Fatherland Is Set In An Alternative World Where Hitler Has Won The Second World War. It Is April 1964 And One Week Before Hitlers 75th Birthday. Xavier March, A Detective Of The Kriminalpolizei, Is Called Out To Investigate The Discovery Of A Dead Body In A Lake Near Berlins Most Prestigious Suburb. As March Discovers The Identity Of The Body, He Uncovers Signs Of A Cons Fatherland Is Set In An Alternative World Where Hitler Has Won The Second World War. It Is April 1964 And One Week Before Hitlers 75th Birthday. Xavier March, A Detective Of The Kriminalpolizei, Is Called Out To Investigate The Discovery Of A Dead Body In A Lake Near Berlins Most Prestigious Suburb. As March Discovers The Identity Of The Body, He Uncovers Signs Of A Conspiracy That Could Go To The Very Top Of The German Reich. And, With The Gestapo Just One Step Behind, March, Together With An American Journalist, Is Caught Up In A Race To Discover And Reveal The Truth - A Truth That Has Already Killed, A Truth That Could Topple Governments, A Truth That Will Change History.