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[[File:washington nazis.jpg|link=Turning Point Fall Of Liberty|thumb|400px|Dammit! I knew I shouldn't have left that tap running back in 1932.]]
{{quote|'''As the amount of time-traveling you do increases, the probability of Hitler winning World War II approaches one.'''}}
You return home from your jolly time travel adventure in ancient Greece, having saved the world and being careful not to upset history and.. hold on a moment? Are those ''swastikas?!'' Hanging from the ''White House?!'' Looks like you've been hit by Godwin's Law of Time Travel.
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When the time traveler ''deliberately'' tries to avoid Nazi victory and inevitably fails, it's [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]].
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== Comic Books ==
* Before ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'', [[DC Comics]]'s Earth-X was an alternate earth where the Nazis won.
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** 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.
* 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.
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