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I saw a book recently, one of Harry Turtledove's
alternate history novels, set in the 1930ies. The dust cover shows
(among other stuff) a flag design consisting of a red background with a
blue swastika edged and starred white.
I'm not familiar with Turtledove's "universe", but (even if it does
include an independent Confererate Sates of America, the real thing plus
most of Texas, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Sonora and Chihuahua),
I cant see any intimate connection between CSA and nazi Germany
(intimate enough to reach the flag, that is). AFAIK, in his alternate
timeline the CSA are a poor country and Germany is more or less allied
to the rump US (or not so rump, since it includes most english-speaking
Canada).
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin , 10 july 2002
I happen to have read these novels, and the cover illustration is
based on the flag of the CSA Freedom Party--which, in
Turtledove's universe, is a fascist movement that arises in the
CSA after the nation's defeat in an alternate WW I. (The CSA, the
UK and France fought the USA, Germany and Austria-Hungary.)
The Freedom Party flag is the Confederate Battle Flag with
colors reversed: blue field, white-bordered red saltire with white
stars. Turtledove notes, by the way, that the national flag of his
alternate CSA is the Stars and Bars.
Despite the cover illustration, there is no hint in the novels that
the swastika is actually an insignia of the Freedom Party.
Tom Gregg , 11 july 2002