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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
The idea that a colony of Nazis could be thriving in the Dream Lands would be frightening, though they would not be able to maintain a technology above TL4 unless the timeline was radically different, such as the Nazis discovering a stable portal to the Dream Lands in 1936 and having them invade the Dream Lands instead of starting WW II. In that scenario, the Nazis would have likely just banished undesirables from Germany, prevent anyone else from accessing the portal to the Dream Lands, and just have a nasty reputation for racism.
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Well, these Nazis didn't discover the Dreamlands, originally. In 1943, they discovered a way to travel a World Tree. And it was a secret SS project and became the survival plan of the inner SS leadership.
In 1945, when the Reich collapsed around them, the prepared survivors settled a fairly safe world without dangerous enemies. From the start, in 1943, they had had outposts in a number of less salubrious worlds, at least one where they had to combat the local fauna with chemical weapons, but the world they selected had a whole continent just ready for
Blut und Boden settlers to arrive.
As for not being able to maintain higher than TL4, that's a fairly complex subject. While TL is to a great extent economic and it's true that much of their early economy would be acricultural, that doesn't mean that a small group of technicians cannot maintain and resupply higher technology. To take a trivial example, one man can easily maintain a collection of firearms and even reload ammunition for them, with only tools that he might fit in his basement. Granted, he'll need propellant and bullets, but there's no pressing reason that a small factory that makes TL6/TL7 ammunition cannot be supported by a mostly acricultural economy, especially if raw materials can be gathered from other worlds.