The ending of episode 10.

Why.

It makes no sense considering that there's a season 2?

Unless I'm way off the mark here, the whole show is a splinter from reality. Where one single decision changes the course of history to create an alternate timeline. That happened at some point before or during WWII and we are watching the following events. The films show multiple divergent possibilities in the timeline. Except the 'truth' of history is the Axis powers lost the war and slowly but surely the truth is finding a way to correct history. At the end the Trade Minister both metaphorically and literally 'wakes up' to see the truth before him, although probably only for a brief moment.

And it seemed to me that because virtually every character parallels with another at least once in the show, that it's most likely that Hitler is one of 2 literal men in high castles rather than the sole one.

As I said I may be barking up completely the wrong tree but that's how it seemed to me.

Just finished and I've got to say I loved this season. With you there Severin, the ending does leave a little to be desired but it doesn't matter too much since it's not really an ending and presumably will pick up directly from where it left when season 3 starts.

I love how the series humanises Nazis like the Smith family (especially the Obergruppenfuhrer), despite the occasional horrific reminder of the brutal nature of the the regime they serve under (Thomas' condition and attitudes towards it being an obvious example), what I do find hard to understand however is how seemingly so much of the US population seems to accept things the way they are (of course a lot of people would be afraid of criticising the Nazis and rightly so but there's definitely a significant proportion that do believe in Nazi ideals and although there is a widespread resistance they're not the majority). I get how the younger generation's been indoctrinated but there are a lot of people still around old enough to remember pre-war America, particularly Helen and John Smith who fought on the side of the US in the war, sure maybe they didn't have much choice but they're loyal Nazis now, maybe it was just easier for them to fool themselves into accepting the regime since there was nothing they could do about it then they slowly came to believe in its values themselves. I'd be really interested to find out more about how John Smith became an Obergruppenfuhrer, especially now after seeing that brief 1945 flashback.