Rutger Hauer in a fantastic story

I thought this movie was excellent. The story was really interesting and kind of a "What If" movie as in "What if Germany had won WWII". Rutger Hauer is excellent as the lead character and SS police officer who is investigating a murder in Germania the country that exist now that Germany has defeated Europe in WWII. Joe Kennedy is the president of the United States and their is going to be a summit to end this "cold war". Eager to make peace with the U.S. because of the horrible on going war in on the Russian front, Germany is trying to tie up some embarassing loose ends involving the unkown Holocaust that has been going on against the Jews.

This movie is just an intriquing and clever story with fine acting especially by Rutger Hauer who has only been better in Blade Runner but this is on par with that.

What novel is this based on?

Whatever novel this is based on, it sure isn't Robert Harris's. I finished reading the novel minutes before popping in the movie and was surprised to see that the whole thing was rewritten. Hardly a sub-plot remains.

On the whole it's a decent movie, though it shows its made for TV roots and the ending is laughable.

What happened with the story of the book?

The introduction was excellent: images of a shamefull Eisenhower who felt responsible for not winning the war. Churchill sent in excile to Canada, King Edward en Queen Wallis, Speer's realised buildings in the Reich. The makers used authentical images to create this alternative history and they succeed: it was very convincing.
For the first 30 minutes, the story was allright. The pictures of Nazi-Berlin in the sixties were impressing. But then everything went wrong. There was nothing left of the subtile and tragic plot of the book. I hardly believed my eyes and wondered what Robert Harris himself would think about the rape of his story. What drove the scenariowriters to turn an brilliant story in XXXX like this...?