Juliana discovers the package contains impossible footage of the Allies winning World War II. In Japan-occupied San Francisco, Juliana Crain receives a package from her sister Trudy, only to later see her shot by the Japanese police. In 1962 Nazi-occupied New York, Joe Blake volunteers to serve the resistance by driving a truck to the Neutral Zone in the Rockies. In 1962 Nazi-occupied New York, Joe Blake volunteers to serve the resistance by driving a truck to the Neutral Zone in the. She revealed to Tagomi that her husband was dead and had been declared a traitor by the state, much to the latter's sorrow.S1:E1 The New World The Man in the High Castle 12:00 am EST Wegener's wife, answering the phone, became highly emotional at the mention of her husband. Tagomi later contacted Wegener's residence in Berlin to inquire about his whereabouts. While Hitler received news of Heydrich's capture at the hands of John Smith over telephone, Wegener shot himself in the head. Hitler gave him the choice to commit suicide in exchange for extending protection to Wegener's family. Hitler knew too well that Wegener was sick of killing and that his death would result in bringing to power the same people who want to wage war against the Japanese Empire, which would mean that Wegener's actions would cause millions of deaths. Heydrich planned to use Wegener as a tool in his planned coup d'etat against Adolf Hitler, threatening Wegener's family if he did not agree to act as the assassin. Reluctantly, Wegener agreed to the ultimatum, and returned to Berlin to give his family one last farewell before traveling to meet Hitler.įace-to-face with the Führer at his mountaintop residence, Hitler revealed to Wegener's horror that he already knew of Heydrich's plans, and that he was not scared at all of Wegener. However, to Wegeners' surprise, the SS did not torture him but, instead let him meet Reinhard Heydrich. After the celebration and apparent catching up, Smith revealed his plan by handing Wegener over to the SS. Subsequently, during a stopover in New York City on his return flight to Berlin, Wegener was deceived by John Smith, who invited him to a party celebrating VA Day with Smith's family and Joe Blake. Having gone ahead with the plan, Wegener's presence did become known to a Nazi intelligence officer present. Despite this, Tagomi and Wegener had a stroke of luck when they found out that the Science Minister had an appointment in the hall of the same hotel where Wegener was staying the opportunity would nonetheless run the risk of Wegener being recognized. However, their plans were jeopardized by the assassination attempt on the Crown Prince, which made further attempts to complete the mission too risky in Tagomi's view.
Wegener knew he would likely face reprisal by the Nazis authority once his goal was completed, including execution.ĭuring the course of the series, in Tagomi's and Wegener's original plan, Wegener, posing as a Swedish businessmen, would have met the Director of Japanese Scientific Research and given to him a microfilm which contain the indispensable information to build the Heisenberg Device (that Wegener previously managed to steal from his Nazi work office) during Crown Prince Akihito's speech at San Francisco. In trying to atone for his sins, Wegener decided to help Tagomi in his plan to allow the Japanese Empire to develop its own nuclear program to use as a final deterrent against a potential pre-emptive nuclear strike by the Greater Nazi Reich. Wegener, in particular, became disgusted of the radical totalitarian transformation that the Nazi party did in Germany and in the rest of the Reich, especially in Berlin. However, the psychological toll of the atrocities that Wegener took part in eventually disillusioned him from the Nazi ideology and made him ashamed of his role in the Nazis' victory.
In America, he forged a friendship with local American Nazi collaborator John Smith, who later on would become an Obergruppenführer in the American branch of the SS. It is unclear what Wegener's exact role was, although he may have taken part in the "cleaning operations" (genocide) in the territories occupied by the Nazis during the war. Apparently, Wegener originally believed in the Nazis' ideology and actively participated in the Nazi war effort during World War II. Not much is known of Wegener's life before joining the Nazi Party, except that he was born in Berlin before the Nazis "remodeled" the entire capital.