angola south of the Benguela Railway 'appropriated' by the Reich in 1949 for imposing heavy taxation on black marble used in Albert Speer's architectural designs to the fury of Germany) with her sister, Zuri, and members of the Portuguese (white) insurgency (Resistencia), is sent on a trek to Loanda in the face of a German invasion and, more personally, the potential for deportation to Deutsch Westafrika, colloquially known as "Muspel", to which all African blacks in German territory have been deported as part of Nazi racial purification policy.
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