History Characters / TNOGermany

* AllohistoricalAllusion: Most of his superweapon projects are based on real life Cold War-era projects. Herr Bombe, which involves making big nukes, is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba Tsar Bomba]]. The North Sea Monster hydrofoil/super-heavy aircraft project is based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster Caspian Sea Monster]] ground effect vehicle. Even the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelpanzer Kugelpanzer]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_gun Sun Gun]] have real life bases.
* AppealToForce: Goering uses brute force as his solution to every problem he's facing.
* BiggerIsBetter: When he's not developing weird wunderwaffe projects, most of his science tree focuses on simply making the existing weapons bigger. Bigger tanks, bigger nukes, bigger planes.
* BloodKnight: Göring believes that Germany should be at a constant state of war and strive for complete world hegemony.
* CultOfPersonality: As Führer, Göring establishes a Stalin-like cult of personality.
* FatBastard: Goering is still fat and mean, ruling Germany as a warmonger.
* FatIdiot: Pre-rework Göring knows how to oppress citizens and wage war, and that's about it. When it comes to science, he only cares about the parts of science that expand Germany's military prowess and crazy wunderwaffe that [[AwesomeButImpractical look cool and might not actually work]]. Even that doesn't come close to Göring's economy plans however, which is an ''absolute disaster'' of stupidity.
* KillSat: Göring's pet wunderwaffe project is the Sun Gun, a massive satellite system with high powered solar panels intended to burn enemies from space. Whether it works however is another question entirely.
* OperationBlank: His world conquest plan is organized through a long series of these.
* {{Ponzi}}: Göring's economic tree is effectively just him scamming everyone below him by rewriting laws and giving empty promises, taking everyone's money to supply his own needs. The system is so broken that the only reason the German economy doesn't instantly collapse under him is because he constantly invades and pillages other countries. Once his wars stop, his economy crashes too.
* ThePurge: After Göring wins the civil war, his first step of establishing full control of Germany is to purge all dissenters via the now-bloodthirsty military.
* RecoveredAddict: At some point, Göring managed to beat his morphine addiction and stabilize both his physical and mental state.

* TemptingFate: Some of the focuses in Göring's Germany have names like "Who Knew Economics Was So Easy?", showing that Göring is completely unaware of how bad his plans are and believing that they absolutely won't backfire horrifically.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Goering really likes his Sun Gun pet project, which is a solar-powered satellite weapon.
* TimeForPlanB: If things go very badly for Göring and his wars can't be quickly ended, he can apply Plan B in his economic focus tree, which weakens or outright removes economic variables he introduced before, thus creating giant holes in the economy for short-term gains. Such measures are taken in expectation that you can fill these gaps by looting foreign lands, and if you can't do it in a necessary time, the situation will become even worse.
* YouHaveFailedMe: If the German Civil War reaches the point of Anarchy and there is no victory in sight, the Wehrmacht generals will attempt to coup Göring for his failure and try to achieve victory in the war with even more brutal measures.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Aside from the ideological motive, Göring wages war on the entire world also because he can loot other countries and use it to "improve" the German economy.
* {{Warhawk}}: There is no diplomacy tree for Göring, only the war tree in three stages.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: When Göring can't resolve a problem, he sends troops and tanks on it. When he can't resolve a problem with troops and tanks, he throws off money for more troops and tanks until the problem is resolved.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Against Göring, for his "hesitation" to win the German Civil War.

[[folder:Speer's Germany]]
!''Speer's Germany''

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[[folder:Bormann's Germany]]
!''Bormann's Germany''

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[[folder:Göring's Germany]]

!''Göring's Germany''

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[[folder:Heydrich's Germany]]
!''Heydrich's Germany''

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[[folder:Regierung des Nationalen Wiederaufbaus]]
!''Regierung des Nationalen Wiederaufbaus''

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Much like in real life, Ulrike Meinhoff is a far-left radical who hopes to bring about a communist revolution. While attending college during the socially turbulent 1950's, she and her friends took a keen interest in Marxist-Leninist principles. Initially a supporter of Speer, the beginning of the anarchy spurs a clique of like-minded young communists led by her to turn against him. If the DSR successfully crushes all the other participants in the civil war, Meinhof finds herself as the general secretary of a massive, war-torn country. It's all downhill from there.

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* ChestOfMedals: As his conquests continue, the amount of medals on Göring's portrait increases.

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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Although Speer is the best candidate to lead the Reich, he's still an avowed fascist who made extensive use of slave labor to aid the Nazi war effort, just as he did in real life. In this continuity, he took it even further and helped to establish a codified slavery system for the entire Reich. It's unclear how much of his drive for reform is rooted in genuine remorse or a pragmatic desire to save the Reich from destruction. The popular perception of Speer as having been a "good nazi" is a highly dubious one, as the regret he expressed at his trial was likely a calculated ploy to avoid receiving the death sentence.

