History Characters / TNOGermany

!![[center: [- [[Characters/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Main Character Index]] -]]][[center: [- '''Superpowers:''' '''Großgermanisches Reich''' ([[Characters/TNOSpeer Speer's Germany]] | [[Characters/TNOBormann Bormann's Germany]] | [[Characters/TNOHeydrich Heydrich's Germany]]) | [[Characters/{{TNOUSA}} The United States of America]] ([[Characters/TNOSixtiesUSAPresidents 1964-1968 American Presidents]] | [[Characters/TNO1972USAPresidents 1972 American Presidents]]) | [[Characters/TNOJapan Dai-Nippon Teikoku]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Major Powers:''' [[Characters/TNOItaly Regno d'Italia]] | [[Characters/TNOIberianUnion Iberian Union]] | [[Characters/TNOTurkey Republic of Turkey]] | [[Characters/TNOBurgundy Ordensstaat Burgund]]-]]] [[center: [-'''Other Countries By Region:'''-]]] [[center: [- '''Africa:''' [[Characters/TNOAfrica Northern & East Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOWestAfrica West Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthernAfrica Southern Africa]] | [[Characters/TNOPostColonialCentralAfrica Post-Colonial Central Africa]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Asia:''' [[Characters/TNOAsia Mainland China & Oceania]] ([[Characters/TNOGuangdong State of Guangdong]] | [[Characters/TNOSixtiesGuangdongChiefExecutives 1964-1972 Guangdong Chief Executives]] | [[Characters/TNOGuangdongFlavorCharacters Guangdong Flavor Characters]]) | [[Characters/TNOSoutheastAsia Southeast Asia]] ([[Characters/TNOIndonesia Republic of Indonesia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthAsia South Asia]] | [[Characters/TNOMiddleEast Middle East]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralAsia Central Asia]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Europe:''' [[Characters/TNOEurope Northern & Western Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOBritain British Isles]] | [[Characters/TNOFrance French State]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernEurope Southern Europe]] | [[Characters/TNOEasternEurope Eastern Europe]] ([[Characters/TNOUkraine Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] | [[Characters/TNOMoskowien Reichskommissariat Moskowien]])-]]] [[center: [- '''Americas:''' [[Characters/TNOAmerica North America]] | [[Characters/TNOSouthAmerica South America]] ([[Characters/TNOBrazil United States of Brazil]] | [[Characters/TNOArgentina Argentine Republic]] | [[Characters/TNOUruguay Oriental Republic of Uruguay]])-]]] [[center: [- '''The Russian Anarchy:''' [[Characters/TNORussia West Russia]] ([[Characters/{{TNOWRRF}} West Russian Revolutionary Front]] | [[Characters/TNOKomi Komi Republic]] | [[Characters/TNOKomiCommunist Communist Party of Komi]] | [[Characters/TNOKomiPassionariyy Passionariyy Organization]] | [[Characters/TNOTaboritsky Taboritsky's Russia]]) | [[Characters/TNOSouthernUrals Southern Urals]] | [[Characters/TNOWesternSiberia Western Siberia]] | [[Characters/TNOCentralSiberia Central Siberia]] ([[Characters/TNOSiberianBlackArmy Siberian Black Army]]) | [[Characters/TNOFarEast The Far East]] ([[Characters/TNOHarbinThree Harbin Three]]) | [[Characters/TNOAfterMidnight After Midnight]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Miscellaneous:''' [[Characters/TNOAntarctica Antarctica]] | [[Characters/TNOMisc Miscellaneous Content]] | [[Characters/TNONonCanon Non-Canon Content]]]]-]

->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Reform Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Reformed National Socialism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

For his tropes, see the [[Characters/TNOSpeer Speer's Germany page]].
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[[folder:Martin Bormann]]
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->'''Role:''' Parteiminister[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Hitler cabinet), Head of State (German Civil War victor)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Konservativ Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party - Conservative Faction[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialist Orthodoxy[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

For his tropes, see the [[Characters/TNOBormann Bormann's Germany page]].
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[[folder:Hermann Göring]]
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->'''Role:''' Reichsmarshall[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Hitler cabinet), Head of State (German Civil War victor)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Militarist Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Stratocratic Nazism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Göring once made a public challenge that if any Allied bomber dare reach the Reich that forever after he would be known as Hermann Meier. The success of Nazism in the World War proved his bluff wise, and Göring was soon sure to cut himself a piece of the great pie the victors greedily dove into once the Allies lie destroyed.\\\
Using a mix of a somewhat political able mind and several excessive uses of blunt force, namely in the deployment of thugs, militias and 'patriots' to harass and drive off any threats to his power, Göring has centered himself as the sole politician in the Reich who truly listens to the pleas of the soldiery. Seeing no other way to power, he has surrounded himself by uniformed sycophants who have convinced the aging Führer that the only way for the Reich to prosperity would be through the utter destruction of its enemies.\\\
Now, Göring goose-steps arm and arm on what many consider a rapid road to the destruction of the Reich. That is assuming he is soon stopped however, for one can only imagine what may happen once Göring sets his sights overseas...[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Hitler cabinet) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]If Adolf Hitler is the undisputed father of the German Reich, Hermann Göring is its beloved uncle. Born in 1893 to Heinrich Ernst Göring, the former governor of Südwestafrika. An early follower of the Führer, Göring has been by Hitler's side since the early days of the Nazi Party in the 1920s. He was a prominent member in the abortive Munich Putsch of 1923 and prominent party leader. His loyalty has not gone unrecognized or unrewarded. Once the Nazi Party took power in 1933 he was made Minister-President of Prussia and President of the Reichstag, both positions he held until the 1950s. After his Luftwaffe aided in the stunning victory over France, Hitler bestowed Göring with the title of Reichsmarschall as a symbol of his authority, at least in theory, over the Wehrmacht - second only to Hitler's.\\\
Following the Reich's victory in the Second World War, Reichsmarschall Göring's power seemed more secure than ever, but events quickly transpired to diminish his station. His choice to resign several key positions, including his Reichstag presidency, in protest of the attempted SS coup may have been an act of loyalty to Hitler, but it left him out in the cold when the reformist wing of the NSDAP began to make major pushes in the assembly. In the years since Göring has come to rely more and more on the militarist officers of the Wehrmacht for his base of support, a mutual partnership in which he supplies them political capital in return for the backing of their arms.[[/labelnote]]

The former Minister of Aviation, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring has become the public face of a large group of hardline militarists from both the military and the Nazi old guard, united by their beliefs that Germany can return to glory by launching a new series of military adventures around the world. Göring initially attached himself to the hardliners in an attempt to bolster his own power, but has found himself becoming their puppet instead. As the militarists grow in power and embolden by the day, Göring finds himself in increasingly deep waters.

* AffablyEvil: For a Nazi, he's pretty polite and conversational, exchanging pleasantries with those he casually visits, like King Edward.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: If Heydrich defeats and arrests Göring, he kills himself with a cyanide pill smuggled into his cell before Heydrich could execute him, exactly like what the real Göring did after being sentenced to death in the Nuremberg Trials.
* AppealToForce: Göring uses brute force as his solution to every problem he's facing.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Göring soon comes to find that being the top man in the Reich, which he has strove to achieve since Hitler came to power, is not all that it's cracked up to be, when he is effectively a puppet of his militarist underlings, and could barely restrain the most hardline among them, if at all.
* BeneathTheMask: Despite nominally heading the Reich's militarists, Göring deep down has more in common with Albert Speer and his reformist plans than anything else. Yet while he personally disagrees with, if not outright resents the viewpoints promoted by the likes of Schörner, he keeps those thoughts to himself. Not that it stops him from trying to discreetly thwart them wherever he could.
* DealWithTheDevil: Despite not personally agreeing with many of their viewpoints, Göring attached himself to the militarists because they were the last faction in the Reich who needed a public face in the NSDAP (the reformists, conservatives and SS already had Speer, Bormann and Heydrich). However, in doing so, he has become so reliant on his support base that he is now little more than the militarists' puppet.
* DefectorFromDecadence: He attempts to be this when he sends a letter to Speer or Bormann (depending on who Hitler chose as his successor), offering to join their side and separate himself from the militarists, knowing that their warmongering plans are suicidal. However, both of them will reject the offer and the letter gets leaked to Schörner, who's absolutely livid over this "betrayal". Fortunately for Göring, he lies that his conservative supporters sent the letter without his knowledge and Schörner buys it.
* EvilOldFolks: Having been born in 1893, Göring is 69 at game start and by far the oldest contender in the German Civil War.
* EvilReactionary: While Speer is reform-minded and Bormann wants to maintain the status quo, Göring advocates for active regression. He desires a return to the good old days of the Second World War when the Reich was a rising military power. He believes that renewed military adventures will combat the scourges of complacency and modernity...or so is the public perception, when in fact he is only lumped in with true believers in these stances such as Schörner because Speer rejected his attempts at becoming part of the reformist camp.
* FatBastard: Göring is still fat and a Nazi, ruling Germany as a warmonger. That being said, time and weaning away from drugs have made him slimmer and leaner than in real life.
* {{Foil}}: To Albert Speer. Like him, Göring isn't blind to the flaws of Orthodox National Socialism, considers himself a "reformer", and originally aimed to sway the support of the Gang of Four before siding with the militarists. [[spoiler:Unlike Speer, who can assert control over and thwart the Gang of Four, Göring is just barely able to impose power over the militarists to begin with and despite his growing resentment, simply lacks the clout and drive to change his predicament.]]
* InternalReformist: At least in spirit. Göring is actually a driven reformist who went so far as to try and become the fifth member of the Gang of Four. He failed, however, as his stature in the Wehrmacht as Reichsmarschall led to his exploitation by the militarists and he is inexorably entangled with Schörner, a fact he deeply resents.
* IveComeTooFar: By 1962, Göring finds himself too involved with the militarists to walk away. With each successive conquest, it only reinforces to him that, despites his misgivings, he has no choice ''but'' to keep going along with their plans, lest he get deposed. That doesn't stop him from trying to discreetly thwart them or jostle for power, however.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Surrounded by both hardline militarists and disgruntled critics like Speidel, Göring has no one to really turn to in order to truly assert his power. Instead, he makes do with working behind their backs, wherever he could.
* NaziNobleman: While Göring isn't part of the nobility, he nonetheless acts as though he'd been raised as such. This is not unlike how he conducted himself real life.
* PetTheDog: Göring fondly remembers his friend, Erich Schumann, down in Neuschwabenland, sending him a congratulatory letter on his nuclear tests and some chocolate to snack on.
* PuppetKing: Göring is effectively a puppet of the militarist faction headed by Ferdinand Schörner. Göring himself is personally a fascist reformist, second only to Speer himself. He is mainly concerned with maintaining his personal power, and so actively wants to reform Germany into Speer’s sustainable fascism (minus any reforms that involve him losing authority). But with the reformists rallying around Speer, and Speer refusing to let him join the Gang of Four as its fifth member - Göring saw no path to power. He was forced to be the figurehead for the militarists instead - the one faction looking for a replacement “leader” after Goebbels' untimely death.
* RecoveredAddict: At some point, Göring managed to beat his morphine addiction and stabilize both his physical and mental state.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If Göring loses the German Civil War to anyone other than Heydrich, he escapes to Reichskommissariat Zentralafrika alongside a small band of loyalists, only to die of malaria soon after his arrival.
* SmarterThanYouLook: While he seems to be a PuppetKing under the militarists, Göring intends to build a clique of technocrats and scientists to mold the Reich to his ambitious vision, using his connections with Schumann to do so and implying that he wants to cut loose with his militarist masters.
* VillainousLegacy: If Speer wins the Civil War, Tresckow will have to face the problem of dealing with Göring's warmongering and corrupt legacy in the Luftwaffe, which will either need to be limited or excised completely.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Beneath the surface, Göring becomes progressively more disdainful of the militarists and their plans, viewing himself instead as being more in line with Albert Speer. For the most part however, he keeps such thoughts to himself.

[[folder:Reinhard Heydrich]]

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->'''Role:''' Head of State (German Civil War victor)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - SS Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Spartanism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

The brutal and fanatical Reichsführer of the German SS, Reinhard Heydrich is utterly loyal to Heinrich Himmler and desires to totally reshape Germany into a Spartanist state. For his tropes, see his [[Characters/TNOHeydrich dedicated subpage]]. '''Unmarked Spoilers Ahead!'''

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!!''Oberkommando der Wehrmacht''

[[folder:Hans Speidel]]
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Head of State (Schutzzone Germania, [[spoiler:SS Civil War]])
->'''Party:''' Oberkommando der Wehrmacht[[note]]Armed Forces High Command[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Long has Speidel served proudly in the Wehrmacht and long has the nation been proud to host him. First rising to fame after narrowly staving off a Civil War in the 50s thanks to his quick coup against the SS in the east during the heights of the West Russian War, where he was awarded the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds for gallantry in battle. A rising star, he further rode off the popularity of his old leader and personal friend, Rommel and became one of the most beloved figures in Germany. Later Speidel challenged the Reich's many militarists, namely Ferdinand Schörner, sabotaging Schörner's career and for the second time in Speidel's life preventing a coup in the Reich when he prevented Schörner from taking control of the Wehrmacht for his own gains.\\\
Still, Speidel is not a politician and feels strongly against the increasing ties between the Wehrmacht and the government. Fearing military control of the Reich would destroy it, he has refused all attempts to bribe and cajole him into one of the various factions in the Reich and continues to state that as a soldier his duty will always be to the people. While noble, this means that Speidel is a small island in a swirling sea, and every day the tide comes ever higher.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography (General)''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Hans Speidel, like many of the senior generals of the German Reich, is a veteran of the First World War, having served as a company commander in the Battle of the Somme, and having remained in the down-sized German army following the Treaty of Versailles. He continued his excellent record of service in restoring Germany to power in the Second World War. Specifically, Speidel is famous for leading the capture of Leningrad in the Second World War, one of the Reich's most damning blows against Bukharin and his Bolshevik comrades.\\\
Speidel is undoubtedly one of the most powerful men in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, and he has the talent to show it. A leader for the Reformists within the Reich, Speidel believes that Germany should maintain its status as a global hegemonic power, but pays little heed to the Nazi racial policies, which he views as barbaric and outdated. As such, he has pushed for the Reich to adopt the trappings of modernity and reject some of the more outlandish aspects of National Socialism.\\\
This, combined with his lack of membership in the NSDAP, has earned Speidel many enemies within the Reich. His promotion to Chief of the OKW caused outrage amongst the more conservative and reactionary elements of the nation, though the reformist faction was pleasantly surprised. Regardless of one's view on his political beliefs, however, Speidel's military record is damn near spotless.[[/labelnote]]

A proud Wehrmacht general, Speidel gained prominence in the Wehrmacht due to his past acts of pacifying the mutinous SS and the German militarists in recent decades. Politically a reformist, Speidel feels loyalty to the German people first and foremost, and rejects the politicization of the Wehrmacht, while having little interest in Nazi racial policies.

* ArchEnemy: Hans Speidel and Ferdinand Schörner fiercely struggle for influence in the Wehrmacht and have a mutual antagonistic history, with Speidel preventing Schörner from taking over the Wehrmacht several times. While Speidel tries to protect the people and thinks that the Wehrmacht shouldn't exert an influence on the civilian government, Schörner desires it openly and wants to use the people as a weapon.
* BeneathTheMask: Even if he points out to Schörner that German troops are not immediately ready to conduct an invasion of HMMLR and that the east is still in rebellion with a calm attitude, he is quietly dreadful of HMMLR's victory and the opportunity it presents for the OFN.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Speidel spins a complicated conspiracy in the Reformist Plot to overthrow Bormann and Schörner. Specifically, Reichswerke's corruption would be exposed to create an economic depression and give the momentum needed to launch a coup with disloyal Heer units.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: Even if he puts an end to the Civil War by himself, Speidel doesn't want to become the new German leader, since he believes that the military shouldn't have a massive role in the government. If he agrees to take the Führer's mantle, he will resign from the military.
* DefectorFromDecadence:
** [[spoiler:Speidel outright drops any pretenses of SS support following Heydrich’s death and openly aligns with the [[TheRemnant Deutsches Reich]].]]
** Speidel can also lead the reformist movement against Schörner and the other militarist factions during the Post-Göring Second German Civil War.
* EliteArmy: Speidel's forces, though relatively small, are some of the best trained and most disciplined ones in Germany, and, by the time he enters the Civil War, his forces (compared to that of the other contenders) are fresh and undamaged by the prolonged war.
* EnemyMine: Should Heydrich win the Civil War and spare his life, [[spoiler:Speidel could wind up aligning with him, but only out of duty and in the mutual interest of opposing Himmler's Burgundy. That allegiance goes out the window the moment Heydrich dies, however.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: If Speidel is [[spoiler: purged in the Second Dismantlement under Bormann]], he decides to go down fighting rather than getting hanged.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: In RealLife, Speidel was a Generalleutenant in the Wehrmacht, later becoming a 4-star General in the [[UsefulNotes/WeAreNotTheWehrmacht Bundeswehr]]. In TNO however, as a [[JustifiedTrope reward for stopping Himmler's coup]], Hitler promoted him to a Generalfeldmarschall, also making him the Chief of the OKW.
* ImHavingSoulPains: [[spoiler: If Speer outmaneuvers the Gang of Four,]] Henning von Tresckow will hear about Speidel compaining of Joint Pain. [[spoiler: He knows in reality, Speidel is depressed over having lost the post of the Chief of the OKW to Otto Ernst Remer.]]
* IWarnedYou: He does this to Helmut Schmidt after him negotiating with the Frankfurt Slave Revolt causes several other slaves in other parts of the Reich to become overzealous, causing further revolts and casualties.
* InternalReformist: Speidel wants to depoliticize the Wehrmacht and reform it away from its bloated, corrupt practices into a proper, modern military.
* KeystoneArmy: When Speidel gets assassinated by one of Müller's Orpo agents, the Reformist Plot loses all of its potential and his followers surrender shortly afterwards.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: While he is still a general in the Wehrmacht and seeks to uphold German dominance over Europe, [[spoiler:in Bormann's route, Speidel becomes one of the leaders of the Reformists in Germany, opposed to his centralisation of power, and will oppose Bormann and plot his downfall either during the Reformist Plot or the June of Deceit.]]
* MandatoryUnretirement: When Speidel seizes control of Germania after the Civil War erupts, he invites his old friend UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel, who is 72 years old and has retired from the military more than a decade ago, to help him protect the capital. During the Civil War, Rommel serves as Speidel's head of government; when the war ends, he retires from the military again and for good.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Speidel and the Wehrmacht elements under his command are loyal to the Reich and its people, rather than to either the Nazis or whoever's actually in charge, and will take matters to their own hands should the need arise. [[spoiler:This especially comes into play in Heydrich's path.]]
* NeutralNoLonger:
** If Heydrich somehow manages to defeat the Anti-Heydrich Pact and the Schutzzone is the only part of Germany not under his control, Speidel will not turn Germania over to his control as with the other contenders, instead declaring a war on the SS that he is likely to lose by that point.
** [[spoiler:If he's not killed in Heydrich's path, he'll eventually and openly defy the SS warlords as head of the [[TheRemnant Deutsches Reich]].]]
* NervousTics: Whenever nervous, while never showing it in the face, he could be seen fiddling with his pen.
* NobleTopEnforcer: Speidel is your next "friendly neighborhood Nazi" after Speer. Even though Speidel wants to preserve German territorial expansion (in the sense of ensuring all Germans are in Germany under German governance), he doesn't believe in racial theories, thinks the slave system is harmful to the country, and considers protecting the people to be his main goal as a soldier. However, unlike Speer, Speidel is very reluctant at his reforms (if he ever attempts them), not surrounded by the Gang of Four, and much less politically competent. [[spoiler:Though as it turns out, [[ZigzaggedTrope Speer isn't all that enthusiastic about reform either.]]]]
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: If Speer wins the German Civil War, Speidel's proposal for reclaiming Poland boils down to strongarming the Poles into peacefully accepting Wehrmacht occupation, under threat of invasion if they refuse.
* OldSoldier: Hans Speidel fought in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, fighting as a company commander at the Somme and has been in the military ever since.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: If he and the Schutzzone Germania gets defeated by Heydrich's Germany after the latter is done defeating the other contenders, it is revealed that he recruited ChildSoldiers to fight against Heydrich [[BatmanGrabsAGun in a great contrast to his professional and moral nature]]. However, he still comes off as sympathetic given [[KnightOfCerebus who he is]] [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans fighting against]].
* QualityOverQuantity: In contrast to Schörner, Speidel wants a smaller-scale, but more professional Wehrmacht that focuses on creating an EliteArmy over a wave of cannon fodder.
* RedBaron: One of Bormann's foci refers to Speidel as ''Retter des Reichs'' (Savior of the Reich).
* ReluctantRuler: He doesn't want to see himself as the new ruler of Germany; the Reichstag has to practically beg for him to stay in power should he win the Civil War. [[spoiler:Should the SS plunge the Reich into civil war and warlordism, however, [[NeutralNoLonger Speidel becomes less hesitant to restore German dignity]].]]
* SeriesContinuityError: His Description as a General states that he has been promoted as the Chief of the OKW. However, checking out the Officer Corps tab in-game as Germany reveals his rival, Ferdinand Schörner, to be described as the Chief of the OKW.
* SpottingTheThread: Speidel manages to conceal the Reformist Plot from Bormann, until a sergeant catches two soldiers vandalizing Köln with anti-Bormann propaganda, leading an investigation into wider dissidence from the Wehrmacht.
* TakeAThirdOption: During the Frankfurt slave revolt in Speer's Germany, Speidel offers a middle-of-the-road option between Schörner's plan to send the Wehrmacht to crush the revolt and Schmidt's plan to negotiate with the slaves. According to Speidel, Germany should send their best units to infiltrate the city and quietly dismantle the insurrection, minimizing casualties, but still appearing strong before the Reich's enemies.
* TeamSwitzerland: When the German Civil War erupts, Speidel marches into Germania with his like-minded generals and, on the steps of the Reichstag, declares neutrality in the conflict, with a stern warning of an unshakable resistance should any side attempt to attack the capital.
* TranquilFury: If Bormann sides with Schörner, Speidel is clearly disappointed and angered, but he hides it with enough composure to seem calm on the outside. It's a stark contrast to Schörner's reaction if he's sided against, in which he completely blows up to everyone's face.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** When he stopped the SS Coup, this caused Oskar Dirlewanger and his brigade to flee to the Southern Urals, unbeknownst to the German leadership, who assumed they would die there, where they are free to terrorise and brutalise the local population, free of meddling from the German High Command.
** His victory against Bormann in the first Dismantlement only results in Schörner and his militarists mobilizing a counter-coup to seize power and declare a provisional government with themselves at its head.

