User blog comment:JCC the Alternate Historian/If the Entente Powers Won the Great War in Southern Victory/@comment-21519-20180720055813

As I recall, Flora Hamburger would have been Rosa Luxemborg, Irving Morrell would have been Erwin Rommel (that connection is obvious as soon as you look at the two names) and Gordon McSweeney would have been Hitler.

HT pretty quickly realized that he couldn't have the Rebs win the kind of war that would have led to a northern Weimar Republic analog, so he switched it. It really was a much better fit all around.