Wells ' posterity remembers Fascism more as a ridiculous and stupid movement than as a horrible one . In the war envisioned in the book , an enfeebled Nazi Germany got bogged down in its war with Poland , never achieved vast conquests nor engaged in a systematic murder of Jews , and finally collapsed and disintegrated ( no mention is made of Hitler 's ultimate fate , and the historian of 2106 clearly considers it unimportant )
a systematic murder of Jews
The Holocaust
The Shape of Things to Come