[[folder:Ferdinand Schörner]]
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Göring cabinet), Head of State (Military Coup)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Orthodox[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party[[/note]], Regierung des Nationalen Wiederaufbaus[[note]]Government of National Reconstruction[[/note]] (Göring coup)
->'''Ideology:''' Stratocratic Nazism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Field Marshal)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born: 1892\\
Age: 70\\
Branch: Heer\\
Rank: Generalfeldmarschal\\
They call him "Butcher", "Bloody Ferdinand", "Hound of War" and many other brutal sobriquets. He is content with the title of Generalfeldmarschall. He is skilled in large scale operations involving hundreds of thousands of men, and he cares nothing for their individual lives. Ferdinand Schörner is a man loved by none and feared by all. In the West Russian War, it was said, the chances of being hanged as a deserter was greater than the chance of death in combat. His sway in the military was more than proven when, following a brief coup attempt at the end of that war, Schorner found his prospects for power actually rising.\\\
A veteran of the First World War, Ferdinand would end up as one of the Führer's favorite commanders in the Second. In more recent times he has also cultivated a mutually beneficial partnership with Reichsmarschall Göring, the old ace lending his political capital to Schorner's requests in exchange for the loyalty of the militarist faction.\\\
Still, the old devil of the Eastern Front has his own designs for the future, ones that may or may not require any politician to be his master. His rivalry with the other star of the Wehrmacht, Hans Speidel, is one of the largest obstacles he has yet to be encountered. Only time will tell if he has finally met his match, or, as some fear, he is only a step away from achieving his own ambitions.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Leader of the New Guard) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Jingoistic ideological warriors, the New Guard are the devout National Socialists inside the Wehrmacht. Members of this Clade are usually veterans of Germany's wars of conquest in Eastern Europe, sabre-rattling suits in government, or elderly guts-and-glory-style generals with ironclad faith in Hitler's vision. Together, these groups plot to depose the Old Guard in the High Command and establish the primacy of National Socialist ideology in the Wehrmacht.\\\
Although the New Guard, by and large, do not involve themselves in Party politics, they do have their opinions on civic matters. Peace, they say, has made the Reich flabby and weak. The average German, who has probably never lifted anything heavier than a pencil, would not be able to defend the Fatherland if called upon. As Germans are, they need some discipline, a whipping-into shape. They need to sweat and strain and feel aches in their muscles to get back in touch with the 20th century, to win the Cold War. So the program of the New Guard goes: Germans will be great or they will be nothing.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Göring Coup - '''Warning: Unmarked Spoilers''') [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Many called Schörner a failure. He failed to achieve the glory he truly desired in the World War, he failed to stomp the Russians and fill the power vacuum left by the SS in West Russia, and he failed to take control of the Wehrmacht after years of planning when the damnable Speidel betrayed him and destroyed his career. Schörner, however, is a man with a plan. Having followed Göring for as long as was necessary to once find himself with a significant amount of power, Schörner now fights for nobody but himself.\\\
Tearing down the infrastructure Göring had so desperately built to form his militant faction, Schörner has now declared that the Civil War will only end when every 'Volksverräter', or 'people's traitor', is dead.\\\
Many, however, have taken issue with this statement. Not only at the insinuation that so many must die, but at the vagueness of the words. To Schörner, the Reich is a sterling white canvas, and the man only has one large brush and an ever-increasing bucket of blood.[[/labelnote]]

The ''de facto'' leader of the German militarists, an ambitious and brutal ''Generalfeldmarschal'' of the Wehrmacht.

* AintTooProudToBeg: If Bormann purges him in the First Dismantlement through an open attack, Schörner will be caught by several soldiers while he's trying to flee the city. Schörner cowers and helplessly pleads that he isn't the man they're looking for, but the soldiers shoot him before he can finish one sentence.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: When authorized by Bormann to crush the remaining reformists in the First Dismantlement, Schörner plans to reduce the city of Dresden to a pile of rubble through artillery, in an image very similar to the Dresden bombing.
* ArcVillain: He is a major obstacle that eventually needs to be dealt with by the end of the 1962-1972 segment in three of the four German story routes.
** In Speer's route, [[spoiler:he ultimately gets reassigned to Moskowien, where he establishes military rule and later mutinies during the Slave Revolt, aiming to both crush the Slave Revolt and depose the "liberal" Speer regime, becoming a ClimaxBoss in the crisis, regardless of the way Speer himself deals with the slaves.]]
** In Göring's route, [[spoiler:he and the militarists ultimately are Göring's puppet masters, and he can depose him if the latter grows disloyal.]]
** In Bormann's route, [[spoiler:if Bormann appoints Speidel as Chief of the OKW, Schörner will craft the Militarist Plot and attempt to coup Bormann, and will be purged during the First Dismantlement. If he's the Chief of the OKW, Schörner will, later on, support the conspiracy of the June of Deceit, and either successfully overthrows Bormann or gets purged during the Second Dismantlement.]]
* ArchEnemy:
** Hans Speidel and Ferdinand Schörner fiercely struggle for influence in the Wehrmacht and have a mutual antagonistic history, with Speidel preventing Schörner from taking over the Wehrmacht several times. While Schörner wants to use the people as a weapon and merge the German military and civilian government into one, Speidel dislikes the very idea of a military government and tries to protect the people.
** Schörner is also a fierce opponent to Tresckow, much for the same reasons why Schörner despises Speidel. To Tresckow, Schörner represents all of the bloodthirsty and corrupt attitudes that fester in the Wehrmacht and its up to him to reform the organization into something more benevolent, inevitably curbing the field marshal's influence in the process.
* BerserkButton:
** The idea of reforming the Wehrmacht to become less violent is a big one for Schörner, which repeatedly shows up in Speer's route when Tresckow pumps out multiple reforms to achieve this goal, such as lowering the military draft.
** Likewise, hearing about the possibility of negotiating with slaves will anger Schörner to no end. This is best showcased during the Frankfurt slave revolt, where hearing Schmidt's proposal to negotiate with the rebels incites Schörner to begin flinging insults at him over Speer's phone. If Speer accepts the proposal, Schörner makes such a ferocious roar of anger that the phone nearly rattles off the table.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: If the militarists [[spoiler:are purged in the Second Dismantlement, Schörner will kill himself with a self-inflicted gunshot, knowing that he's a dead man walking anyway.]]
* BiggerIsBetter: To him, the size of the army is the deciding factor in war. It doesn't matter how professional it is or how many casualties ensue, so long as Germany has more bodies to expend.
* BloodKnight: Schörner is the true head of the German militarists, and relishes in the glory of war. He is despised by both subordinates and superiors alike, especially his rival Hans Speidel, who regards his clique as little more than a band of psychotic sabre-rattlers.
* BungledSuicide: As Speer [[spoiler:crushes Schörner's militarist mutiny during the slave revolt, [[https://i.redd.it/4wdkuqj3ae381.png he tries to take his life with a cyanide pill]], but is captured by partisans and lynched]].
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: After the German Civil War is won by either Speer or Bormann, Schörner avoids execution because the Führer recognizes that killing Schörner would create a martyr for the militarists to rally behind and start another war, so he's kept alive to placate them for the time being.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: {{Subverted}}, if he coups Bormann in the first Dismantlement. In his speech to the Reichstag, Schörner declares himself leader of the Provisional Government of Germany, promising to restore order and step down when the Führer has been found. Obviously, the Führer is never coming back, considering his death, and Schörner has no intention of fulfilling his promise.
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Schörner's mutiny is the last major war the player faces in both Speer's Paternalist and Fascist paths (both routes require the slave revolt to be ended by negotiation).]]
* TheCorrupter: Even if Speer or Bormann manages to defeat Schörner's puppet Göring in the Civil War, they will have to deal with him and his militarists, who continue to advocate for military expansion and hawkish foreign policies.
* DeadlyEuphemism: If Bormann throws his lot in with Schörne, the latter will advise purging the Wehrmacht of suspected traitors, with some being forced into a "permanent retirement".
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: After Schörner integrates the eastern Reichskommissariats into the Reich, he'll clarify that he's not abolishing them. He insists that he's only reduced their autonomy to an extreme degree, as if it makes any difference.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Being seemingly loyal to Göring, Schörner wouldn't have a second thought to dispose of his favored Führer if he becomes an obstacle to his plans.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:If Heydrich won the German Civil War, Hans Speidel can advise him to provide aid to Schörner so he can coup his renegade underling Remer, regain control over the Militarist remnants, and join Heydrich's Anti-Himmler Coalition to stop Himmler's nuclear plot.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Schörner is a rabid militarist, but even ''he'' wouldn't think of entering a nuclear war with the United States and Japan, unlike Remer. As his enemy Speidel puts it, although Schörner is bloodthirsty, brutal, short-tempered, cruel and borderline insane, he isn't stupid. He wants to conquer the world, not torch it.
* EvilOldFolks: Schörner, having been born in 1892, is 70 years old at game start, and one of the most evil figures in the Reich.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Schörner wears glasses and leads the warmongering militarist faction of Germany.
* GeneralRipper:
** Schörner obsesses over fighting wars and destroying his enemies. His first goal after taking power is rooting out the ''Volksverräter'' ("people's traitors") by killing them all.
** Schörner is outraged at a HMMLR victory in the British Civil War, believing it to be apart of an American plot to invade Germany, so argues for a swift invasion that mobilises every unit not preoccupied, dismissing Speidel when he points out that the east is still rebelling.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While a ruthless Wehrmacht general and devoted Nazi historically, Schörner historically did not advocate using human wave attacks against his enemies as a way to crush all opposition to his opponents through sending his opponents to the front to die.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Despite being the de facto leader of the militarists during the German Civil War, Schörner usually escapes consequences on the aftermath of the German Civil War, and is a major problem for almost every Führer he serves under (except Speidel, who can easily fire him due to his massive support base in the Wehrmacht, and Heydrich, who actually ends up [[spoiler:allying himself with Schörner to deal with Otto Ernst Remer]]). [[spoiler: However, he can eventually get his comeuppance where he can be either DrivenToSuicide or killed by partisans, in the case of Speer, or secret agents, in the case of Bormann.]]
* KeystoneArmy: Schörner is the brains behind the military conspiracy in the First Dismantlement. When he gets assassinated by FHO agents, the entire cabal crumbles, with the remaining conspirators turning on each other, fleeing eastward, or attempting a hopeless, desperate attempt to launch their coup in Riga.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Schörner isn't even the most rabid of the militarists. That title belongs to his second-in-command Otto Ernst Remer, a particularly bloodthirsty Wehrmacht officer who fully supports all of the militarists' warmongering plans and even advocates nuclear war as a means, something that Schörner is disturbed by. [[spoiler:This gets {{Subverted}} during the Slave Revolt, in which it's actually Schörner who rebels against Germany, while Remer remains loyal.]]
* MilitaryCoup: There are many ways for Schörner to forcefully seize power.
** His skeleton content teaser shows that he can align with Oberländer and instigate a reactionary coup against Speer, if he botches the Slave Revolt.
** There are three ways for him to coup Bormann.
*** If Bormann sided against the reformists, but gets killed by them, Schörner will gather his militarist allies and launch a counter-coup, declaring himself provisional leader of Germany.
*** If Bormann sided against the militarists, but can't dismantle them, Schörner kills Speidel and declares himself the Chief of the OKW. With Bormann committing suicide to spare himself a more grim fate, Schörner marches to Germany and holds an emergency vote in the Reichstag to be declared provisional leader.
*** In the 1970's, [[spoiler:Schirach's successful conspiracy may lead to Schörner taking over, if the militarists weren't purged in the first Dismantlement.]]
** In Heydrich's path, if Heydrich provides enough resources to Schörner, [[spoiler:he will coup Remer (who has established a warlord state in Hannover made up of Militarist remnants), and join Heydrich to stop Himmler.]]
* OldSoldier: Ferdinand Schörner is a veteran of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI who distinguished himself in the Battle of Caporetto as a lieutenant and distinguished himself with a Pour le Mérite medal.
* PressGanged: Schörner takes this to new heights once Goring takes power after the Civil War. In this new Germany, the ''entire population'' is mobilized for the war effort.
* ProperlyParanoid: Bormann thinks Schörner is being paranoid of how Speidel might act against the two of them, but this fear is proven right when the reformist plot is uncovered and Bormann to purge them in the First Dismantlement.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: After Bormann dismantles the Reformist Plot, he openly taunts Schörner that he will be reassigned to Moscow or Ukraine so that he can no longer influence the Reichs' politics.
* RedBaron: Bormann's initial focus tree refers to him as ''Ungeheuer in Uniform'' (Monster in Uniform), which was Schörner's real nickname, along with ''Blutiger Ferdinand'' (Bloody Ferdinand).
* TheResenter: Towards Hans Speidel, his biggest rival in the Wehrmacht. Not only is Speidel the last obstacle for Schörner's undisputed leadership in the German military, but he also prevented him from taking over the Wehrmacht leadership during the West Russian War, an event for which Schörner could not forgive him.
* SeriesContinuityError: Checking out the Officer Corps tab in-game as Germany him to be described as the Chief of the OKW. However, Hans Speidel's Description as a General states that he has been promoted as the Chief of the OKW.
* SinisterShades: The BloodKnight GeneralRipper Schörner wears a pair of shades in his portrait. [[note]]It appears to have been on a picture from his OTL trial in 1957.[[/note]]
* SpaceFillingEmpire: After Schörner takes power through a coup, he'll annex all of Germany's eastern holdings into the Reich proper to increase efficiency and cement his control over them.
* SpottingTheThread: If Bormann sides with Speidel, Schörne discreetly prepares a military coup against the Führer. The preparations begins smoothly, until Bormann uncovers an abnormal increase in uniform expenditures in Ostland, leading up to a full-blown investigation into a military coup attempt.
* TheStarscream: In Speer's route, after being sent to the Military Administration of Russia to [[spoiler:deal with the Freies Europa slave revolt, Schörner leads the militarists to launch a coup against Alexis von Roenne, in the process going rogue from the Reich and forcing Speer to deal with him by force]].
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In Bormann's route, if he ends up purging the militarists, he gets rid of Schörner by [[spoiler:having polonium mixed with his morning tea. Over the course of a week, Schörner complains of his shaking hands, diarrhoea, bleeding gums and hair falling out before he drops dead]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: If Schörner [[spoiler:crushes the Slave Revolt and marches onto Germania, he'll be welcomed to power by the more reactionary elements of the NSDAP, including Oberländer. Then, the two agree to work together for the time being, though Schörner and Oberländer begin building up their support bases in preparation for a coup against the other.]]
* TheUnfettered: Schörner is glad to use ''any'' means to achieve victory and perpetuate the ForeverWar.
* UriahGambit: He sees his massive conscription program as a good way to deal with his opposition and dissenters in Germany.
* VillainousBreakdown: In Bormann's route, [[spoiler:if Schörner is purged during the Second Dismantlement, he panics as Bormann's troops close in on him, and decides to [[AteHisGun shoot himself]] so he won't get hanged.]]
* WeHaveReserves: Schörner is an unprincipled warmonger with no qualms about the human cost of his operations. To him, an army must be bloated with many conscripts to throw at the enemy, until victory is achieved.

