The Man in the High Castle (2015) (TV Show)

format_quote Joe Blake: (noticing ashes falling like snowflakes) What is that?
Nazi Police Officer: Oh, that's the hospital.
Joe Blake: The hospital?
Nazi Police Officer: Yeah, Tuesdays, they burn cripples, the terminally ill. Drag on the state.

stars  Although the goal of the resistance is to deliver the newsreels to an as-yet-unseen "man in the high castle" in the Neutral Zone, the title has an ironic twist: Hitler, who also seeks and collects the films, is shown to be living in a mountaintop fortress in Austria. Thus, Hitler could also be described as "the man in the high castle".

stars  The Paramount Theatre in the opening scene is from Seattle Washington not New York City.

stars  John Smith carries the rank of Obergruppenführer ("senior group leader"), while his superior Reinhard Heydrich has the similar-sounding rank of Oberst-Gruppenführer ("supreme group leader" or "colonel group leader"). During WWII, these were the two highest SS commissioned ranks, with Oberst-Gruppenführer reporting directly to the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler.

stars  Showrunner Frank Spotnitz has said that he has a plan in mind for the series, and knows how it will end. Before writing the season one ending, he got confirmation from Amazon for a second season, so that the show wouldn't end on a cliffhanger if it wasn't going to be renewed. Among the elements that he has promised for the second season is the revelation of what happened to the African-Americans.

stars  Hohenwerfen Castle, in Austria, was used for the Führerhauptquartier (Führer Headquarters), Hitler's personal castle and command center. The castle had previously been used as a Nazi stronghold in Where Eagles Dare (1968).