* OnlySaneMan: Between the status quo protector for Slavery, the military expansionist, and the batshit insane puppet of the Burgundian Regime, the focus tree of Speer actually gives Germany the best chance of victory in the Cold War, and is the candidate with the best chance of avoiding nuclear war.

Speer gathered a wide and varied range of supporters during the German Civil War, including liberals, reformists, and radical student activists. The far-left student radicals, initially the most ardent supporters of Speer, would find their relationship with Speer slowly sour, and eventually totally crumble as the war collapses into the hellish German Anarchy. Now considering Speer to be no different from the other Nazis they're fighting against, the students attempt to hijack his forces and institute their new, revolutionary leadership. They would proclaim the Deutsche Sozialistische Republik (German Socialist Republic), a new Germany where Nazism would be totally eradicated. From the fires of revolution, a red beast that would eradicate Nazism from the face of the earth was birthed.

The Deutsche Sozialistische Republik (German Socialist Republic) is a possible successor state to Nazi Germany in the event that radical communist students take control of Germany should the German Civil War go horribly wrong and collapse into anarchy. The DSR absolutely opposes Nazism and wishes to eradicate Nazism, but their rule of Germany is a highly dysfunctional one. Things go bad. Very, ''very'' bad.

* DarkHorseVictory: The DSR winning the German Civil War would require a perfect storm of many scenarios, some of which are extremely unlikely without careful player intervention. Some of the requirements are German Civil War dragging on into German Anarchy, the DSR-Speer conflict ending with DSR on top (there are many ways for the DSR to get absolutely crushed before they even appear, with one outcome being DSR spawning with ''two militia divisions'' against the dozens of fully equipped divisions owned by all other sides), and finally DSR somehow crushing all the other sides in the civil war.

* DystopiaIsHard: The DSR can only come to power after a long and grueling civil war has trashed the whole country, after which the

* CommieNazis: While the DSR are not explicitly National Bolsheviks or anything like that, some of their members have some... questionable views on various issues, which they inherited from being raised in the Hitler Youth and trained in the Wehrmacht. Some of them, for example, think that the slave system is perfectly acceptable in a Communist society.
* DarkHorseVictory: DSR winning the German Civil War would require a perfect storm of many scenarios, some of which are extremely unlikely without careful player intervention. Some of the requirements are German Civil War dragging on into German Anarchy, the DSR-Speer conflict ending with DSR on top (there are many ways for the DSR to get absolutely crushed before they even appear, with one outcome being DSR spawning with ''two militia divisions'' against the dozens of fully equipped divisions owned by all other sides), and finally DSR somehow crushing all the other sides in the civil war.

* FatIdiot: Goering knows how to oppress citizens and wage war, and that's about it. When it comes to science, he only cares about the parts of science that expand Germany's military prowess and crazy wunderwaffe that [[AwesomeButImpractical look cool and might not actually work]]. Even that doesn't come close to Goring's economy plans however, which is an ''absolute disaster'' of stupidity.
* KillSat: Goering's pet wunderwaffe project is the Sun Gun, a massive satellite system with high powered solar panels intended to burn enemies from space. Whether it works however is another question entirely.

* TemptingFate: Some of the focuses in Goering's Germany have names like "Who Knew Economics Was So Easy?", showing that Goering is completely unaware of how bad his plans are and believing that they absolutely won't backfire horrifically.

Ever since the Second World War, Field Marshal Schörner has always desired glory and power for himself, but always failed to make use of opportunities to obtain it, as it happened when he was outsmarted during the West Russian War by Speidel. preventing from taking control over the German war machine for his own purposes. Now, humiliated yet unbroken, Schörner has brought himself to Göring's camp, but he doesn't quite align with his leader and sees the future conflict as another opportunity for him to reach the heights he was always destined for.

Even since the Second World War, Field Marshal Schörner always desired glory and power for himself alone, but always failed to make use of opportunities to obtain it, as it happened when he was outsmarted during the West Russian War by Speidel and was prevented by him from taking control over the German war machine for his own purposes. Now, humiliated yet unbroken, Schörner brought himself to Göring's camp, but he doesn't quite align with his leader and sees the future conflict as another opportunity for him to reach the heights he was always destined for.

* InNameOnly: While they believe themselves to be ardent communists, they don't know much about Marxist theory and, aside from a few fragments of Communist literature that are spread on the black market, they learn about the ideology more from Nazi propaganda than Marx and Lenin.

After a series of stunning victories against France, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, Adolf Hitler's new order was to reign supreme for a thousand years. Instead, cruelty, arrogance, corruption and incompetent leadership has brought the reich to the brink of economic and military collapse in the 1950s. As the new decade turns, Germany's status as a dominant world power is threatened by an increasingly bloated military, a dysfunctional economy reliant on slave labor and a vast amount of enemies both external and internal. Now as the Führer's life draws to an end, ambitious men plot to take over the crumbling empire by any mean necessary.