!!! Tropes pertaining to the facelift
->'''Role:''' Leader of the New Guard (Speer)
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* TheStarscream: As shown in the Speer clade teaser, Schörner leads the New Guard of the Wehrmacht, who plot to overthrow the Old Guard and turn the military into an arm of the National Socialist cause.

[[folder:Otto Ernst Remer]]
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Assertive Reformist Speer cabinet), Economy Minister (Militarist Schirach cabinet), Head of State ([[spoiler:SS Civil War]])
-> '''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]], Reformed National Socialism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]] (Assertive Reformist Speer route)
->'''In-Game Biography''' (General) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born: 1912\\
Age: 50\\
Branch: Heer\\
Rank: Generaloberst\\
If Schorner is the butcher, Otto Ernst Remer is his bloody knife. As a young officer coming of age just before the rise of the Nazis, Remer devoted himself body and soul to the National Socialist cause. Remer served with distinction in the campaigns against Poland, the Balkans, and during Operation Barbarossa, eventually rising to a battalion command in the Grossdeutschland Division. Remer's crowning glory came when he was personally awarded Oak leaves to his Knight's Cross by no less than the Führer, Adolf Hitler, himself. Remer's unit served in the thickest fighting of the war, from the deep heart of Russia where the Union was finally broken to the hills of North England where war finally came to its close.\\\
In the long years since then, Remer has steadily grown in his influence within the Wehrmacht, rapidly rising to become Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner's right hand man, and as a consequence, the second most powerful man in the militarist faction of the officer corps. While Remer does have a strong degree of respect for his fellow warmonger and direct superior, his loyalty truly lies only with whoever he believes furthers the cause of the ultimate global victory of National Socialism, and whomever he thinks can best support that goal with action.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography (Assertive Reformist Speer Security Minister)''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]For Otto Ernst Remer, duty exists above all else. Though he supported Joseph Goebbels' promotion of Stratocratic National Socialism, his loyalty to Adolf Hitler remained absolute. Though he supported Hermann Göring's ascension to power in 1963, his loyalty to the new Führer Albert Speer remained absolute.\\\
Though he supported Ferdinand Schörner's ideals, his loyalty to the official chain of command remained absolute.\\\
Remer's betrayal of the Militarists has earned the Führer's trust and the Reformists' gratitude, despite their ideological differences. His promotion to Feldmarschall and newfound role as the OKW's Chief of Staff has shaken the Wehrmacht to its core, but Speer understands the necessity of such a gamble. With the likes of Henning von Tresckow scheming in the shadows, men of stoic obedience like Otto Ernst Remer are needed now more than ever.[[/labelnote]]


Otto Ernst Remer, once a career soldier in Germany's Heer, found his way into the position of Schörner's right-hand man following the German market crash. Ambitious and opportunistic, Remer is considered to be the maddest of the Militarist mad dogs, his vision of conquest matched by few in the Reich.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: If Heydrich wins the Civil War and then [[spoiler:supports Schörner retaking command of the militarists, Remer can be heard pleading with Heydrich to save his life before Schörner empties a full magazine into his erstwhile subordinate.]]
* AllohistoricalAllusion: In real life, Remer was crucial in the unraveling of the 20 July plot, which included Henning von Tresckow as one of its ringleaders. In TNO, [[spoiler:he can ironically wind up working under him in Speer's Reich, however much Remer hates him and the reformists.]]
* AntiMutiny: Remer is a die-hard Schörnerite, [[spoiler:but as unwavering as he is in his fanatical beliefs, his loyalty to the hierarchy of the state is greater, no matter how reformist and heterodox Speer's government gets. He opposes and refuses to join Schörner's rebellion, and as such can still be assigned as the leader of the forces Speer sends to retake Moskowien.]]
* BloodKnight: By far the most radical militarist in the Reich, Remer has always advocated for war as an end in itself.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being a mad militarist and hating Speer and the reformists, [[spoiler:he is not willing to turn against the Reich and refuses to join Schörner in his rebellion in the Speer path. This earns him a promotion to Chief of Staff of the OKW, if Speer retains power from the Gang of Four]].
* DependingOnTheWriter: The devs have noted that there are currently two completely opposing portrayals of Remer in the current TNO: a nuke-happy ultra-warmonger (as depicted in Heydrich and Göring's routes), and a traditionalist Nazi dedicated to serving the Führer (as depicted in Speer's route).
* FaceDeathWithDignity: After Schörner is assassinated by Bormann in the First Dismantlement, Remer tries rallying the remaining loyalists to launch a coup against Germany, but a Wehrmacht army stops him before he can commit anything major. As Remer is lined up to a firing squad, Remer heils Schörner one last time before he is killed.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Remer is one of the vilest and most profoundly evil people in the mod, and wears glasses in his advancing age.
* GeneralRipper: Remer is described as the maddest among the mad dogs and advocates for invading the United States and Japan (which are both nuclear-armed superpowers), even though doing so would end human civilization. [[spoiler: Especially telling is that during Heydrich's power struggle with Himmler, letting Remer know about the Burgundian nuclear plot makes Remer more loyal to ''Himmler''.]]
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Otto Ernst Remer was a Wehrmacht officer-turned Neo-Nazi politician historically. Here he is a militarist figure even more radical than Schörner, being amongst the main advocates for War Plan C, who are willing to end the world by invading another nuclear power. In fact, Schörner feels defeated when Remer is promoted to Field Marshal.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: In spite of everything else, Remer's loyalty to the Führer is absolute. In Speer's route, [[spoiler:while he ultimately hates Speer and the reformists, and agrees with Schörner's ideals, he defects from the militarists and sides with Speer because his first loyalty does not lie with Schörner.]]
* TheStarscream: If Heydrich wins the German Civil War, [[spoiler: Remer seizes control of the militarist remnants in Germany after Schörner goes into hiding, appoints himself ''Generalfeldmarschall'', and declares Schörner a pro-Heydrich traitor.]]
* WarHawk: Remer takes this to a degree not even Schörner advocates with how he pushes for the invasion of the US and Japan, who are nuclear powers and an invasion of both would [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt trigger a nuclear war and end human civilization]].

[[folder:Alexis von Roenne]]
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander
-> '''Ideology:''' Despotism

* AssassinOutclassin: In Bormann's route, the militarists attempt to assassinate Roenne by bombing the Ansbach garrison when he's meeting with some of his subordinates. If forewarned by FHO agents, Roenne cancels the meeting, while bomb-defusing specialists are summoned to safely dispose of the bomb.
* EnemyMine: In Speer's route, after being [[spoiler:kicked out of Moscow during Ferdinand Schörner's coup to seize the Militärbezirk Russland, Roenne flees to Sankt-Peterburg and recruits everyone who wants to run from Schörner, Russians and Germans alike, against their common enemy]].
* PuppetKing: When assigned to lead Moskowien by Speer, he's little more than a figurehead to maintain German hegemony over the region. Schörner even {{Lampshades}} this, noting that Roenne's true authority lies behind Speer's.
* SacrificialLamb: During the First Dismantlement against the militarists, von Roenne and several of his subordinates can be killed in an explosion at the village of Arnsbach, showing how serious Schörner is in overthrowing Bormann.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His fate in the militarist First Dismantlement determines how Schörner's uprising is dealt with. If he survives, Bormann orders Schörner to be discreetly assassinated with polonium. If he dies, the Reich will launch an open assault against the militarists in Riga.

[[folder:Wilhelm Burgdorf]]
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Reichsministerium des Innern[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Bormann cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Konservativ Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party - Conservative Faction[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Reichsministerium des Innern) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A grizzled veteran of both World Wars and the West Russian War, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Burgdorf has been a military man since he was assigned to the Prussian Army's Grenadier Regiment 12 in 1915. The 1930s saw him leaping up the ranks of the Wehrmacht and into the inner circle of Adolf Hitler, who Burgdorf served as Chief Adjutant. While some military officers keep their private thoughts to themselves, Burgdorf is notorious for wearing his heart on his sleeve. He supports Martin Bormann and the National Socialist state as virulently as he despises Jews, Catholics, Reformists and Militarists. If there is one thing he hates above all, however, it is defeatism.[[/labelnote]]

* BerserkButton: He's got plenty, including Jews, Catholics, reformists, militarists, and especially defeatism. To Burgdorf, all of these are a stain on Germany and must be eradicated.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: If Bormann fails to purge Schörner and the militarists in the First Dismantlement, Burgdorf and the other Conservative Wehrmacht officers will defect to his side to prevent a lengthy civil war, knowing that Bormann's cause is doomed.
* OldSoldier: Burgdorf is a veteran from both World Wars and the West Russian War, serving in the military since 1915.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** Despite his hatred for the militarists during the German Civil War, Burgdorf pardons most of them because the Wehrmacht would be left too weak otherwise.
** When Denmark is reconquered by Bormann, Burgdorf advises him to turn the country into a puppet state rather than a Reichskommissariat, both to increase the occupation government's stability and deny the militarists another avenue to increase their influence.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once Müller is promoted to Bormann's security minister, Burgdorf drops out of the storyline completely, leaving it ambiguous [[spoiler:if he joined von Schirach's June of Deceit or stayed loyal.]]

!!''Wehrwirtschaftsführer''
[[folder:General Tropes]]
The ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'' are the leading military industrialists of the Greater German Reich, directly controlling the vast amounts of the private sector across Germany, and holding millions of underclass populations as forced laborers.

With the end of the German Civil War, the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'' face a new Führer leading the German Reich. Führer Albert Speer especially sees a need to directly confront the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'', as he aims to end the German slave system and introduce major reforms into the economy.

* ArcVillain: Along with the [[EvilReactionary party hardliners]] and [[WarHawk Schörner's militarists]], the German corporations present the biggest threat to Speer's reformist rule and act as the main obstacle for his and Erhard's economic plans for abolishing slavery in the Reich.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All four of the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'' qualify as corrupt leaders with their use of mass slave labor (to varying degrees), but Hermann Josef Abs and Friedrich Flick especially stand out, with Abs being a selfish and power-hungry individual who holds the largest number of slaves and refuses to cooperate with even the Reich itself, and Flick being both a ruthless slave abuser and a hardline Nazi who's friends with Heinrich Himmler.
* MegaCorp: The four great industrial conglomerates grew on the spoils from the German conquests during WWII, swallowed conquered industry and employs an enormous amount of unpaid labor through the slavery programs. Like four giant leeches, they are slowing down the economy and reducing the common man's earnings by employing slaves. If Speer comes to power, he and Erhard will have to weaken and dismantle the four largest conglomerates to end the use of slave labor.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: With the notable exception of [[BlackShirt Flick]] none of the Wirtschaftsführers value Nazism or even ideological integrity next to their profits. [[spoiler: While Geilenberg is ultimately revealed to be a sincere but hypocritical Nazi who has let the power and wealth of being a cartel mogul get to him, Siemens and Abs are both remorseless opportunists with reformist or outright anti-Nazi leanings.]]
* PetTheDog: The Wirtschaftsführers send birthday gifts to Erich Schumann in Antarctica, where Abs sends 5,000 shares, Siemens sends an expensive watch, and Flick sends a glass of whiskey.
* PragmaticVillainy: In Bormann's route, some of them will privately voice displeasure over his mild reforms to rein in their slavery, but they nonetheless oblige because they're still keeping their wealth and they don't want to get purged by him.

[[folder:Hermann Josef Abs]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of IG Farben, Economy Minister (Bormann and Oberländer cabinets)
->'''Ideology:''' Despotism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]From the stock exchanges in Milan and banks of Bordeaux to the institutes of Oslo and slave pens of Moskau stretches an economic empire unlike any other. Hermann Josef Abs sits on its throne, controlling it from the shadows and in the light, under one clear objective - power. His power, and no one else's. IG Farben is the largest asset of an empire that spans the Deutsche Bank and many dozen more companies. Abs is not a member of the NSDAP; in fact, he was always distanced towards Hitler and his clique. Despite this he was a major architect of the war economy and carved his empire out of the spoils of the World War, even indulging in and financing the slave business to the point of forging IG Farben into the largest slaveholding corporation in Germany.\\\
His obsession with power and refusal to cooperate cannot be ignored any longer. Abs and his empire must be destroyed.[[/labelnote]]
The Head of IG Farben and potentially the most powerful ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer''.

* AffablyEvil: During his vacation to Hitlerstadt in RK Zentralafrika, Abs comes off as friendly and charismatic, even asking Siegfried Müller (who has gone out of his way to call him 'Herr Abs') to refer to him with his first name, all while trying to be imposing to get Müller off his guard.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: VERY downplayed, but there. Abs is the head of the largest of the great cartels and complicit in countless crimes and by any stretch of the imagination not a good guy. He is, however, more genuinely amiable and less malevolent on a personal level than his peers, and is a(n immoral) businessman, not a political animal or party fanatic, and is personally opposed to his cartel's use of slavery [[PragmaticVillainy because of the practical problems with it.]] [[spoiler:Moreover, he is the only one of the four Wehrwirtschaftsführers to possess genuine anti-Nazi convictions not driven by Siemens's cowardice, being convinced a democratic, capitalist republic will be much more beneficial to Germany and particularly *himself* than the National Socialist dictatorship. This means he tends to become a problem for Bormann, Speer, and other leaders and an ally of reformists.]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: He's not even an official member of the NSDAP and his loyalty can switch on a dime. The one consistent trait about Abs is his craving for personal wealth and power and he won't give it up easily.
* ArchEnemy: Whenever he meets Erhard from the Gang of Four, Abs acts as if they were old colleagues and friends. The feeling is not mutual, as Erhard holds him the greatest contempt out of all the reformers, being the most reluctant to even hear out [[spoiler:his proposal to hand the support of Deutsche Bank to their reformist cause.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The most triumphant example in the mod, rivalled only by those seen in Guangdong. Abs is leader of the largest MegaCorp in the Reich and possibly the world, complicit in theft on a continental scale and the slavery of dozens of millions of people. [[spoiler:His opportunism proves to be a double edged sword. On one hand, he'll fund Schörner's attempt to crush the Slave Revolt and undermine Speer. On the other hand, he is an amoral but high-functioning capitalist robber baron who believes a democratic Germany will be more beneficial to him in the long run than a Nazi dictatorship that could confiscate his wealth and shoot him whenever the current government decides to, making him a useful, if tenuous, ally to the Gang of Four.]]
* CigarChomper: Abs is seen with a plump cigar in his portrait, which adds to his CorruptCorporateExecutive image.
* FatBastard: Abs is a portly executive who engages in mass slavery to build his opulent wealth.
* GracefulLoser: Zigzagged. When Erhard announces the dismantlement of his corporation, Abs takes it incredibly well and even confesses to having been a silent supporter of Speer's reforms, in part because even ''without'' IG Farben he still controls many companies and the Deutsche Bank. In fact, Erhard notes that he takes it ''too'' well and suspects that Abs isn't giving up just yet. [[spoiler:These suspicions turn out to be correct when Abs and the rest of the Wehrwirtschaftsführer support Schörner's coup during the Slave Revolt.]] He pulls it ''again'' in the [[spoiler:Gang of Four]] path, unexpectedly showing up to a meeting and offering the support of Deutsche Bank, the main holding left to him, [[spoiler:to their bid to reform the Reich away from fascism]]. This being near the end of implemented content, it is unclear if he is honest [[spoiler:this time]] or has some scheme in mind, though the devs have suggested he is, if only so long as [[spoiler: the Gang of Four remain in charge]].
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: Abs doesn't have allegiance to any movement and will hop on to the faction that best suits his wealth and interests.
* InternalReformist: Dark example. Abs holds few principles and no morals, but he is pragmatic to a T [[spoiler: and what few principles he does have lead him to conclude that National Socialism in general and the slave system in particular are bad for business.]] As such he is one of the most open to reform of the Wehrwirtschaftsführers, trying to phase out slavery within IG Farben on his own imitative [[spoiler: and making plans to support reformist plots against the current order.]]
* {{Irony}}: The amoral, corrupt, atrociously exploitative MegaCorp leader [[spoiler: turns out to be a more genuine reformist than Speer. Whereas Speer wishes to reform National Socialism into a dynamic, pragmatic form of totalitarian dystopia, Abs wishes to get rid of it altogether.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: One of his greatest skills. He wishes to phase slavery out of IG Farben's portfolio after growing rich off of it because he believes it is an unsustainable business model that is more trouble than its worth, and responds to the dismantling of IG Farben with an unusual grace because he knows trying to fight it would just get him slapped down and because he has countless other business assets.
* TheLeader: While all of the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'' qualify as threats in their own right, Abs is the largest of them all and generally represents their slave-owning interests as a whole.
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Abs is one of the world's most powerful businessmen in the world. He is a chairman of Deutsche Bank, a giant slave conglomerate in the Einheitspakt, has connections throughout the globe, and serves as the CEO and board member of a dozen other European companies.
* NotMeThisTime:
** While investigating a potential military coup, Bormann suspects that Abs and Farben are a lead due to their recent sale of half their shares to Deutsche Bank. Abs explains that this recent move was carried out by other board members on Farben and he's actually telling the truth.
** Later, [[spoiler:while uncovering the June of Deceit plot, Bormann initially accuses Abs of playing a part in the conspiracy. However, Abs truthfully tells him that he's not among the Farben executives working against the Führer, going as far to help in the investigation.]]
* OpportunisticBastard: Abs's first loyalty is to himself, and to that end he will ally with or betray any political entity and consider it "just business." He has no true political alignment and will do whatever makes him money.
* PragmaticVillainy: The head Speer developer noted that the real-world Abs had pro-democratic views and funded pro-democracy think tanks, because he viewed democracies as better business partners than the Nazi dictatorship. And he actually is trying to phase out slavery, resisted by other members of the board, within IG Farben, though for similarly pragmatic reasons.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: IG Farben's assets are protected by its private army of mercenaries.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Abs is promoted to the position of Reichminister of Economics [[spoiler:if Bormann launches the Second Night of the Long Knives, since the former Reichsminister of Economics Kurt Lange was purged, while Abs has demonstrated his loyalty in cooperating with Bormann.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Abs is known in the corporate world as a model executive.

