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It is the mid-1960s – swinging, happening, mid-1960s Britain, except actually not really. You see, in the timeline we’re visiting World War II took a very different course when Hitler was ousted by a coup of career military officers, led by Rommel, in 1941. (In real life they didn’t act until 1941, by which point the war was well and truly lost anyway.) This didn’t stop the war, but it did change who was calling the shots. Two invasions of Britain were launched – one in 1942 which was driven back, another in 1943 which succeeded. By the late 1940s, Germany had strongarmed Britain and various other vassal states into supporting an all-out war on the Soviet Union. As part of this, the order was given for all British children under 13 years old to be evacuated to Germany, in essence to act as hostages to ensure England’s best behaviour – the idea being that with the kids in Germany, Britain could be counted on not to do anything rash, which meant the German occupational force could be…

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