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== Live Action TV ==

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' in the episode ''The City On The Edge of Forever''. Dr. McCoy saves the life of a woman who goes on to start a mass peace movement before [[WW 2]], thus delaying America's entry into the war long enough for the Nazis to build an atomic bomb. Result: man never goes into space. Also according to this episode, this woman's death changed the alignment of the flipping ''stars''.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' in the episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S1/E28 The City on the Edge of Forever|The City on the Edge of Forever]]". Dr. McCoy saves the life of a woman who goes on to start a mass peace movement before [[WW 2]], thus delaying America's entry into the war long enough for the Nazis to build an atomic bomb. Result: man never goes into space. Also according to this episode, this woman's death changed the alignment of the flipping ''stars''.

** Interestingly, the Nazi victory doesn't last long. According to the original script and the subsequent [[Novelization]], the Nazi regime collapsed shortly after.

* Spike.TV produced a tv special called ''Alternate History'', talking about Nazi America in a realistic light and how it could have happened. It shows that Hitler could have made certain decisions or invented certain technologies [like nuclear weapons] that would have defeated the USA. The USA, now Nazi America, is similar to USA of today except under ~~totaltarian~~ rule and all non-white Americans are slaves or racially targeted to the point that many Americans ironically want to move to Mexico [instead of today where its vise versa]. The lack of liberty and large non-white populations of America causes a civil war where [ironically] the American people become terrorists against the government.

* Spike.TV produced a TV special called ''Alternate History'', talking about Nazi America in a realistic light and how it could have happened. It shows that Hitler could have made certain decisions or invented certain technologies [like nuclear weapons] that would have defeated the USA. The USA, now Nazi America, is similar to USA of today except under totalitarian rule and all non-white Americans are slaves or racially targeted to the point that many Americans ironically want to move to Mexico [instead of today where its vise versa]. The lack of liberty and large non-white populations of America causes a civil war where [ironically] the American people become terrorists against the government.

* This trope was also used in one of the early arcs in ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.

* This happened in the first episode of ''[[Time Cop]]'' the TV series, complete with the hero going back in time to prevent the Nazi Future by stopping the Nazis from getting the atomic bomb.

* In the 1980 series ''Darkroom'', a man finds that he can send ~~morse~~-code messages to a ship during WWII. He tries to give the United States an edge by telling them information from history~~-books—and~~ the next day he opens the door to see a Nazi-parade, since Hitler had won and the Nazis now ruled the world.

* In the 1980 series ''[[Darkroom]]'', a man finds that he can send Morse-code messages to a ship during [[WWII]]. He tries to give the United States an edge by telling them information from history books — and the next day he opens the door to see a Nazi-parade, since Hitler had won and the Nazis now ruled the world.

* Parodied by ''[[The Whitest Kids U' Know]]''. Apparently, just resetting your internet history is enough for Nazi zeppelins and Nazi dinosaurs with laser eyes to appear.

* One [[Saturday Night Live]] skit features George Foreman accidentally traveling back in time, where he's challenged to a boxing match by Hitler. Foreman of course wins, becomes the new Furher, and then conquers the United States.

* One ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' skit features George Foreman accidentally traveling back in time, where he's challenged to a boxing match by Hitler. Foreman of course wins, becomes the new Furher, and then conquers the United States.

== Radio ==