[[folder:Friedrich Flick]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of Daimler-Benz
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Vereinigte Stahlwerke was only the first milestone in a lifelong career in ruthless industry and lobbyism for Friedrich Flick. Politically active since the days of Weimar, he became a generous sponsor of the NSDAP, going as far as joining the Circle of Friends of Heinrich Himmler and providing hundreds of thousands in funds to the SS.\\\
Daimler-Benz, his domain, may be less expansive than those of his fellow Wehrwirtschaftsführer, but Flick's knack in stock affairs and all kinds of economics keep him a strong competitor regardless. A notorious user and abuser of the slavery system, Flick has burned through countless slaves already in his pursuit of maximizing profits, showing not even a sliver of repentance for his actions.\\\
Flick is the best example of a ruthless industrialist who capitalized on the NSDAP's rise to power and all the atrocities it brought. He must be removed.[[/labelnote]]

Head of Daimler-Benz.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Due to his corporation's small size, most are unaware that Flick has ties with the SS and exploits millions of slaves in horrid labor camps and factories. One focus description even calls his conglomerate "a wolf in sheep's clothing."
* BribeBackfire: When summoned to Ludwig Erhard's office to hear about Daimler-Benz's dissolution, Flick attempts to bribe Erhard, who then threatens to throw him in a concentration camp for trying to bribe a minister of the Reich. Flick then promptly flees from Erhard's office, and five minutes later, Erhard is still laughing.
* HairTriggerTemper: Even hearing about the possibility of losing his power is enough to throw Flick into a shouting rage.
* HateSink: Flick embodies all the worst aspects of the German MegaCorp system. He is an unrepentant slaver and proud supporter of the SS, an enormous {{Jerkass}}, and when his corporation is dismantled he can't even be a GracefulLoser.
* {{Jerkass}}: Flick is the most personally unpleasant of the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'', even disregarding his connections to the SS and complete disregard to his slave labor.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: [[AvertedTrope Notable aversion]], because Flick is the only Cartel leader of the Big Four that [[BlackShirt Genuinely IS an unalloyed supporter of the National Socialist revolution and not afraid to let anybody know it.]]
* OutOfFocus: In Bormann's route, Flick is the least prominent of the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'', [[spoiler:not joining Bormann's cabinet like Abs or Schirach's conspiracy like Geilenberg and Siemens.]] This might be because he is the most loyal, doctrinaire Nazi of them all and the most aligned with Bormann's views.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: During his vacation at Hitlerstadt in RK Zentralafrika, Friedrich Flick is enraged by how the resort he stays in employs German or Belgian workers, instead of the 'races who were best to handle them'. Notably, Bormann can earn his cooperation in winding down slavery by not only offering him more collateral in recompense, but also appealing to his "duty" towards National Socialism.
* SoreLoser: Compared to the rest of the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'', Flick reacts the least well to his conglomerate's dismantlement, visibly showing displeasure with it and trying to bribe his way out of it rather than accept it.
* ThisCannotBe: When Daimler-Benz is dismantled, Flick voices his disbelief at this development.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Flick's company has a good image on the international stage, which is why Erhard only wants to replace their leadership and curb their worst excesses than outright dismantle them so that Daimler-Benz can still contribute to the economy as prodigiously as it does.

[[folder:Edmund Geilenberg]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of Reichswerke
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Edmund Geilenberg presides over the Frankenstein's monster known as the Reichswerke, one of the largest industrial conglomerates on Earth. His placement as its new Wehrwirtschaftsführer was an easy decision - Geilenberg's connection to the conglomerate goes back to even before the Second World War had started. Reichswerke's reach across Europe bases on the plethora of industry it swallowed from the territories annexed by the Reich during its ascendancy. Although surpassed by IG Farben, it remains one of the largest cartels and slave holders in Germany.\\\
Still, the fight against the conglomerate is not a lost cause. Being legally state-owned, direct action against Geilenberg's abomination is easier to justify to the ideologues and industrialists in the NSDAP. Geilenberg will fall, and Germany will finally move on from its barbary.[[/labelnote]]

Head of Reichswerke.

* AlwaysSecondBest: Geilenberg owns the second largest megacorporation in Germany, but he will rarely receive praise as such because he's always overshadowed by the larger Farbens, less prestigious than Siemens and its legacy, and less connected to either the SS or the Nazi Purists than Daimer-Benz. This jealousy can be exploited by Bormann to become a partner and invest more into slave camps and ghettos.
* BastardUnderstudy: As a Party Bureaucrat playing business mogul, Geilenberg tends to follow either orders from his political bosses or the fashions of the other Wehrwirtschaftsführer, and in particular is shown to be [[spoiler: under the influence of Abs in Bormann's route.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Geilenberg may be a corrupt bureaucrat out of his depth as Wehrwirtschaftsführer and the least flamboyant of the cartel leaders, but he is party to no small number of atrocities and is the Wehrwirtschaftsführer who cooperated most intensely with the Old Order. [[spoiler: He is also a sincere Nazi, illegal US Stock trading aside, and will happily put his resources and that of his cartel at the disposal of militarist hardliners in order to safeguard his own power and stop what he views as excessive or corrupt reforms.]]
* ButtMonkey: Geilenberg is a bureaucratic party apparatchik rather than a businessman, and so he tends to be one of the cartel leaders most prone to being outmaneuvered.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Subverted. While he fits almost every character beat and trait of this trope, Geilenberg is instead a Corrupt [[FascistButInefficient Nazi Party]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Bureaucrat]] in charge of a cartel the NSDAP created out of whole cloth. This means that while he is as despicable as a typical example of the trope, he is also out of his depth in a way his peers are not, and has let the power and opportunity to make a buck go to his head in a way the others have not. This lack of genuine business acumen and dependence on the state for his position undermine him in the long run.
* DirtyCoward: When his corrupt investments in American markets are uncovered, Geilenberg tries to save his own skin to Bormann by blaming Deutsche Bank for advising him to make such treacherous moves.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Geilenberg denounces "western capitalism" as decadent, even though he has been investing in American companies to exchange his goods directly for U.S. currency and make more profit.
* PaperTiger: Geilenberg leads the second largest conglomerate of the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'', but since it is legally state-owned, direct action against him can be more easily justified and thus dismantling his company will be easier than it initially looks.
* PragmaticVillainy: When Ludwig Erhard announces the dissolution of Reichswerke to him, Geilenberg is angry at losing his wealth and position, but knows that in the end, he's just a functionary instated by the government to oversee a state-owned company. As a result, he chooses to cut his losses by accepting, and in return, Erhard allows him to become chairman of one of the new companies formed upon Reichswerke's dissolution.
* TheQuietOne: Of the ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'', Geilenberg is noted to be the most silent executive.
* TheStarscream: If [[spoiler:the militarists weren't purged in the First Dismantlement, Geilenberg will secretly stockpile his corporations oil supplies during the Oil Crisis, joining Schirach's conspiracy to keep his wealth.]]
* SuspiciousSpending: Geilenberg's money laundering scheme is uncovered when an investigation uncovers shell companies somehow purchasing Reichswerke assets in Ukraine, with the majority of these profits going to Geilnberg's pockets.
* VillainHasAPoint: At the mercy of Bormann when his illicit investments in American companies are uncovered, Geilenberg blames Abs and Deutsche Bank for influencing him into this corrupt scheme. At first, it just seems like a shallow lie to get rid of his rival, but an investigation can not only vindicate his story, but also discover that they've colluding in [[spoiler:a Reformist Plot.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Despite originally being one of his primary supporters in the civil war, Geilenberg's relationship with Bormann can sour if he starts blocking economic opportunities to Reichswerke from Sweden in order to remain friendly with them.

[[folder:Ernst von Siemens]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of Siemens
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Ernst von Siemens stands out as somewhat of an anomaly compared to his peers. Under him, Siemens has increased its profits ten-fold, while avoiding reaching the levels of slavery other companies display. His company stands out as one of the few in Germany still carrying a respectable international reputation.\\\
Most importantly, von Siemen's fledgling empire of electronics and machines has shown sympathy towards the reformist cause; at least when it comes to programs from which Siemens would profit. No matter if this is out of genuine conviction or mere pragmatism at the inevitable demise of slavery in the new Germany, von Siemens and his family enterprise carry a significant amount of potential both economically and in the struggle against slavery.\\\
Unlikely ally or not, Siemens' nature as a cartel interferes with Germany's economic potential. Whilst the company and its proprietor may be kept, its power must diminish.[[/labelnote]]

Head of Siemens.

* DirtyCoward: Erhard notes that Siemens' willingness to reform is not out of a change of heart, but merely because he sees the writing on the wall and cowardly wants to abandon ship before its too late. This disgusts Erhard, but he's willing to go along with it and form an uneasy alliance with Siemens to make it easier to reform the German economy.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: His megacorporation is derived from his last name.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Siemens was thoroughly involved in the war economy and employs slaves, however, they're markedly less into slavery than the three other conglomerates, and still maintain a relatively respectable international relation. Speer and Erhard note that while the other three must be dismantled, Siemens only needs to be weakened, not destroyed.
* PragmaticVillainy: If Albert Speer comes to power, Siemens will have to give up its slaves and lose its status as a cartel, something which its executive board does not like. Nevertheless, Ernst von Siemens will show some sympathy to Speer's reforms (at least when his company would profit from them), if it means not being the main target like IG Farben.
* TheStarscream: If [[spoiler:the reformists weren't purged in the First Dismantlement, Siemens will secretly stockpile his company's oil reserves during the Oil Crisis behind Bormann's back and join Schirach's conspiracy to keep his wealth.]]
* {{Unperson}}: If Bormann purges the reformists in the First Dismantlement, he'll have Siemens mysteriously disappear from the public for his collaboration with Speidel.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Since his conglomerate is markedly less into slave labor than the other ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'', Siemens carries a respectable international reputation as one of the more even-handed German companies.

!!German Intelligence

[[folder:Reinhard Gehlen]]
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->'''Role:''' Security Minister (Bormann cabinet), Präsident of Reichsnachrichtendienst (Speer), Präsident of the Hauptvervaltung Aufklärung[[note]]Main Directorate for Reconnaissance[[/note]] (Bormann), Head of State ([[spoiler:SS Civil War]])
->'''Ideology:''' Despotism, National Socialism (as Bormann's minister), Reformed National Socialism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]] ([[spoiler:SS Civil War]])
Reinhard Gehlen, also known as Agent Kleiner Fuchs, is the head of the Abwehr and one of the most powerful men in the Reich, his tendrils of intelligence reaching into all corners of Germany. Gehlen is a Führer's most powerful blade, yet he is also a double-edged sword that cuts both ways, for his loyalties lie in not just the Reich, but also the people of Germany and himself.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: In OTL, he was instrumental in the creation of West Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst during the Cold War, which survives to this day.
* AmbitionIsEvil: His primary motivation is to acquire as much power as possible, while remaining too important for his superiors to remove. However, this drives him to commit morally questionable things to maintain his power, such as faking evidence to manipulate Bormann into purging his rival, Müller.
* {{Blackmail}}: In the Gang of Four path, [[spoiler:Gehlen threatens to reveal Speer's complicity in the slave system and the Holocaust during his tenure as Minister of Armaments and War Production, preventing him from acting against the Gang as they turn Speer into their puppet]].
* BrokenPedestal: His mentee, Gerhard Wessel, regarded Gehlen with much respect as his superior. [[spoiler:However, Wessel discovers that Gehlen has actually been conducting illegal operations to suppress far-left dissidents against Germany and sent Wessel on suicide missions to indirectly remove a potential obstacle to this plan, shattering Wessel's faith in him.]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: He ends up working for every single Führer, a testament to his abilities as a skilled master of intelligence.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Gehlen is described to be an unimpressive man with a thin face and prominent ears, which masks the fact that he heads Germany's intelligence agency.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:In Heydrich's Germany, Gehlen joins the resistance against the SS warlords following Heydrich's death, and can wind up the leader of the [[TheRemnant Deutsches Reich]] if Speidel is killed.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While Gehlen may be an ambitious schemer, he's disgusted to hear about Bormann's plan to legalize polygamy, viewing his general sexual predation as revolting.
* EvilVersusEvil: To eliminate a rival to his seat of power, Gehlen can frame Heinrich Müller of corruption to get Bormann to strip him of all ranks and discharge him. While mostly done to advance his own position, his abuse is at least directed toward a sociopathic spymaster who has been actively propping up the Nazi government for years [[spoiler:and joined a plot to overthrow Bormann, even before he was fired]].
* GracefulLoser: After Wessel [[spoiler:uncovers Gehlen's corruption and forces him to resign, Gehlen sadly takes off his sunglasses, apologizes to Wessel for his misdeeds, and bids a final farewell to his former friend before leaving.]]
* InternalReformist: In Speer's route, Gehlen reforms Germany's intelligence agency into the Reichsnachrichtendienst, which will consolidate all of the agencies in this field into a single efficient organization compared to the Abwehr and Gestapo. Given how immediate his proposal is to Speer, it's likely that he always harbored this idea before the game's start.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: His description outright states that, like Speidel, he is loyal to the German people over whoever's in charge of the government, and he sides with the lesser of two evils in every path, whether it's [[spoiler: Bormann over von Schirach, the Gang of Four over Speer, or Heydrich over Himmler (and later the Deutsches Reich over the SS).]]
* PunchClockVillain: While ambitious and power-hungry, Gehlen doesn't really engage in the worst excesses of the Nazi regime. That said, he's not quite as open to reform as the Gang of Four, protesting some of their more ambitious plans, such as demanding Speer to stop Kiesinger's plan to increase funds for education and healthcare, believing that it would be a breeding ground for Bolshevik thought. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Gehlen has also been organizing corrupt deals and assassinations of far-left rebels in Germany to retain his authority in the Nazi government.]]
* SourSupporter: Gehlen is willing to work with any of the contenders for Führer and rarely gives any indication as to his feelings on any of them, but he is least enthusiastic about working for Göring. During the planning for Fall Schwarz, Gehlen has to fight the urge to bury his head in his hands when Göring waxes nostalgic about his hatred of Himmler and celebrates his impending demise rather than planning the invasion, and he puts greater trust in Ferdinand Schörner of all people in ensuring the invasion doesn't collapse.
* TheSpymaster: As head of the Reichsnachrichtendienst (under Speer) or the Strategische Unterstützungspolizei (under Bormann), Gehlen coordinates the spies that serve as the eyes and ears of these Führer both inside and outside of Germany. [[spoiler:In Bormann's Germany, in the early stages of the Second Dismantlement, he will also replace Heinrich Müller as head of the [=OrPo=] when Müller is discovered to be working with the conspiracy.]]

[[folder:Gerhard Wessel]]

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->'''Role:''' Präsident of Reichsnachrichtendienst (Speer)

Gehlen's protégé in the Abwehr.

* AssassinOutclassin: When he uncovers [[spoiler:Gehlen's corruption]], an assassin is sent to murder Wessel before he can reveal the information to anyone else. Fortunately, Wessel manages to fight off the assassin with a penknife.
* DragonAscendant: He serves as the primary enforcer for Gehlen, primarily carrying out operations against Speer's enemies like Antifa and the student protestors. [[spoiler:Once Gehlen is forced to resign after uncovering his corruption, Wessel takes his place as head of the Reichsnachrichtendienst.]]

[[folder:Heinrich Müller]]
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->'''Role:''' Chief of the Ordnungspolizei[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Bormann and Reformist Schirach cabinet), Präsident of Hauptvervaltung Aufklärung
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The Chief of the Ordnunspolizei, Heinrich Müller, has always surrounded himself in a mysterious air of apoliticism. Within seven years of the Third Reich's birth, this cold and calculating officer had evolved from Head of the Munich Political Police Department to Chief of the Gestapo, controlling the secret police of the Reich with ruthless efficiency.\\\
Despite being a longtime member of the SS, Müller was quick to side with Bormann and the Conservative wing of the NSDAP. Whether he quietly aligns with the tenets of orthodox National Socialism, or simply considered Bormann to provide the most stability, is a matter of contention. For Bormann, it matters not. As long as the [=OrPo=] Chief remains a tenacious functionary and continues to serve the German state, the Führer will trust him to fulfil his duty.[[/labelnote]]
Former director of the Gestapo who sided with the conservatives under Bormann, who appoints him head of the Ordnungspolizei, heading all security and intelligence organizations in Germany should he win the Civil War.

* CorruptPolitician: {{Downplayed}}. Other than a few instances of potential bribery, Müller has a fairly clean career that wouldn't justify his removal from them Ordungspolizei. However, Gehlen fakes evidence to exaggerate his corruption [[spoiler:and fool Bormann into thinking that he's part of Schirach's June of Deceit conspiracy]], getting him stripped all ranks and banned from any form of military service.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being the one to order such interrogations, Müller is unnerved by the torture of his informants, preferring to do the more methodical and boring paperwork of his job.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When ordered by Bormann to hunt down Speer's Gang of Four, Müller finds out that Schmidt is hiding in the United States under the FBI's protection. Müller and Bormann agree that they can't get to Schmidt, knowing that kidnapping Schmidt was not worth the risk of inciting nuclear war.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: After Bormann has him stripped him of all ranks on the grounds of being a [[spoiler:potential conspirator in Schirach's conspiracy plot, Müller joins the conspiracy to try overthrowing Bormann in retaliation. If Bormann dismantles the coup, he'll punish Müller and the rest of his co-conspirators by hanging them on piano wire.]]
* OpportunisticBastard: Opportunism is a trait actively encouraged by Bormann when he appoints Müller as the head of the Ordunspolizei, believing that a self-serving man with minimal loyalties to the Nazi party is the best choice for a head spymaster because an unscrupulous man would be an efficient subordinate.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's only a secondary character in Bormann's storyline, but him being purged by Bormann [[spoiler:is enough for Schirach and his co-conspirators to panic and believe that they'll be next, driving them to prepare for the June of Deceit plot.]]
* TheSpymaster: Müller becomes the Chief of the Ordnungspolizei under Bormann, which heads all of the Reich's police, secret police, and intelligence organizations, including the foreign intelligence agency Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung.
* TheStoic: Müller is a rather emotionless Nazi who rarely shows any passion or emotion in his tone, usually detatched from the political intrigue of the Reichstag.
* TortureTechnician: As head of the Orpo, Müller organizes the methodical torture and beatings of informants to extract confessions from them.

!! NSDAP officials
[[folder:Walther Hewel]]
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->'''Role:''' Reichsminister des Auswärtigen[[note]]Foreign Minister[[/note]] (Hitler and Bormann cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Konservativ Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party - Conservative Faction[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
->'''In-Game Biography (Reichsminister des Auswärtigen''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]In a world of foes both real and imagined, the Reich needs a politician capable of asserting its strength on the world stage. After the downfall of the incompetent Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler appointed his close friend and confidant Walther Hewel as the new Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs. A former coffee salesman, Hewel has scaled the greasy ladder of the Foreign Ministry to become the most important diplomat in the Einheitspakt.\n\nUnlike his boisterous predecessor, the shy and good-natured Hewel has sunk into the bureaucratic background as a tenacious and steadfast Conservative of the NSDAP. While he lacks the dynamic intelligence and independence necessary for being a great Reichsminister, his loyalty to the Führer is unmatched.[[/labelnote]]

* AffablyEvil: Hewel is shy and quite friendly to his peers, despite being a Nazi.
* AssholeVictim: After a brief period of clam [[spoiler:following the Second Night of Long Knives, Hewel, along with his wife, gets kidnapped by the RAF and shot in the head when their demands are not met.]]
* BlatantLies: In the middle of making a public speech about the recent political developments in the Reich, Hitler suddenly suffers from an amnesia attack and starts talking about attending someone's wedding and the defunct SA. As an aide leads Hitler away, Hewel takes the podium and claims that the Führer was "accidentally" given the wrong speech, leaving the foreign minister to awkwardly talk about how the Reich's diplomatic progression mirrors the story of the SA.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Hewel is married and, at one point, complains to Bormann about working overtime because he can no longer see his wife.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hewel is unnerved by Bormann's intent to betray the Polish and exterminate them, despite the fact that they surrendered and accepted his deal to become a semi-autonomous region to them.
* GunboatDiplomacy: Hewel advocates a confrontational foreign policy against Japan, conflicting with von Schirach's proposal of détente.
* MouthOfSauron: {{Downplayed}}. In the process of foreign investigations, Bormann can personally make some visits to spearhead negotiations, but he more often delegates that job to Hewel, who acts as Germany's representative.
* PetTheDog: Before an upcoming visit to the United States, Hewel wants to buy a Disneyland souvenir for his wife and even von Schirach, until a stern look from Bormann shuts him up.
* SacrificialLion: After Bormann seemingly realizes his dream of a prosperous Reich, [[spoiler:Hewel's execution by the RAF shakes those idealistic dreams and signals the "Herbst" period of instability and terrorist attacks across Germany.]]
* SycophanticServant: Generally unintelligent and would never dare question Bormann's word.
* UndyingLoyalty: Unfailingly loyal to Hitler and later Bormann, when he becomes Führer. [[spoiler:During Schirach's June of Deceit, Hewel is the only one in Bormann's cabinet to not join the conspiracy.]]