* DystopiaIsHard: Systematic oppression has done nothing but cause trouble for the German society, and Germany is on the verge of collapse because of their actions.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Germany's desire to build the Atlantropa and reshape Europe completely destroyed them; their Mediterranean allies left the Axis, their own economy crashed due to the expenses spent on Atlantropa, which led to massively increased internal dissent that eventually culminates in the German Civil War.

* PyrrhicVictory: Germany ultimately won the West Russian War, but the war caused the Germany economy to further go down the gutter, caused a crisis in the SS that led to Himmler creating Burgundy and going rogue, and just overall greatly increased unrest within Germany. The war dealt such a massive damage that the German Civil War can be directly attributed to it.
* SuccessionCrisis: Even though Hitler will name a successor before his death, the faction division in the Nazi party has reached such an extent that a succession crisis immediately begins after Hitler dies, instantly collapsing Germany into a civil war.

The most influential man of the XX century and the architect of the Nazi empire, Adolf Hitler found peace in retirement, going away from petty politics and the toxic factionalism of the Reichstag, and started to act as a mere figurehead for the German government. Even in the face of disasters that have happened in the later days of the Nazi Empire, Hitler's image as a symbol to rally behind for the German people remained unbroken, but as Führer's health is falling, many people fear that Germany will be torn apart by rivaling factions in their desire for absolute power after his death. Germany silently awaits Hitler's decree of choosing his successor, but it is obvious that there are a lot of people in the Reich who won't agree with their leader's final decision...

A proud Wehrmacht general, Speidel first acquired his fame across Germany for his coup against the rebellious Eastern SS divisons during the West Russian War, an act which managed to prevent the Civil War between the Reich and the SS in the 50s. The rising star of the German military, Speidel has managed since then to secure the Wehrmacht from a militarist takeover by Schörner and achieve love from the population for his military valor, overshadowing his former master UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel. Speidel is not a man of politics and doesn't associate himself with factions that are thirsting for power in the Reich, fearing that military rule over Germany would bring the country to ruins, but there is no doubt that Speidel will make a stand for the interests of the German people, not party bureaucrats, in imminent political turmoil.

* EliteArmy: Even though Speidel's forces are relatively small, he has one of the most trained and disciplined soldiers Germany can offer and, unlike other contenders, his forces are fresh and undamaged by the prolonged war. Because of that, Speidel has the biggest chance of winning the Civil War if the Anarchy happens.

* PromotedToPlayable: You can't play as Speidel's Germania when it initially appears, but only if the German Civil War reaches the Anarchy and Speidel decides to intervene in the war by himself.
* ReluctantRuler: He doesn't want to see himself as the new ruler of Germany and agrees to become a civilian leader of Germany only if the Reichstag insists that he will stay in charge.

* AssassinOutclassin: Hitler's bodyguard manages to save the Führer's life during the assassination attempt, even though rumors of Hitler's death still spread across Germany, causing even more instability in the Reich.

* VetinariJobSecurity: The German Führer is the only thing that prevents Germany from tearing itself apart. As Hitler dies, the German (nominal) unity dies with him.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Hitler dies a year and four months after the start of the mod, leaving the declaration of a successor as the only considerable impact. And even in that case, many people in the Reich disagree with their leader's decision...

* OnlySaneMan: Between the status quo protector for Slavery, military expansionist or the batshit insane Burgundian Regime, the focus tree of Speer actually bring Germany back to the proper path. At least the international community would consider him as the only one can negotiate with.

* InsultBackfire: Most of what the DSR knows about socialism comes from Nazi anticommunist propaganda, which they eagerly use as the basis of their actions.

* PragmaticVillainy: Speer is still a fascist, but he's the only candidate who understands that National Socialism has failed and that the Reich is in desperate need of reform. His opposition to the worst excesses of the Nazi system is motivated by practical concerns as much as it is by moral conviction. Beyond being massively inhumane, the slave system and the concentration camp network are inefficient, expensive, and detrimental to the Reich's economic growth. He recolonizes that the corruption and cruelty that the Nazi economy is based on is also what's holding the country back.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Heydrich follows the Burgundian System of Himmler without a doubt and genuinely believes that Germany built on the Spartanist principles will stay forever. What he doesn't know, however, is that Himmler sees the Burgundian System not as much the desirable end but more as a mean to destroy the world.

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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Hitler's death allows to the German Civil War to happen, where the next Führer will be decided on the battlefield. This in turn sets of a chain reaction across the entire world, causing civil conflicts across Europe. After the end of the German Civil War, the future of the world is again shaped by the new leader of Germany. In essence, his death kicks of ''everything''.

* PragmaticVillainy: Speer is still a fascist, but he's the only candidate who recognizes that National Socialism has failed and that the Reich is in desperate need of reform. His opposition to the worst excesses of the Nazi system is motivated by practical concerns as much as it is by moral conviction. Beyond being massively inhumane, the slave system and the concentration camp network are inefficient, expensive, and detrimental to the Reich's economic growth. The corruption and cruelty that the Nazi economy is based on is also what's holding the country back.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Hitler's death allows to the German Civil War to happen, where the next Führer will be decided on the battlefield.