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Originally Posted by Culture20
Marvel’s Thunderbolts #156 and #157 (2011, Luke Cage, Heroic Era) has a WWI German castle which has just returned from a magical tour of the multiverse, populated with nastiness. Baron Gothenvald isn’t a Nazi, but almost all of the concepts would translate well, especially the loss of humanity.
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Yes, it would make sense that a lot of comics had what amounted to Antarctic Space Nazis with occult powers traveling the multiverse. That is, after all, the sort of thing that happens in comics.
The Last Redoubt of the Antarctic Space Nazis is, indeed, some sort of a fantasy analogue/correspondence of
Wevelsburg castle,
Zentrum der neuen Welt, and the SS settlers and homesteaders live in the castle and in farms and villages around it.
There is some light industry there, but the massive coal power plants of the early days were mostly concentrated in yet another world, where there were massive and easily accessible deposits of both coals and petrochemicals, as well as iron and other minerals. It's there that much of the slave labour would have been concentrated and in that world, pollution from coal plants would have been less of a concern.
Once the Antarctic Space Nazis develop nuclear reactors, they can maybe move the center of their energy generation efforts to the
Zentrum der neuen Welt, but while they were relying on coal, there was a deliberate decision to keep the environs of the castle as clean and attractive as possible.
Even in terms of slaves, only those selected to become favoured second class citizens because of perceived Aryan blood would have been allowed near the castle, with lesser slaves (and those subjected to unspeakable rituals to make them
Kadavergehorsam) concentrated around the industrial sites in the resource-rich world (or worlds, with them setting up several industrial centers near resources they need in worlds they start to conquer), or, for those employed in agriculture, used on vast industrial farms located at some distance from the idyllic landscape around the castle.
Ironically, I imagine that travel over the World Tree would, in many cases, be easier than mundane travel over long distances within a world. On the other hand, laying roads or tracks there would be right out, but zeppelins that could fit through the gates might travel between the worlds with finished goods from the industrial outposts to the home world (and food from the home world to the industrial outposts, though most of the population at those dismal places would have been beyond food).