[[folder:Artur Axmann]]
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->'''Role:''' Reichsjugendführer[[note]]Foreign Minister[[/note]] (Göring cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Militarist Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Göring minister) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Artur Axmann is considered one of the first politicians wholly of the Nazi generation. Artur first joined the NSDAP in secondary school, becoming an exemplary member of the Hitler Youth. After his graduation from the youth ranks of the organization, Artur became Reichsjugendführer, and fully took upon his shoulders the responsibility of teaching the German youth of the greatness of National Socialism and of the German Reich. Notably, he was also responsible for conscripting members of the Hitler Youth into the German army.\\\
Always a patriot, Axmann also gave service to his country during the Second World War. He fought with the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, though was sadly forced to retire from this duty when he lost his arm in combat. Artur has known no life but that of a loyal Nazi since he was a child, and as such, remains totally and absolutely dedicated to the cause he has been brought up upon. As such, he is a clear symbol of the intelligence and dedication of the German children.[[/labelnote]]

* AnArmAndALeg: During his service in the Eastern Front, Axmann lost his right hand, forcing him to retire from duty.
* BlindObedience: Artur Axmann has been loyal to the NSDAP since he was a child and follows every order of Hitler, and later Göring, without question.
* ChildSoldiers: One of his more infamous responsibilities as Reichsjugendführer was to conscript young Germans into the Hitler Youth so they can fight in the Germany army.

->'''Role:''' Leader of Axmann's Clade (Bormann), Leader of the Orthodox Reactionaries (Speer)
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Leader of Axmann's Clade) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Artur Axmann was just a young man when Hitler became Chancellor, experiencing the glory of the National Socialist revolution and victory over the Bolsheviks. Since the assassination of Joseph Goebbels, Axmann has taken the reins of the Reactionary faction and installed himself as its political figurehead.\\\
This Clade believes that society has fundamentally regressed. The citizens are crippled by stagnation and economic woe, while their children's futures are gambled away by corrupt politicians. Axmann demands a return to the glory days of the 1940s, when everyone knew their place. Men were soldiers of the battlefield, the farms, and the factories, while women were warriors of the home. The youth loved their nation and their race, and the leadership served National Socialism above all else.\\\
For Axmann and his allies, the blame lies at the feet of the NSDAP. Bormann's corrupt conclave turns a blind eye while the lower echelons of the Party are stuffed with non-ideological opportunists. Change shall begin at the top.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Leader of the Orthodox Reactionaries) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Orthodox Reactionaries are the loosely grouped remnants of the original Reactionary clade which formed around Joseph Goebbels in the mid-1940s. Goebbels' assassination by Russian partisans in 1956 opened the clade's leadership to Arthur Axmann, who quickly established a new political program: German society has regressed, and is in need of systematic correction. The cure is to bring Germany back to the sunlit glory days of the 1940s, when hardline Hitlerism was the rule and reform was unthinkable. Complacency must be eradicated. Reform must be reversed. The un-ideological must be made ideological.\\\
Although niche, the Orthodox Reactionaries retain a certain appeal among members of the public alienated by Speer's reforms. To them, the offer to restore hardline Hitlerism, to dismantle youth subcultures, to wrench the social order into alignment, to rampage against any and all resistance, finally, sweeping the rot and gore away for the last time needed in a thousand years, links them arm in arm with the living will of their Führer, Adolf Hitler - the flesh and blood of German salvation.[[/labelnote]]

* DoWrongRight: He blames the corruption and regression of German society on the NSDAP, perceiving its higher echelons to be too corrupt to purge disloyal opportunists who have sullied the Reich's glory. For this reason, he serves as a rival to Bormann in his facelift teasers, being the figurehead of "Axmann's Clade".
* EvilReactionary: Axmann upholds extremely strict gender roles. As said in his clade's teaser, Axmann believes that the men must work or serve in the military, while the women stay at home and raise the next generation of soldiers.
* MeetTheNewBoss: According to one of the Bormann facelift teasers, Axmann took control of the NSDAP's reactionary faction after Joseph Goebbels was assassinated and he continues his predecessor's promotion of total loyalty to the Reich.
* StayInTheKitchen: He believes that women are only fit to perform domestic duties and raise the children, as seen in his clade's teaser.

!! Resistance

[[folder:Red Army Faction]]
->'''Ideology:''' Communism

* EvilVersusEvil: The RAF's most prominent victim is [[spoiler: Walther Hewel, who has served as Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs since Hitler sidelined Joachim von Ribbentrop.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: By 1962, the RAF is a very marginal group in Speer's support base, which is already not very large in the first place; in fact, they never come up or are mentioned in any events if Speer wins the civil war. It is not until the end of the first decade of Bormann's route that they can [[spoiler:kill Walther Hewel]], and potentially seize control over Germany later on as part of [=TNO2=] content.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite 20 years of continuous Nazi rule, the radical students that make up the heart of the Red Army Faction still managed to become communist militants, and, if Bormann wins the German civil war, they'll go underground and later turn the RAF into a terrorist group exactly like in real life.
* WesternTerrorists: Not different from real life, in Bormann's route, the RAF employs terror tactics like murders and bombings, culminating in the [[spoiler:kidnapping and eventual murder of Reichsminister Walther Hewel]].

!! ''Ulrike Meinhof''
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->'''Role:''' Leader of Red Army Faction, Head of State ([[spoiler:SS Civil War]])
->'''Party:''' Sozialistische Deutsche Einheitspartei[[note]]Socialist German Unity Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Partisan Movement[[note]]Despotism[[/note]] (Heydrich victory)
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* TheCoup: If Heydrich wins the Civil War, Meinhof survives to lead a remnant of Speer's loyalists. As Germany [[spoiler:falls into a second Civil War between SS commanders, she can lead a student uprising to overthrow Theodor Eicke, the SS-Obergruppenführer who established a fiefdom around Essen]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Despite being a significant figure among Germany's young radicals, she is still very marginal within the Reich as a whole, until she comes to lead the RAF in Bormann's route, or [[spoiler:lead the democratic resistance against the SS in Essen]] in Heydrich's path.
* KangarooCourt: In the aftermath of Heydrich's victory in the German Civil War, according to one account, Meinhof holds a mock trial before shooting or hanging [[spoiler:Theodor Eicke, after she leads the Speer supporters in Essen to topple his Ordensstaat]].
* SmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler: Should she take over Lothringen in the SS-Civil War, she would become the only female warlord in the Civil War.]]

[[folder:Antifaschistische Aktion]]
->'''Ideology:''' Socialism
Not everybody believed Führer Albert Speer's promises of reform and democracy blindly. Many used the Civil War as an opportunity to organize against the fascists who have ruled Germany for so long. Antifaschistische Aktion represents the core of the movement against fascism. Despite not having the popularity of the Reichsbanner or the effectiveness of Revolutionäre Zellen, they still pose a challenge to Speer in the more liberal territories of the Reich. However, while every victory against the NSDAP emboldens them and allows them to recruit more members, every victory also draws more and more attention of the German intelligence under Reinhard Gehlen.

* NotQuiteDead: Antifa as an organization was presumed to be dead following their forced disbandment during Hitler's rise to power. Subverted when Gehlen tells Speer that they are but a copycat organization that was established by more radical members of the student movements that followed Speer during the civil war.

!! ''Rudi Dutschke''
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->'''Role:''' Antifaschistische Aktion
->'''Ideology:''' Communism
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* ChummyCommies: Dutschke is a Marxist revolutionary and one of the most prominent members of the anti-Nazi resistance in the Speer facelift teaser.

[[folder:Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
->'''Ideology:''' Guevarism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]], Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]], Partisan Movement[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: Their name and leader, under the name "Spartakus" are mentioned in an early event during Speer's route, but only come into prominence during the late-game Slave Revolt.

!!''Willy Brandt''
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->'''Role:''' Leader of Reichsbanner Schwarz-[[red:Rot]]-[[gold:Gold]], Head of State (Slave Revolt)
->'''Ideology:''' Guevarism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]], Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]], Partisan Movement[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
See his entry in Characters/TNOEasternEurope under the Armeeverband "Freies Europa" section.

! Bohemia-Moravia
[[folder:Wehrkreis XIX]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Wehrkreis XIX[[labelnote:Tr.]]Military Region XIX[[/labelnote]]
->'''Ruling Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Abteilung Böhmen und Mähren[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party - Bohemia and Moravia Department[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is the German protectorate over former Czechia, and has only recently been fully integrated into the Reich. The territory is not fully controlled by any of the major factions in the court of German politics, but it, and more importantly its garrison, will swear fealty to whoever can win them over, opening up another front in the German Civil War.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: In real life, the villages of Lidice and Ležáky were razed to the ground, their residents massacred, under Hitler's orders as revenge for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. In this timeline, these very same villages are also burnt to the ground and massacred, as part of the SS's terror campaign.
* ChoosingNeutrality: If no one can get the Wehrkreis to side with them, the garrisons in Bohemia will declare their neutrality in the chaos, fortifying their position and remaining there until someone emerges victorious.
* {{Protectorate}}: Prior to the German Civil War, one of Hitler's successors can win the Wehrkreis to their side by promising them protection.
* SatelliteCharacter: Bohemia-Moravia's role in the plot entirely revolves around the German Civil War; it only fights alongside one of the factions in the German Civil War before getting either annexed or conquered by the winner.
* ShownTheirWork: The name "Wehrkreis XIX" refers to the Military District established over Böhmen und Mähren. When the protectorate joins the German Civil War on the side it chooses, it gets called this after the local garrison takes over the country to fight against the other contenders.

!!''Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Abteilung Böhmen und Mähren[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party - Bohemia and Moravia Department[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism, Fascism (Speer aligned)
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A conservative lawyer and disgraced former finance minister, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk is not the first man one would expect to be running any part of the Reich's vast territories. Appointed as Reich Minister of Finance by the hated von Papen, he managed to hold his position into and through the National Socialist takeover through a combination of keeping his head down and blindly following any order from Hitler, along with steadily managing the precious currency of the Reich during the years of massive spending. His competency, however, could not prevent the economic crash of the 1950s. His previous achievements on that field and even Hitler's respect, could not save his job.\\\
Demoted from his post as Reich Minister, he was bounced around numerous departments, becoming a wandering bureaucrat shuffling papers but eventually ended up becoming the Reichsprotektor of Böhmen und Mahren due to his rather soft and skillful hand in placating natives. As it turned out, he was the last in that position, as the Reichsprotektorat was formally annexed into the Reich in the early 1950s.\\\
Years after Reichsprotektorat annexation into the actual Reich borders, Krosigk emerged on the local political scene again, albeit this time as a Reichsverteidigungskommissar of Wehrkreis XIX, a local Wehrmacht command that took over after chaos engulfed the Reich. German Civil War participants had not yet managed to take over the rather small and neutral territory, but the future of such cordon - and the Reichsverteidigungskommissar with it - is rather bleak if things will fall apart under one of the contenders' wake.[[/labelnote]]

* NaziNobleman: As his full surname ''Graf Schwerin von Krosigk'' would indicate, Krosigk was born in a noble family before joining the NSDAP.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: After the 1950 crash, Krosigk was removed from his post as Minister of Finance and started being bounced around numerous departments, becoming a wandering bureaucrat shuffling papers. Finally, Hitler assigned him to govern Bohemia-Moravia, with the understanding that he is on thin ice.
* PragmaticVillainy: When he was appointed Reichsprotektor of Böhmen und Mahren, Krosigk ruled with a soft hand to placate the natives and dissuade them from rebelling, which worked as the region was eventually annexed into the Reich.

!!''Kurt Daluege''
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->'''Role:''' Head of Government (Krosigk Cabinet), Head of State (Heydrich aligned)
->'''Party:''' Befehlshaber der Waffen-SS Böhmen-Mähren[[note]]Commander of the Waffen-SS Bohemia-Moravia[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Esoteric Nazism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in a small Silesian town, Kurt Max Franz Daluege was always a German through and through, thriving in the military culture of the old empire. Daluege joined the Nazi Party in the early years, and soon moved onto the SS, serving as head of the Ordnungspolizei for many of the prewar years. It was a post perfectly suited for a sociopath such as himself, and Daluege was highly effective at crushing partisans and dissenters.\\\
So it was that when Daluege was sent to Bohemia after the defeat of the Soviet Union it felt, to him, as if he was being stripped of his rank for little reason. But despite his distaste for the position, Daluege was convinced that he would return to the centre of German politics soon enough, and so he continued to exercise a callous cruelty towards those he watched over. As Himmler undertook his coup, Daluege could do nothing but watch from his post in Prague. The return to central German politics never came.\\\
Lack of a position in the inner party did not truly put down Daluege, however. He has since built his network in Bohemia, even betraying SS principles and working with the Czech Resistance in the years after the West Russian War, allowing them to grow under his supervision and using them to undermine the garrison when he saw fit. When the civil war came, he called upon his network and chased the garrison out of Prague, declaring himself Oberstgruppenführer. There are few outside the SS who would support his coup, and the fanatical actions that are sure to follow.\\\
But in Daluege's eyes, he has has been shunned long enough by Germania. Let decadent fools shout across the continent. Daluege now holds the power in Bohemia, and nobody, not in his own realm, not in Germany, not even in Burgundy, is going to take it from him.[[/labelnote]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He only shows up to take over the Wehrkreis XIX and assist Heydrich during the German Civil War before disappearing without a trace [[spoiler:during the SS Civil War.]]

! German Facelift

!! NSDAP Officials

[[folder:August Eigruber]]
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->'''Role:''' Leader of the Social Revolutionaries (Speer)
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Nazism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Leader of the Social Revolutionaries) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Social Revolutionaries believe that the NSDAP should be a vehicle for the complete remaking of social and economic life. Economically, they aim to set up an unerringly corporatist economy reminiscent of Fascist Italy's. Socially, they aim to roll Party and society into one-the perfect Venn diagram of the Volksgemeinschaft. Old and decrepit institutions would be renewed or overturned, the weak and placid doldrum of Party life smashed, to build a new and living and vital national community.\\\
Social Revolutionaries are a vestigial presence institutionally. Besides Rudolf Jordan, the sympathizing face of the Speerite strand of the movement, only a few aging Gauleiters align with this tendency. However, the more "revolutionary" wing of the movement commands a large share of Speerite youth, many of whom regard the NSDAP as a corrupt institution in dire need of bottom-up renewal. Once the Alter Kämpfer dry up and die, it will probably be this wing of the movement who inherits the leadership of the Social Revolutionary clade.[[/labelnote]]

* TheRemnant: His collectivist version of Nazism has largely fallen out of favor in the 1960's, but Eigruber and a few sympathizers are shown in the clade's teaser, having not given up on the ideology just yet.
* VisionaryVillain: According to his clade's teased description, he sees the NSDAP as a tool for total social change, which will render social class meaningless and create a collective national whole as a "Volksgemeinschaft".

[[folder:Martin Pape]]
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->'''Role:''' Leader of the Social Revolutionaries (Speer)
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Leader of the Social Revolutionaries) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Speerite Social Revolutionaries, by and large, possess the youngest membership of any clade. These youths are often right-wing students or still-young veterans of the West Russian War. Many of them spent their late mid-to-late teens on the Eastern front, enduring conflict as their fathers did, or on the home front, where money was scarce and the future seemed dark and uncertain. For these youths, both experiences were but two sides of the same crisis, and that crisis was but a single sorrowful episode in the Lost Decade of the 1950s. In quiet moments, the youth would pause and think and ask themselves how it all came to this. They were the inheritors of the future the Führer won. More than that, the Führer had told them they were the future. Yet at the end of the decade, there were still no sunlit fields. They were not aloft on eagles' wings. Something had gone wrong. The promise had been betrayed.\\\
Rather than Hitler himself, the Speerite Social Revolutionaries came to blame the institutions of the NSDAP. These institutions, the activists often say, are corrupt, indolent, and overflowing with fake National Socialists. That is the symptom; the cure is a Second National Socialist Revolution. The old institutions will be washed out or torn down. And there will be no more compromises with businessmen, noblemen, or bureaucrats. Not one more bourgeois weakling will disgrace that sacred brown uniform. Nothing but to-the-root revolution. Nothing but what was promised. Nothing but that perfect and isotropic people's community which rolls all the nation into itself. Only that will redeem the Lost Decade - that and no other thing.[[/labelnote]]

* DoWrongRight: Disillusioned that the NSDAP did not grant their lofty promises to the Germans in the Speer clade teaser, Pape calls for a revolution to tear apart their current institutions and rechristen a second Nazi regime.
* NoTrueScotsman: Pape accuses the current NSDAP of employing "fake National Socialists", as said in the Speer clade teaser.
* RabbleRouser: In the Speer clade teaser, Pape leads a faction of young right-wing students and young West Russian War veterans. He channels their frustrations from Germany's struggles in the 50's to call for a Second National Socialist Revolution against the current NSDAP regime, believing that only Speer is capable of recovering Germany from the so-called "Lost Decade of the [=1950s=]".

!!''Wehrwirtschaftsführer''

[[folder:Otto Ambros]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of IG Farben

Head of IG Farben in the upcoming Speer facelift

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Among the markets mentioned in Ambros' teased description, IG Farben deals several legitimate businesses, including synthetic rubber for car tires and plastic toys for children. On the flip side, he dabbles in lethal chemical products that were used in the Holocaust to fuel the genocide.
* DeadlyGas: In his teased description, Ambros is described as being responsible for creating Zyklon B, the infamous gas that is used by the Nazis to sustain their campaign of ethnic cleansing.
* EvilGenius: As shown in his teased description, Ambros has created perversions of science that have led to the deaths of countless numbers of innocents.

[[folder:Paul Pleiger]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of Reichswerke

Head of Reichswerke in the upcoming Speer facelift. For tropes related to his role in Reichskommissariat Kaukasien, see his entry in Characters/TNOEasternEurope.

