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There was some discussion on the board a few days ago about a wartime "Brown Scare" and the 1944 sedition trial.

I don't think anybody is saying there was, although the Communists were not particularly supportive (and in some cases outright sabotaged) the Western Allies during the Nazi-Soviet Pact period...

The Communist insurgency in Malaysia was crushed in part because it was limited only to the Chinese community, a minority in the country and not to my knowledge a popular one. A black insurgency in the South is a lot more crushable than the KKK was, and the First Klan *did* get crushed.

Depending on when you start the Civil Rights Movement, there were some Black Muslims who were sympathetic to the Empire of Japan in WWII. http://www.umass.edu/afroam/downloads/allen.tak.pdf I doubt they'd get beyond sedition, espionage, and sabotage though.

There were a couple incidents OTL, like some blacks using rifles they got from the NRA to chase off some Klansmen and that time the Lumby Indians broke up a Klan rally and then did a straight-up war dance with captured Klan gear. Both of these were in North Carolina, with the latter leading to...

http://www.umass.edu/afroam/downloads/allen.tak.pdf Here's the article I mentioned about the Black Muslims. If they'd gotten a bit more proactive other than refusing to serve in the military, trying to persuade others to serve, and generally complaining, I could easily imagine espionage or...

I don't think the Second Klan would necessarily be a pro-Axis 5th column. They repeatedly emphasized how American they were. Something like the Bund would be a different story, as they were explicitly Nazi. As far as the pro-Japanese black underground is concerned, I posted a historical journal...

Lest Darkness Fall is another time-travel novel, but since the protagonist is trying to change history for the better, we start seeing macro-effects. It's pretty cool too.

SM Stirling's The Peshawar Lancers and the Draka novels are fun, even though TPL has some fantasy elements (precognitives) and the Draka AH really isn't that plausible. The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove is more of a time-travel novel than true AH, but it's cool too.

For real? I thought his issue was that he got shot down in shark-infested waters, not that some Japanese soldier tried to EAT him.

I think the idea is that most of the Germans wouldn't know they're actually eating murdered Jews and the like. According to some material I've read, the "1968 generation" of Germans was so radical because their parents (the WWII generation) refused to discuss or face up to what they'd been...

To elaborate on my earlier comment, here's Operation Tempest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tempest Note that on at least two occasions the Home Army and Red Army cooperated against the Germans--and then the Soviets betrayed them. The Soviets assisting the Warsaw Uprising...

I think that's what happened to other Home Army units in Poland during Operation Tempest.

They could always not actively interfere with attempts to support said uprising by the Western Allies (like preventing flights from that US airbase in the USSR), bad-mouthing the Home Army regularly, and betraying and killing Home Army units elsewhere in Poland. Given the rest of the...

I think there was some big Hindu-Muslim riot that according to this one book (I think it was Midnight's Descendants) made Partition inevitable. Avoid this riot, or have it stopped in some way that defuses sectarianism (a bunch of Hindu and Muslim holy men forming a human chain to separate...

Given how he asked for permission to withdraw uncontested to support the Home Army against the SS, that would be extremely improbable. I would imagine if the Allies intact he would conduct a fighting withdrawal as best he could and then support the Home Army against the SS.

Was there a significant Austrian resistance movement IRL? IIRC Austria's national identity seems to be a post-1945 political creation, although "Austrofascism" existed before that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Resistance I don't think there'll much resistance activity in Vienna...

The above post betrays a certain lack of knowledge of logistics. Actually getting troops and large amounts of gear there is going to be difficult. The Germans sent some planes (via Vichy Syria) to help Rashid Ali in Iraq, but it wasn't enough. They flew in and had to fly out again pretty...

Ah. That's a tricky part. There is a story out there (maybe even on this board?) where Jackie gets hit instead and we end up with First Lady Marilyn Monroe. :D

On paper no doubt absolutely enormous. But there is the small matter of using these resources competently and the fact that Hitler and Stalin aren't going to trust each other very much and none of them are going to respect Mussolini one bit. (In HBO's Rome there's a scene where Octavian and...