* EvilColonialist: In his teased description, Pleiger is shown to be responsible for the extraction of oil from the Reich's conquered Eastern territories.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Before World War II, Pleiger's specialty in iron extraction was relatively useless compared to the other corporations, only ever being called to rearm the war economy. According to Reichswerke's teased description, this all changed after Operation Barbarossa, where Germany needed them to extract the vast oil fields of Eastern Europe. Without them, Germany wouldn't nearly be as powerful.
* VetinariJobSecurity: In his teased description, Pleiger is described as being indispensable to the Reich, with the Reich dying without Reichswerke, and Reichswerke dying without Pleiger.

[[folder:Bodo Laffrentz]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of Volkswagen

Head of Volkswagen in the upcoming Speer facelift

* BoringButPractical: As described in his teased description, Laffrentz doesn't offer luxurious automobiles like Daimler-Benz does. However, the Volkswagen is cheap and reliable enough to make up the tradeoff and make it a powerful competitor to its fellow corporations.
* BreadAndCircuses: Whenever the NSDAP can't rely on their security services to quash dissent, they can always turn to Laffrentz, whose production of Volkswagen gives a cheap, yet enticing product for every German to own and keep them satisfied with the current reigning NSDAP. As their teased description states "With such a deal like that, why should they speak out against the men killing their neighbours?"

!! Resistance

[[folder:Student Movements]]
->'''Ideology:''' Liberalism

* EnemyMine: In the Speer facelift teaser, the student movements formed a temporary truce with the Speerites during the German Civil War so they can eliminate every other potential successor to Hitler. Once the conflict concludes, the students turn on Speer.
%%* {{NEET}}: Because of the extensive slave system, most German students can only go to school and don't really need employment or training, giving them ''way'' too much free time. As a result, students spend half their time partying, leading to cliques and youth groups; add in the natural liberal tilt of most universities and access to American media and Creator/KarlMarx's writings through the black market, this ultimately gives rise to the growing student movement.

[[folder:Revolutionäre Zellen '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
->'''Ideology:''' Communism
Usually, partisans and resistance fighters cooperate. Their fight is public. [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Not in the case of Revolutionäre Zellen]]. Their battle against the NSDAP resembles a surgeon's precise incisions. Isolated, rare but devastatingly effective, their attacks target all sectors of the state. The little information recovered from them come from pamphlets, yet they never, ever name their leader.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: The Revolutionäre Zellen existed in real-life West Germany between 1973 and 1995. The real RZ was a decentralized group formed by ex-RAF members in the 70s, while in TNO, RZ has a more centralized leader (who's an OTL Stasi spymaster) and forms several years earlier.
* WesternTerrorists: Just like their comrades in the RAF, they execute terrorist attacks all over Germany, albeit in a more secretive, discreet and effective way in the Speer facelift teaser.

!!''Markus Wolf''
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->'''Role:''' Leader of Revolutionäre Zellen
->'''Ideology:''' Communism

* AllohistoricalAllusion: In real life, Wolf was known as the man without a face, owing to his elusiveness and the lack of photographs taken of him for Western intelligence agencies and governments to identify him by. Here, his portrait is depicted as a faceless shadow, owing to how nobody outside the Revolutionäre Zellen knows his identity.
* TheFaceless: Unlike [[SlaveLiberation Brandt]] who wears a facemask and shades to conceal his identity, Wolf's portrait in the Speer facelift teaser is completely black since his identity is completely unknown outside of Revolutionäre Zellen.
* {{Foil}}:
** He and the Revolutionäre Zellen are heavily hinted as being this to Ulrike Meinhof and her radicals. While they in certain respects have mutual means and goals, right down to a penchant for terrorist attacks, they are much more discreet, precise and insidious. So much so, that not even their leader is known.
** He is also a personal foil to Willy Brandt, just as his organization is to Reichsbanner Schwarz-[[red:Rot]]-[[gold:Gold]], fitting given it was his spy network that disgraced and embarrassed Brandt's administration in our world. Both are mysterious figures and the heads of anti-Nazi rebel groups, and just as in real life both have been fighting the Nazis since even before the second world war. They even share socialist sympathies. However, while Reichsbanner Schwarz-[[red:Rot]]-[[gold:Gold]] seeks to recreate the Weimar Republic from before the fascists took power, Revolutionäre Zellen hopes to bring about a brave new communist state. Even their means of hiding are foils to one another; Brandt hides his identity behind a disguise and the nom-de-guerre of "Spartakus," while Markus Wolf prefers complete anonymity, ensuring neither his name nor his face is known to anyone who could possibly leak that information to his enemies.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Markus Wolf is best known in real life for being the head of UsefulNotes/TheStasi's foreign intelligence division, the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (''Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung'') from 1952 to 1986. In TNO, he's the elusive leader of the Revolutionäre Zellen terrorist group.
* TheSpook: According to the Speer facelift teaser, the Revolutionäre Zellen's pamphlets never, ever name their leader; no one outside the group knows who he might be.

* RegimeChange: One of the first things that both Speer and Bormann do after they win the Civil War is reintegrating the former Pakt members, especially its Reichskommissariate (which will usually fall to coups, revolutions, or civil wars), back into the Pakt. If the reintegration happens by coups or invasions, Germany will usually install a new German friendly government in these countries.

* TheDreaded: The most powerful country in Europe, Germany is not shy about invading smaller, neighboring countries if they cannot be cowed to submission. Thus, many of the neutral European countries are terrified of a German invasion and will do anything to prevent it, whether it be collaboration (Sweden) or bending to Europe's other great power in Italy (Switzerland).

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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 brought the Reich to the brink of economic and military collapse. As the new decade turns, Germany's status as a dominant world power is threatened by a dysfunctional economy reliant on slave labor and many enemies, both external and internal. As the Führer's life draws to an end, ambitious men plot to take over the crumbling empire by any means necessary.

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 brought the Reich to the brink of economic and military collapse. 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 many enemies, both external and internal. As the Führer's life draws to an end, ambitious men plot to take over the crumbling empire by any means necessary.

* SmarterThankYouLook: While he seems to be a PuppetKing under the militarists, Göring intends to build a clique of technocrats and scientists to mold the Reich to his ambitious vision, using his connections with Schumann to do so and implying that he wants to cut loose with his militarist masters.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Geilenberg may be a corrupt bureaucrat out of his depth as Wehrwirtschaftsführer, but he is party to no small number of atrocities and is the Wehrwirtschaftsführer who cooperated most intensely with the Old Order. [[spoiler: He is also a sincere Nazi, illegal US Stock trading aside, and will happily put his resources and that of his cartel at the disposal of militarist hardliners in order to safeguard his own power and stop what he views as excessive or corrupt reforms.]]

->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Leader of the New Guard (Speer), Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Göring cabinet), Head of State (Military Coup)

->'''Role:''' Leader of the Social Revolutionaries

->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Göring cabinet), Head of State (Military Coup)

->'''In-Game Biography''' (Göring Coup - Warning: Unmarked Spoilers)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Many called Schörner a failure. He failed to achieve the glory he truly desired in the World War, he failed to stomp the Russians and fill the power vacuum left by the SS in West Russia, and he failed to take control of the Wehrmacht after years of planning when the damnable Speidel betrayed him and destroyed his career. Schörner, however, is a man with a plan. Having followed Göring for as long as was necessary to once find himself with a significant amount of power, Schörner now fights for nobody but himself.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography (Göring minister)''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Artur Axmann is considered one of the first politicians wholly of the Nazi generation. Artur first joined the NSDAP in secondary school, becoming an exemplary member of the Hitler Youth. After his graduation from the youth ranks of the organization, Artur became Reichsjugendführer, and fully took upon his shoulders the responsibility of teaching the German youth of the greatness of National Socialism and of the German Reich. Notably, he was also responsible for conscripting members of the Hitler Youth into the German army.\\\

->'''Role:''' Leader of Axmann's Clade

* SmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler: Should she take over Lothringen in the SS-Civil War, she would become the only warlord in the Civil War.]]

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->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Konservativ Faction

->'''In-Game Biography (Reichsministerium des Innern)''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A grizzled veteran of both World Wars and the West Russian War, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Burgdorf has been a military man since he was assigned to the Prussian Army's Grenadier Regiment 12 in 1915. The 1930s saw him leaping up the ranks of the Wehrmacht and into the inner circle of Adolf Hitler, who Burgdorf served as Chief Adjutant. While some military officers keep their private thoughts to themselves, Burgdorf is notorious for wearing his heart on his sleeve. He supports Martin Bormann and the National Socialist state as virulently as he despises Jews, Catholics, Reformists and Militarists. If there is one thing he hates above all, however, it is defeatism.[[/labelnote]]

->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Konservativ Faction

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->'''Ideology:''' Reformed National Socialism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]], Transitioning Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (Gang of Four puppet), Idiosyncratic Nazism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]] (Oberländer puppet)
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Many things are said of Albert Speer, yet none can deny his ambition.\\\
Unlike many others, he did not join the NSDAP that fateful day in 1931 for the late Führer's fiery rhetoric. It was Adolf Hitler's calm and collected speech given during a rally in Berlin that intoxicated the young architect, leading him to join the Party the year after.\\\
What started as a favor to a fellow member became a recommendation to Joseph Goebbels; the recommendation became a commission to renovate the local NSDAP headquarters. Before long, he had drawn the personal interest of the Führer. Hitler became a passionate admirer of his vision, and together they drafted plans of a new Germany.\\\
By the war's end, Speer was a close friend of the Führer, presided over his own ministry and touted a reputation as the man who transformed the Reich's economy into a war-winning machine. No matter the cost of life, the dream of a new Germany had been realized. Reputation is rarely truth - but he made sure that everyone knew of his.\\\
It was in the midst of Germania's construction that the economy crashed, and his lofty dreams with it. Pinning the blame was easy. Slavery, the very system Speer created to win the war, doomed Germany in peace. It was an unprecedented disaster - one that Speer could not ignore. The Reich and Volk deserved greatness. His dreams deserved reality. Reform was necessary.\\\
Years of open criticism of NSDAP policy followed, and he soon found himself somewhere unexpected once again: as the figurehead of the largest reform movement Germany had seen in decades. Speer's ambitious goals and reputation as a dissenter enveloped countless of young dreamers and old rivals around him in a political maelstrom unlike any other.\\\
And as he now walks this perilous tightrope he crafted, he balances not only his own future but also that of the Reich.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Assertive Reformist) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]No longer was Albert Speer merely the architectural genius behind many of Hitler's grandiose plans. No longer was Albert Speer the Minister of Armaments and War Production during Germany's finest hour. He was not the side-character who pulled Germany out of failure when it sunk to its depths before he took the reins. No longer was Albert Speer the political webspinner and silver tongue that got a loose alliance of vaguely-loyal liberals and yesmen to back him as he spun an image of being a reformist force. Albert Speer was no longer the "good" National Socialist.\\\
Now he stands as the representation of a new National Socialism, fit to serve the modern era, and the modern man.\\\
The fruitless endeavors of the past NSDAP - the need to exterminate the East, to turn Germany into the ultimate pariah state, to close it off utterly and let it wallow in bitter autarky. None of those policies belonged in his vision of a new Reich. His Einheitspakt and his Zollverein would be a well-oiled machine, propagating German domination not through wasteful pits of death that would only antagonize its colonies, but instead through a showcase of cultural, moral, economic and military supremacy. As Germany soars with a bureaucracy purified of degenerate liberals and bloodthirsty hardliners, Albert Speer finds himself at the top as the architect unmatched.\\\
Hitler may have set the grounds for Germany's wings to fly high, but Speer will make sure that it will fly victorious.\\
[[red:Forever.]][[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Gang of Four Puppet) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]National Socialism has failed. It has failed all of the challenges it has met, and it is now doomed to extinction... and who is to blame?\\\
Albert Speer finds himself with daggers pointed everywhere around him, but he knows that it is the NSDAP that has ruined him; the liberals that have degraded the moral fiber of German society; the wretched Gang undermining him every step of the way. How he ever could have trusted those three; Tresckow, Erhard, and most especially Schmidt - it was beyond him. Most days he spends staring blankly in his office, absent-mindedly shuffling paper after paper, knowing that the power of the Führer is merely a ploy. If only he had played his cards better.\\\
As the future begins to leave the architect behind, and his vision yet fades while the NSDAP falls apart, a new path has opened up, promising many things, though nobody can say for sure what it will contain. As countless Germans still march against National Socialism, they demand something robbed from them half a century ago. Something Speer is deathly afraid will crush Hitler's dream now and forevermore. The calls for elections, for the abolishment of permanent posts, the rallying call of what was once a delusion, now rapidly approaching reality...\\\
Democracy.\\\
Albert Speer has failed. Or so it may seem. A defanged and depowered Führer delegated to mere rubber stamping, with eyes surrounding him and watching his every move, and yet, at the same time, the Gang treats him as a fool and a puppet, a disgrace to Hitler's vision and nobody of importance.\\\
[[red:How foolish they are.]][[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Oberländer Puppet) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]There was a time where Albert Speer could stand in front of a podium on a crowd of thousands and speak words that would get any normal German man ousted as a traitor, and shot for cowardice and Bolshevism. Of course, he never was committed to most of what he had said, merely words spoken to rile up his base and strengthen his support. Yet Albert Speer overestimated his prowess, and underestimated the hardliners.\\\
What fate awaited him at the hands of the Gang of Four was now merely a passing thought. His worries of being a puppet to the liberalistic whims of the students seemed almost like paranoia now, as he follows the orders of Theodor Oberländer and his clique in the NSDAP. His image as the 'reformer' of the Reich has dissolved, and all the remains is a man whose vision has been stomped underfoot by the degeneration of National Socialist ideology.\\\
There are no more days where Albert Speer can smile and think to himself that he is building a new Reich, for the new German man. Now he follows orders and attempts to slow the grinding crusher that will tear his ideology into pieces. He cannot imagine that Adolf Hitler would look at him and consider his achievements worthy of respect.\\\
Not anymore.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Hitler cabinet) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Albert Speer is a silver-tongued politician, knowing what to say on just the right occasion; an expert in getting people over to his side with honeyed words and promises tempered by his background as Minister of Armaments and War Production in the Second World War. Under his reign as the Minister of Economics, however, the economy has seen a steady decline, from the massively inefficient post-war economic system of slavery showing its undeniable flaws, to the general sensation of stagnation in Nazi policies. Yet, even though Speer was arguably one of if not the most important man responsible for engineering the mass slavery in Germany's colonies, today he speaks against the same creation he partook in and encouraged.\\\
After a period of moderate obscurity in the '50s, Speer began an intensive campaign of rallying his support. His supporters are the apathetic men and women who lost their jobs or had their family killed in wars, the technocrats and the reform-minded NSDAP members, the disillusioned National Socialists who were not awarded their promised Aryan utopia, and as a token yet active minority, and the small but slowly growing group of students banking on Speer as their only hope for more radical reform. Each hopes for a different facet of Speer's promises, but nevertheless create a shaky united front of 'reformed' National Socialists.[[/labelnote]]

Germany's chief architect, minister of armaments, and a close personal aide of the Führer. Disappointed by Hitlerist economy's inefficiencies, which he, as the slave system's creator, partially caused, Speer publicly pushes for systematic reforms that go against the Party's overwhelmingly conservative trend. His appeals eventually coalesced into a reformist political faction under his lead, with supporters ranging from reformist old guards to liberal student activists. Facing diverse supporters with diverse demands, only time will tell which vision of Germany will Speer pursue should he come to power.

* AllForNothing: If the Gang of Four [[spoiler:have their way, Speer's reformist pretensions and drive to stay in power ultimately lead to him becoming nothing more than a glorified figurehead, while they proceeds to undo the Nazi dream. It's also possible for something similar to happen in the Fascism route, with him becoming a puppet of Oberländer's hardliners should the latter grow too powerful.]]
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** If he lost to Bormann in the civil war, Speer flees to the United States as a political refugee, where he writes ''Inside the Third Reich'', an autobiography which whitewashes himself and denies his complicity in the Reich's crimes, just like what the real Speer did after he served his 20-year prison sentence following the end of the war.
*** In exile, Speer can be assassinated with an ice pick much as UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky was in real life; Trotsky himself was was killed with a sledgehammer in [=TNO=].
** All of the generals that fight for Speer's Germany during the Civil War and afterwards [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/mwapi0/which_of_speers_gcw_generals_tried_to_kill_hitler/ all played a role in OTL's July 20 plot]].
** In Speer's Reformed National Socialism path, the reinvigorated Nazi Germany bears more than a passing resemblance to the People's Republic of China after Deng Xiaoping's passing: purged of the worst excesses of the Nazi ideology, yet carrying on everything else in a much more insidious, subtle manner.
* TheAlternet: Albert Speer's Germany will eventually create the [=NetzRAM=] ("[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/ic47d3/what_does_netzram_actually_stand_for/g23ca33/ Netzwerk des Reichsamtes für Militärforschung]]"), an equivalent to the ARPANET that connects all computing devices in universities and government offices across the Reich.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Speer ultimately is far more ambitious than Bormann and his conservatives, and desires to create an efficient Nazi Germany that can lead the world as a true fascist superpower.
* TheAtoner: Part of Speer's motivation for reforming the Reich is his personal regret for his role in creating the slave system. It's not solely for moral reasons, though: a paid laborer with legal personhood and a separate employer are easier to tax than a MegaCorp who already pays so little.
* TheBadGuyWins: If Speer [[spoiler:successfully manages to resist both the Gang of Four and the Nazi hardliners and institute his true Fascist Reich, he will create a Nazi Germany that is actually terrifyingly efficient, giving him a ''very'' good chance to ''win'' the Cold War and lead Fascism into the modern age.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Speer hopes to present an image of reform and change through propping up the Gang of Four. If he's not careful, [[spoiler:he would get [[GoneHorriblyRight more than what he bargained for]] and wind up unwittingly bringing an end to Nazism.]]
* BeingGoodSucks: While "good" is a more relative concept concerning Speer, he is still the most liberal and reform-minded candidate for the Führership, and that's what makes him an enemy to many people in Germany, who will try to sabotage his actions and remove him from power. This is eventually subverted when it is revealed that Speer has never been reforming out of the good of his heart, but instead to strengthen his own power and save the Reich. He feels bad not because the "good things" he's doing are hard, but because his liberalizations are taking away his own powers.
* BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler:Speer is usually unflappably calm and composed...until the Slave Revolt, at which point he absolutely ''snaps'', descending into deranged antisemitic rants and fantasizing about crushing the rebels with military force.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: Speer for most of the mod's development and even in the mod itself is depicted as the main hope for liberalizing Germany. Speer seemingly is the one Reich leader who can put Germany on the path towards democracy [[spoiler:...except as it happens, the path that leads to the return of democracy to Germany is also the one where he becomes a PuppetKing to the Gang of Four, and Speer himself is dragged to the point of maximum liberalization kicking and screaming, angrily declaring the democratization [[EvilCannotComprehendGood an utter betrayal of Nazism.]]]]
* EarnYourBadEnding: In the Fascist path, Speer not only has to contend with the Gang of Four, but also ensure that Oberländer's hardliners know their place, or else wind up as ''their'' PuppetKing. [[spoiler:It takes a considerable effort, but it ''is'' possible for him to emerge as the unquestioned ruler of Nazi Germany, free to conduct his greatest engineering "project" of all and ensure that fascism would be seen as a viable ideology by the rest of the world, instead of a discredited one like in real life.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Speer's path allows one to reform Nazi Germany and put it onto the path for Democracy (the Paternalist path), but it's a hard one riddled with numerous obstacles, as he has many enemies spread across the country who resist any of his attempts at reforms even after the Civil War. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that this trope does not actually apply to Speer, but to the Gang of Four, the genuine reformers in his cabinet; Speer himself remains committed to fascism and has no desire to create a democratic Germany. There's a crucial distinction between Germany's best ending (in which the Gang turns Speer into their puppet and begins the Reich's transition to democracy) and Speer's personal best ending (in which he sidelines the Gang and has the freedom to build his Thousand-Year Reich).]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: When the Gang of Four [[spoiler:coup Speer, it seems like Germany is safely on the path to democracy, but Speer's bio hints that he's not out of the game just yet and may try to wrest power back from his former cabinet.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Regardless of which path Speer goes down, he has ''no'' love for Himmler or his plans. He thus has no qualms with invading Burgundy to finally put an end to the SS once and for all.
* EvilAllAlong: By 1972, Speer is revealed to be, at the end of the day, committed to his own "efficient Fascist" vision of National Socialism above all else, and would do anything to suppress reform if it gets out of hand and starts pulling Germany away from Nazism. [[spoiler:TheReveal of his true nature comes after the Slave Revolt - in the Fascist path, Speer forces the Gang of Four to follow the party line, refuses the democratisation proposals by the rebels, and reaffirms his commitments to Fascism, and while he can still establish the [[FictionalUnitedNations Koalition der Nationen]], [[https://i.redd.it/ju3x1ftgz2d51.png the event which he does so]] reveals his intentions are to empower Germany as the head of a global power bloc, [[PragmaticVillainy to effectively conquer the world with diplomacy when his opponents would try and fail with warfare]], going so far as to [[VillainousLegacy believe he is acting as the true heir to Adolf Hitler's throne]]. In the [=AuthDem=] path, where the Gang of Four reduces Speer to their pen pusher, he berates himself for "failing" the cause of National Socialism.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: In the [[spoiler:Paternalist path, the Gang of Four's reforms will set Germany on the road to proper democracy, but Speer is miserable because he feels that such reforms have dealt a deathblow to National Socialism.]]
* FactionMotto: In the [[spoiler:final Slave Revolt resolution]] tree for the 60s content for Speer, the two branches of the tree both feature three mirroring focuses that are named after the national mottos of Nazi Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany, corresponding to the Speer path ("Ein Volk", "Ein Reich", "Ein Führer") and the Gang of Four path ("Einigkeit", "Recht", "Freiheit") respectively.
* FateWorseThanDeath: In the [[spoiler:Paternalist and National Socialist paths. He's stuck as a defanged PuppetKing and has to watch as either the Gang of Four completely dismantle the Nazi dictatorship, or as Oberländer's clique reverses the reforms and once again sets Germany on the path to ruin, and in either case, no one will help him.]]
* FullCircleRevolution: Speer's end goal in the Fascism path is revealed to be this, in effect. He has no real intention of actually instituting a democratic government. Instead, he uses a reformist veneer to re-engineer Nazi Germany in ''his'' image of Nazism.
* InternalReformist: The more charitable view of Speer places him as an Internal Reformist (in contrast to him as a PragmaticVillain), as he tries to eradicate the worst excesses of the Nazi system, such as slavery, racist policies, and saber-rattling militarism, and seems to have some regrets over some of the evils he's created. [[spoiler:This is {{Subverted}} following the slave revolt, as Speer reveals that his reforms are not genuine and are made in an attempt to bolster his own power. His "regrets" are not out of personal reasons and actually out of pragmatism.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Should he lose the CivilWar to Bormann and flee to the United States, he'll write a book attempting to absolve himself of his involvement with the regime. Bormann, later in his focuses, has the option to have him assassinated, either making the execution public or making him disappear discreetly.
* TheLastDJ: Speer's reformist views are completely unacceptable in pre-Civil War German politics, and he is widely hated by the other factions, but as a personal confidant of Hitler, there is nothing they can do to get rid of him, at least until Hitler is no longer a concern.
* 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, though it has been confirmed that he is genuinely remorseful for creating the slave system. He's regretful, but primarily because it gets in the way of his dreams for his fascist utopia, and that a paid laborer with legal personhood is far easier to tax. He is ultimately still A Lighter Shade of Black, but because he is a PragmaticVillain and not because he is an InternalReformist.
* LongGame: Many of Speer's policies are geared towards both the long-term survival of Germany as a superpower and the codifying of a Reformed National Socialism that would far outlast him.
* LonelyAtTheTop: In a very ironic sense. [[spoiler:Should either the Gang of Four get their way or Oberländer emerge triumphant, Speer is reduced to a powerless figurehead. Though nominally master of the Reich, he has no one to help him and lacks sufficient support within the government to exert his authority. He is thus, utterly alone.]]
* MeetTheNewBoss: Speer can reorganize Eastern Europe into a series of Reichsländer, which are puppet states with native fascist collaborator governments that have limited self-rule but are still treated as integral parts of the Greater Germanic Reich; in essence, [=RKs=] with a coat of "native rule" paint.
* NeverMyFault: A consistent trait of Speer through both OTL and TNO. Speer is always happy to showcase and denounce the crimes committed by Bormann, Göring, and Heydrich, but he never admits his personal involvement in the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities, correctly assuming that it wouldn't help his image as an open-minded reformer.
* OnlySaneMan: Between the status quo candidate and protector of slavery, the military expansionist, and the batshit insane Spartanist, Speer actually gives Germany the best chance to remain as a superpower in the Cold War, as well as avoiding nuclear war. He's also the only one of the Reich's would-be rulers who's aware of how Orthodox National Socialism is doomed to fail [[spoiler:although he doesn't intend to liberalize in any form]].
* PragmaticVillainy: The less charitable view of Speer places him as a Pragmatic Villain (as opposed to an InternalReformist). He performs needed reforms against corruption and cuts back on the worst excesses of the Nazi system to strengthen the fascist Reich and prevent it from future collapse. This is the real personality of Speer, a man who is willing to both enact reforms and then betray these reforms to protect National Socialism. [[spoiler:This becomes obvious in 1972 following the slave revolt, since Speer tries to crack down on the slave revolt by force and roll back some of his reforms because they are now threatening his power. Him being puppeted by Oberländer also shows his pragmatic evil side as he pains over the fact that Oberländer will just drag Germany back into ruins.]]
* PuppetKing: Führer Speer [[spoiler:can eventually become a puppet of either the Gang of Four or the NSDAP's hardline conservatives led by Theodor Oberländer. In the game, when this happens, Germany's ideology (and Speer's, by extension) changes from National Socialism to Oligarchy or Idiosyncratic Nazism, representing the Gang of Four's and the Oberländer clique's views (respectively), instead of Speer's.]]
* ThePurge:
** Early on in Speer's route, Speer launches a purge of his opponents in the party through a series of show trials by a specially-convened ''Sondergericht''.
** In his Fascist route, [[spoiler:he prepares to kill Schmidt and sidelines the rest of the Gang of Four. In the Paternalist route, he fails and is threatened to sit down or his involvement with Nazi atrocities will be revealed to the world.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: During Schmidt's negotiations [[spoiler:with Brandt in the Slave Revolt, Speer can sic his men to sabotage the meeting and arrest all those involved. At first, Speer boasts about having triumphed over the Gang of Four after years of perpetual fighting with them, but him taking a hardliner stance against the slaves gives the conservatives enough power to overtake Speer's and turn them into his PuppetKing, effectively rendering his victory null.]]
* RebelLeader: Speer is seen by dissident students as the leader of the resistance against the conservative establishment and as an embodiment of the values of free Germany. Of course, Speer is a bit more complicated than that, but he is a favorite of the rebellious youth who are ready to die for him if necessary.
* RepressiveButEfficient: Speer's ultimate goal is to reform the Reich in his vision of fascism, deprived of its most self-destructive insanity, but still possessing its worst ideological qualities. Unlike Hitler's Reich before it, Speer's Reich is not a total disaster that trips on itself. If Speer succeeds in sidelining both the Gang of Four and the Nazi hardliners, his Nazi Germany stands a very good chance to win the Cold War and remain a superpower well into the 21st century.
* SanitySlippage: The more [[spoiler:that the Gang of Four strips Speer of his powers and renders him their puppet, the more angered and unhinged Speer grows. It's to the point where he imagines and daydreams himself killing Schmidt.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If he loses the German Civil War, Speer flees to the United States before his underlings formally announce their surrender.
* SequelHook: His new bio [[spoiler:in the Gang of Four ending hints that he may still have ambitions at regaining power.]]
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Speer's initial portrait has him wearing a civilian suit. [[spoiler:If he manages to hold onto power, his 70s portrait has him wearing a brown NSDAP uniform. If he becomes a puppet (of either the Gang of Four or the hardliners), he continues wearing a civilian suit in the 70s.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Speer's faction consists of pragmatic reformers like himself as well as younger radicals and supporters of democracy who disagree with him on certain issues but see him as the best opportunity for reforming the Reich. While Speer and his radical support base can't exist without each other, their unresolved differences can prove to be their mutual undoing.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Speer rapidly goes off the deep end [[spoiler:as the slave revolt commences and ''especially'' if the Gang of Four beats him in the power struggle, attempting and failing to kill Schmidt, and being reduced to a PuppetKing as a result.]]
** If he loses power [[spoiler:to the conservative faction, Speer becomes completely withdrawn, dejected by the fact that his own party will undo all of the pragmatic reforms he previously implemented and slowly doom Germany through their wasteful attempts to revitalize the old, corrupt Nazi ideology.]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: An otherwise competent example, but he mainly sees Germany and its place in the world as one giant engineering "project" that he could tweak and modify to his heart's content, whether others want it or not. This is true whether it's in the [=AuthDem=] or Fascist path.

[[folder:Martin Bormann]]
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->'''Role:''' Parteiminister[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Hitler cabinet), Head of State (German Civil War victor)
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - Konservativ Faction[[note]]National Socialist German Workers' Party - Conservative Faction[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialist Orthodoxy[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Nazism has always relied primarily on two things: nationalistic sympathies towards one's own nation, and a central strongman smart enough to trample his enemies in the political game and sway the masses. None of Hitler's potential successors embodied this more than Martin Bormann; who learned closely from The Führer in his time as his secretary and strives to emulate him in every way. In doing so; Bormann has honed in on the nationalistic sentiments of the population to convince them that he is the only man in the Reich able to keep them safe and their nation secure. Often calling himself the 'Second Hitler' to cheering masses as he fed them exactly what they wanted.\\\
The political arena has proven to be less of a battlefield and more of a shooting gallery to Bormann as well. While Bormann oft paints himself as an anti-intellectual and a simpler man to the masses, in the Reichstag he has proven himself to be a fierce negotiator, power player and deceiver to many. While Germany is divided between himself and the others who dared fight him, the Reichstag has always been firmly under his boot. Truly, if politics could win wars, then Bormann would have long ago conquered the world.[[/labelnote]]
->'''70's In-Game Biography''' (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The Brown Kaiser sits on his bloody throne in the heart of Germania as the Party fawns before him. His opponents are dead. The Reformists, the Militarists, the dissident Conservatives – all have been extinguished. The institutions that threatened his rule have been annihilated. Bormann is Germany, and Germany is Bormann.\\\
Yet the clockwork of the bureaucratic apparatus grows rusty and stiff. His Party comrades gaze at him not with respect or love, but pure fear. Mass protests, violent riots and deadly terrorist attacks have seized the nation and refused to let go. The threat to the east looms ever larger, and the recent cancer diagnosis raises the grim question:\\\
Who will succeed the Führer?[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Hitler cabinet) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The masses cheer Hitler, the army salutes Göring, and the intellectuals admire Speer's oppressive architecture. Yet how many Germans would recognise Parteiminister Martin Bormann, the little grey man lurking in the Führer's shadow?\\\
Men of grand goals often boast humble beginnings. Born to a postman at the turn of the century, Martin Bormann lived through the First World War to become an estate manager of a farm. Violence was never far behind the young man. He was imprisoned for assisting the brutal murder of a school teacher, became a treasurer for the Freikorps, and leapt into the SA with thuggish vigor. An obsessive administrator with bureaucratic finesse, Bormann eventually joined Hitler's Inner Circle as the Chief of the Party Chancellery.\\\
Over the last two decades, the Brown Eminence has weaved a web of deception, bribery, and blackmail, coalescing power around himself with appointments, promotions, and firings. He sits at the heart of this web, smoking a cigar, fawning pathetically before his superiors while treating his subordinates like cattle. His opponents consider him a crude and uncultured parvenu who has transformed the NSDAP into his own corrupt plaything; his supporters preach loyalty so long as they can maintain their positions of power. While despised by many, the Parteiminister has entrenched his position by standing firm against the growing forces of revision and reaction.\\\
As the Führer's health fails, will the Brown Eminence finally step out of the shadows?[[/labelnote]]

The Parteiminister of the NSDAP, Bormann is a political veteran and one of the Führer's closest confidants. Acting as the the leading voice of Party conservatives, Bormann has wide-ranging support amongst the many strata of the German society. Yet politics, like war, is no simple affair: even if Bormann comes to power, he will have to triumph over disagreeing voices both within and without Germania, to truly live up to his promises of stabilizing the Reich.

* AbusiveParent: He is extremely neglectful of his eldest son, Martin Bormann Jr. When he disappears during the South African War, his father expresses no concern on his whereabouts and refuses to see him when he returns, dismissing him as a failure.
* AllForNothing: Played with. Upon learning that he has [[spoiler:at best only two more years to live due to terminal lung cancer, it sinks in for Bormann that he doesn't have enough time to keep the Reich going, and that all he's really done is delaying the inevitable. That said, he still tries, even if in vain, to find a way to ensure the survival of his Thousand Year Reich.]]
* TheAlternet: Later down Bormann's path, he will fund an alternate version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn Project Cybersyn]] known as the Entscheidungsnetzwerk, connecting all the Reich's major economic centers into a single centralized digital network to assist in economic decision-making and improve the Reich's economic efficiency.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Bormann is always hungry for power and, by the end of his campaign, he will concentrate even more power to the Führership than even Hitler did.
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs, and more specifically, bulldogs. Bormann is described as rather [[TheNapoleon short and stout, making his authority loudly known thanks to a short temper]] and wanting to keep an edge against his perceived rivals. This is especially present with the events where the US Presidents meet with him, who usually make comparisons between him and bulldogs. He even has a pet bulldog of his own, named "Adolf."
* AssassinOutclassin: In the Anti-Military Dismantlement path, Schörner tries to assassinate Bormann with a rigged car bomb, but the Führer's Orpo agents save his life.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Entscheidungsnetzwerk or "Cybersyn" is an incredible system that can help balance the national budget, but any disturbance to it, [[spoiler:like the Oil Crisis]], will be enough to render it crippled, making Bormann's dream of an economist-less economy realistically unfeasible.
* BadBoss: Just like Hitler before him, Bormann is an unpleasant man to work under, having little patience for failure and having his men possibly executed if he's sufficiently angered.
* BaldOfEvil: Bormann was already balding in the last years of his life IRL. By 1962 in TNO, he is completely bald.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Bormann sees himself as the continuation of Hitler, and acts accordingly to live up to that image. [[spoiler:By 1972, he can find himself in a very similar situation to his predecessor, dying of cancer while the Reich is debilitated by widespread riots and terrorist attacks.]]
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: [[spoiler:Especially once the Opulence happens, Bormann falls for his own propaganda of being an untouchable, unstoppable Führer. Coincidentally, this also marks the point wherein the flaws of Orthodox National Socialism really start rearing their head, setting the stage for the "Herbst" and the Reich's instability.]]
* BerserkButton: True for [[TheNapoleon a short fascist dictator]], his height is one for him. If Bormann visits President [=LeMay=] in the White House, the latter goes straight for it by calling him "Little Martin" and "squirt" to his face, at which Bormann immediately loses his composure utterly and breaks into angry, shrill screaming and making death threats.
* BlatantLies:
** During reconstruction after the civil war, Bormann lifts all restrictions on smoking, even falsely claiming that Hitler told him on his deathbed that "Smoke does not harm the Aryan body". Nobody questions this obvious lie.
** If Bormann wins the civil war and Speer escapes to the United States, the latter will publish a book to reveal Bormann's lecherous nature and sexual predation. To his inner circle, Bormann angrily denounces these claims as lies, even though there are several events showing otherwise.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Bormann can monitor all of his citizens through the Orpo's surveillance and he even cultivates this image by planting propaganda posters of himself everywhere, giving the impression that he's always overlooking the people.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Bormann's [[spoiler:1972 portrait has blood stains from hemoptysis on his collars--a symptom of progressing lung cancer]].
* BookEnds: An early event during Bormann's tenure follows a young German excitedly watch the propaganda cartoon ''Heil Zeit!'', glorifying the Führer as a superhero defending the Reich from its enemies. [[spoiler:In the last few events of the Opulence, the same boy grows up to be a teenager, now seeing through the lies of the Nazi regime and joining the protestors' chant "Fuck Bormann, fuck the Nazis!"]]
* BoringButPractical: Unlike Speer's borderline revolutionary Gang of Four, Bormann's reforms are relatively mundane. Instead of freeing the slaves (or adopting them into "Führer's Own" work battalions), Bormann simply repatriates the slaves (technically freeing them and sending them to their country of origin where they'll be working for low wages out of sight) and promotes Germans to get the jobs in Germany. Instead of dismantling the corporations and taking them over via threats, while actively pumping money into small businesses and nationalization, Bormann makes deals with said megacorps and reins in their power with sweet talk, leaving the German capitalist system alone. [[spoiler:He will take over some corporations, but only if their leaderships are revealed to be plotting against him]]. Rather than doing revolutionary research projects and setting up the Internet, he funnels money into a computerized "decision network" to patch up the leaks in the economic system and increase efficiency. Unlike Speer, who will either change the world for the better [[spoiler: thanks to his subordinates puppeting him, or cement fascism]], Bormann fixes the leaks in the boat and stops the rocking. And it works almost as good as Speer's. [[spoiler:Until the Opulence hits, and Bormann begins truly indulging in excess. Then the RAF starts its rampage.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: In 1972, [[spoiler:it's implied that Bormann is all but broken when finding out about his terminal lung cancer, especially upon realizing that he simply wouldn't have enough time to avert the Reich's seemingly inevitable spiral towards collapse once he dies.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Bormann's abolishment of Hitler's ban on smoking seems irrelevant at first, but it becomes relevant in 1972 when [[spoiler:Bormann is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Bormann's Germany currently ends with the [[spoiler:arrival of Herbst and Bormann getting diagnosed with terminal cancer. With his house of cards collapsing around him, and getting informed of his cancer by his doctor, Bormann simply stays silent and declares:]]
-->'''Bormann:''' "I've made up my mind. A Thousand Years is not enough. A Thousand Years will never be enough."
* CorruptPolitician:
** To ensure the loyalty of the Orpo, Bormann illicitly offers them large sums of cash as a "reward for their service".
** After dismantling Siemens for their role in the Reformist Plot, Bormann will bribe their assets to the other three megacorporations in exchange for their loyalty. All other independent buyers, who aren't so easily swayed by money, will be kept loyal through blackmail of their dirtiest secrets.
* CruelMercy: If Bormann orders the HVA to assassinate Kiesinger and Erhard, Kiesinger is paralyzed from the neck down while Erhard flees the continent. Bormann then calls off the hunt, pardons Kiesinger and leaves him to his fate.
* CultOfPersonality: Bormann cultivates a strong cult of personality around him just like Hitler before him, and there is a series of events in Bormann's Germany showing that he has created a children's TV show called ''Heil Zeit!'' that turns him into a superhero who protects the Reich from its enemies like Göring.
* CuttingCorners: One of his more foreboding responses to [[spoiler:the Oil Crisis is to build Hochleistungskanalreaktors, or high-power channel type reactors, that are cheap to build, but very unstable and could easily blow up in the Reich's face, if the solution goes wrong.]]
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: By the beginning of the 1970s, [[spoiler:Bormann's smoking has led to lung cancer and his health hasn't been improved by his growing paranoia after the assassination of Walther Hewel, as he can barely get any sleep due to his nightmares of an assassin lunging at him too. By the end, Bormann is a tired, old man who has no more than two years to live.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: It turns out that [[spoiler:enacting two widescale purges in just a decade eliminate most of your competent and powerful supporters, leaving a massive power vaccuum for anti-Nazi resistance movements to fill in and begin launching terrorist attacks.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Bormann is in his 60s, but he continues to have a promiscuous life behind closed doors, even boasting about [[SexualExtortion using his Führer position to take advantage of female employees and young actresses, whether they want it or not]].
* DoNotGoGentle: A villainous example. [[spoiler:Even after learning of his cancer diagnosis and that he'd have only two more years left to live, he still refuses to let go of the Nazi dream of a Thousand-Year Reich, however impossible it increasingly becomes.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: {{Subverted}}. Both his allies and enemies insultingly call him "the Brown Eminence", but Bormann doesn't care, being more focused on his duties than his character.
* EnemyMine: In the immediate reconstruction of the civil war, Bormann must side with either Speidel or Schörner to sideline the other and solidify control of the Wehrmacht. Bormann doesn't like either of them, but he'll have to form a truce if is to rule as Führer.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Upon being informed of Schmidt's exile to the United States and protection under the FBI, Bormann deduces these facts as evidence of Schmidt being an American spy, sent to sabotage the Reich by helping Speer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{ZigZagged}}. He remembers fondly of his wife Gerda, but ultimately thinks of her as a tool to breed more for the Aryan race. He also doesn't inquire about the disappearance of his son, Martin Bormann Jr., after his participation in the South African War, only recognizing that he had served Germany well. However, when he learns that his son actually survived and has returned to Germany years later, Bormann is genuinely stunned, but he tells the messenger, Gerhard Klopfer, to just release his son, refusing to see him face-to-face. However, Bormann does briefly mutter his son's nickname "Little Kronzi" in shock for a few seconds before he is snapped back into reality, suggesting that he does hold an ounce of affection for him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He personally views Hüttig as unpleasant and draconian, even by his standards. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Not to mention criticizing his abominable haircut]].
* EvilVersusEvil:
** His conflict with [[spoiler:Schirach is essentially a power struggle between two unsavory, power-hungry Nazis.]]
** Shortly after the civil war, Bormann tracks Göring to Central Africa and orders him discreetly killed before framing his demise as suicide.
** Hardly any tears are shed when Bormann orders Albert Speer's assassination.
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Bormann legalizes [[spoiler:polygamy at the height of his power during the Opulence, justifying it with man's nature to spread his seed everywhere and calling monogamy Jewish Christian nonsense that prevented the growth of the Aryan race. The German public, predictably enough to anyone but Bormann, is irked at the very thought of this concept.]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: {{Downplayed}}. Given Bormann's shrewdness and pragmatic approach to upholding orthodox National Socialism, it's not immediately obvious that the Reich under his rule is not what it seems. [[spoiler:Even if he manages to bring forth the Opulence, however, the rot and excesses of the ideology ultimately wind up bringing Germany to the brink of chaos, no matter what he does. However, while his dream of a "Thousand Year Reich" may be unlikely, the NSDAP regime is still far from out of the game and WordOfGod has suggested that it can limp past Bormann's death, unless something catastrophic happens.]]
* FatBastard: He's a stout, fat Nazi.
* {{Foil}}: He's revealed to be one to Italo Balbo in Italy. While both are committed to upholding the vision of their predecessors (Hitler and Mussolini respectively), and claim to be orthodox in their views, Balbo is shown to be more pragmatic and proactive to ensure his brand of Italian Fascism endures. Though Bormann seems similar at first [[spoiler:that goes out the window once the Opulence hits, and he doubles-down on the very excesses of National Socialism that would ultimately come back to haunt him.]]
* ForScience: Bormann can deploy experimental Wuderwaffen in the South African War, testing their new weapons against the enemy.
* {{Frameup}}: If Bormann decides to invade Poland to reassert German control, he will launch Operation Doppelganger, which uses dead bodies to create fake evidence that shows the Poles launching reprisal massacres against German settlers, giving him a CasusBelli to invade Poland in the name of self-defense. This is a CallBack to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident Gleiwitz incident]], which was used by Nazi Germany to justify their invasion of Poland in 1939.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Bormann smokes like a chimney, particularly [[CigarChomper cigars]]. One of his first events is rolling back the Reich's anti-smoking policies, [[BlatantLies claiming Hitler planned to do the same and confessed as such to Bormann on his deathbed.]] [[spoiler:It [[LaserGuidedKarma bites him in the ass]] when he's diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.]]
* HeManWomanHater: As an orthodox national socialist, Bormann is big on masculinity and dismissive of women in general. He indirectly insults and directly snubs Margaret Chase Smith if she is president during his StateVisit to America. [[spoiler: During the Opulence, he attempts to institute polygamy for blatantly-misogynist reasons.]]
* HeadInTheSandManagement: At the height [[spoiler:of his arrogance during the Opulence, Bormann instructs all of his subordinates to ignore the Hamburg protests and other uprisings, claiming that they will blow over with time. Bormann gets knocked out of his high when the protests reach Germania and Hewel is butchered by the RAF, but by then, it's too late to salvage the situation.]]
* HistoricalInJoke: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, Bormann's foreign intelligence agency, shares its name with East Germany's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Directorate_for_Reconnaissance foreign intelligence agency]], which was a part of UsefulNotes/TheStasi.
* HistoryRepeats:
** While investigating [[spoiler:the June of Deceit conspiracy, Bormann uncovers a scheme of several conservative functionaries to seize power by establishing a committee that would circumvent the bureaucracy, very similar to Bormann's own attempt to do the same in 1943 through the Dreierausschuß. The event concerning the development is even titled with this trope.]]
** In 1962, Hitler is very close to dying, he hasn't named a successor, his Reich will be in turmoil once he dies and is a shadow of his former self, dying in a year. In 1972, [[spoiler:Bormann is very close to dying, hasn't named a successor, and is a shadow of his former self. The only difference is that the Reich is '''already''' in turmoil once he finds out he's got lung cancer and has got only ''two'' years to live. Not to mention Gehlen's increasingly close relationship with Bormann, not unlike Bormann's own with Hitler. [[DeathByIrony Fitting for a man who sells himself as the continuation of Hitler]].]]
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: In this mod, Bormann is portrayed as a relative moderate compared towards Himmler's insane devotion to Nazi doctrine. In real life, Bormann could arguably be considered more fanatical than Himmler, criticizing his rival for not being extreme enough. For example, Bormann criticized Himmler's advocacy of collaborators in the SS.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the face of the [[spoiler:troubles brought on by the Oil Crisis, Bormann concentrates more power to himself so that he can effectively respond to the crisis. However, this leads to many of his subordinates that he's becoming too dictatorial and taking away their power, which could culminate in Bormann's downfall through the June of Deceit.]]
* HollywoodAtheist: Bormann isn't an atheist in a strict meaning of the word, but he holds Christianity in utter contempt, believing that it is irreconcilable with the ideals of National Socialism. Being the savvy politician he is, however, Bormann recognizes the importance of the Church as a political institution and its place in German society and does not threaten it. [[spoiler: He changes his mind during the Second Dismantlement and especially the Opulence, when he brutally cracks down on churches and the most outspoken priests and shames the religious people into worshiping the Party and the Führer instead]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: At one point, Bormann insults Göring as a "fat pig", even though he's pretty portly himself.
* InternalReformist: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While obviously not to the same extent as Speer, Bormann is willing to make some reforms here and there to fix the Reich's problems. Ultimately though, Bormann remains an orthodox Nazi who will [[spoiler:sooner or later dismantle the reformist faction in either the First or the Second Dismantlement]].
* InUniverseFactoidFailure: In his [[spoiler:legalization of polygamy]], Bormann dismisses [[spoiler:monogamy as "Judeo-Christian nonsense" alien to Aryan society]]. In reality, pre-Christian Germanic cultures were mostly monogamous and were generally [[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Tac.+Ger.+18 "content with one wife"]] (according to Tacitus).
* ItsAllAboutMe: The person Bormann values most is himself. He considers himself the one true master of the Reich, discarding Hitler as someone to move on from and preparing to eliminate anyone else who would try to usurp his position.
* {{Jerkass}}: Geniality is not his strong suit. He's quick to anger, swears like a sailor, and displays a lot of cruel mannerisms when talking to other people. And that's without mentioning he's a Nazi.
* JoinOrDie: While preparing to industrialize the Reich, Bormann convinces the megacorporations to follow his agenda or be destroyed.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: At the end of his route, Bormann is fated to die in 2 years from Lung Cancer, which is the direct result of him smoking like a furnace all the time and rolling back all of the Reich's anti-smoking laws.]]
* KickTheDog:
** Quite literally, during the lead up to his attempt to open diplomacy with the United States, when a friend's dog scares his own and the insecure Bormann [[https://preview.redd.it/pbv1wsw0js961.png?width=532&format=png&auto=webp&s=0871ec7b8761e678ba782662c5452e81f8a32633 quickly retaliates]].
** As Bormann implements harsher practices against the slaves to [[spoiler:mitigate the Oil Crisis, he keeps them barely content by promising to free them when they've completed sufficient work. However, Bormann actually has no intention of keeping his promise, only interested in seeing how the slaves will compete with each other to be the first freed and remarking the whole situation to be "delightfully devilish".]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: If the South African War lasts for an extensive period of time, Bormann may decide to cut his losses and make peace with the OFN, forgetting that the whole conflict ever happened.
* LastDisrespects: After winning the German Civil War, Bormann has all busts of Speer and Göring destroyed to bury their memory. By the end, the only art pieces left are of Bormann and Hitler.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste:
** After Reichswerke's downfall in the First Dismantlement, Bormann will take advantage of their weakness by seizing their assets and either selling them or placing them under direct government control.
** While managing the effects of [[spoiler:the Oil Crisis, Bormann will use it as an opportunity to invest in new civilian Wunderwaffen that he's interested in, such as alternative power through wind power or solar energy.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Despite being a Nazi, Bormann's agenda is pretty vanilla and "moderate" compared to Göring's warmongering plans and Heydrich's desire to implement Spartanism, both of which will either [[spoiler:lead to the Reich's collapse or a nuclear apocalypse.]]
* MagnumOpus: Bormann's proudest achievement is the Breitspurbahn, a massive construction project that builds long swathes of railways to link the Reich and other key cities throughout their East European territories. When it's completed, Bormann is ecstatic to see his legacy cemented and it's one of the few times where he genuinely smiles.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem:
** To intimidate the militarists to remain loyal after the First Dismantlement, Bormann will have several of them killed to show off his power.
** Irritated by bankers trying to buy up all of Reichswerke's stock after the First Dismantlement of the militarists, Bormann will have several of them killed to warn everyone else of what will happen if they oppose him again.
* MeetTheNewBoss:
** Bormann cultivates a public persona that intentionally emphasizes continuity with Hitler's rule. Which he then uses to mask his own efforts to fix the Reich's growing faults, with the populace ostensibly none the wiser. By 1972, however, this takes on a more ironic meaning [[spoiler:as his efforts wind up replicating a chaotic atmosphere and bringing the Reich on the precipice of collapse, similarly to how things were by the time Hitler died.]]
** To provide more jobs for the average German, Bormann abolishes the slavery, though the slaves are not actually freed under the new system. Instead, they will be sent to camps, ghettos, and cities in Eastern Europe, where they can be forced into a life of indentured servitude and ultimately experience no true improvement to their livelihoods.
* {{Minigame}}: Bormann's central mechanic is "Das Kartenhaus", a system that tracks the loyalties and powers of all the sectors of German society under Bormann and allows him to interact with these factions to either manage their loyalty or their power. Getting enough control in Das Kartenhaus serves as the precondition to triggering [[ThePurge the Dismantlement]][[spoiler:[[ThePurge s]]]].
* MoodWhiplash: After the [[spoiler:Second Night of the Long Knives, Bormann's Germany enters a phase known as the "Opulence", where the German economy shoots through the roof, new megaprojects are being started, while Bormann adopts a fireband position and passes some radical policies like abolishing slavery on the spot, formally integrating Ostland and the Generalgouvernement, and legalizing polygamy. After the Opulence, however, things go down ''sharply''; Bormann is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, student protests rise in intensity and have to be cracked down, while the RAF abducts and later murders Reichsminister Walther Hewel and his wife. This triggers a period known as the "Herbst", with riots and terrorist attacks rising in frequency across the Reich.]]
* MoralMyopia:
** Bormann has the nerve to get angry when Poland rejects his offer to rejoin the Pakt after his deal would've subjugated them under a satellite state with no autonomy of its own.
** To keep the bankers loyal, Bormann blackmails them with information of the abuse they conduct in private, such as one individual physically abusing and extorting sex from women. It's extremely hypocritical coming from a Nazi who not only contributed to the Holocaust, but also extorts sex from young women.
** After spending years ruling Germany as a cruel dictator, [[spoiler:Bormann is left boggled when the people rise against him in the Herbst, deeming them all ungrateful.]]
* MortonsFork: When a [[spoiler:student protest rises up in Germania during the early stages of the Herbst, Bormann can either leave them be or unleash the Orpo to break them up. Neither option changes the ultimate outcome. The former option means the protestors will march towards the Volkshalle and require intervention from the Orpo, and both scenarios end with the protests returning the next day, stronger than ever.]]
* TheNapoleon: Bormann is not a man of great physical stature, and he is pretty insecure about it. His [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/ksbzig/all_of_the_possible_us_presidentmartin_bormann/ state visits to the United States]] almost all reference his short stature, and a few of them even feature him being humiliated by it.
* NeverRecycleABuilding: {{Subverted}}. Bormann's reconstruction efforts explicitly mention that they will rebound from the civil war by rebuilding the urban ruins, believing that a weak man would do otherwise.
* NoOSHACompliance: {{Exaggerated}} during [[spoiler:the Oil Crisis, where Bormann pauses the abolition of slavery and uses the remaining slaves to mitigate the disaster by extracting resources from Eastern Europe under harsher measures and with even fewer "luxuries".]]
* NoTrueScotsman: During the reconstruction after the civil war, Bormann will deem any German who opposed him as not wholly Aryan and judge that they "displayed a suspiciously subhuman mindset".
* NostalgiaFilter: Bormann considers the 1940's to be the golden era for the Nazi regime, compared to its birth in the 1930's and the troubles it faced in the 1950's and 60's. [[spoiler:In the Opulence, Bormann will kickstart a "National Renaissance", where the people will recapture the spirit and culture of the idolized decade.]]
* NumberTwo: Bormann starts as the head of government for Hitler and the only person in the Reich who can rival the Führer in popularity and influence (if not already exceeded him after Hitler retired from making decisions).
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: After winning the German civil war, Bormann deals with the Reich's rebellious colonies by allowing them to peacefully return to the Reich's fold (with more autonomy), while making it clear if they refuse, they will not be able to withstand a German invasion.
* OnlySaneMan: By 1962, Bormann sees himself as this. He's not blind to the faults within the Reich, and should he assume power, will try to do what's necessary to keep the regime from falling apart.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bormann is generally characterized as a short-tempered, violent Nazi who doesn't take bad news very well. [[spoiler:However, when he learns that he's developed lung cancer in a time where riots and terrorist attacks are growing in frequency and eating away at the Reich's stability. Instead of exploding with anger like he usually does, a dejected Bormann can only resign to the fact that his dream of a Thousand Year Reich may be impossible.]]
* PetTheDog:
** Bormann can choose to pardon Kiesinger and Erhard and allow them to return to Germany when the HVA locates them in Switzerland, with no strings attached and at no real benefit to himself.
** Although he is angered by Terboven's desertion from Norwegene, Bormann can merely have his titles stripped rather than sentence him to execution out of gratitude for aiding him in the civil war.
* PlausibleDeniability: To silence an exiled Speer, Bormann can order a discreet assassination on him, which would give them enough ambiguity to deny responsibility.
* PoliceState: Bormann massively expands and reforms the Ordnungspolizei under his rule, and has it absorb the Abwehr and the Gestapo to form a new SecretPolice agency called Strategische Unterstützungspolizei.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** Bormann, as an orthodox National Socialist unlike Speer, is an awful person with a loathsome ideology, and the game does not attempt to treat any of the things he believes or does as "good" per se. However, he is a shrewd man who understands that not every bit of the National Socialist machine is good for Germany, and as a result, while still an authoritarian state built on racism and exploitation, his Germany will make some incremental progressive reforms, like phasing out slavery and reducing oppression of native peoples, reigning in the abuses of the Wehrwirtschaftsführer, and demilitarizing society overall, to keep the regime stable. [[spoiler: Zigzagged wildly during the Opulence, where he feels he's invincible before the one-two-three punch of the RAF's rampage, his cancer diagnosis, and the looming Second West Russian War take the wind out of his sails, as he does hugely ambitious things both villainous (cracking down on and trying to phase out Christianity, legalizing polygamy and having his way with any woman he wants) and non-villainous (abolishing slavery on the spot, starting crazy megaprojects) without regard to pragmatism.]]
** Despite Schörner's aid to Göring during the German Civil War, Bormann has him pardoned because executing him would create a martyr for the militarists to rally around and severely weaken the Wehrmacht.
** Though he has no further use of Speidel's reformists after taking out Schörner, Bormann may avoid executing them outright and instead persuade the less loyal to join his side because it would create less public backlash.
** After pinpointing Schmidt's exile to the United States, Bormann avoids further persecution against him because he is being protected by the FBI and any move against Schmidt would incite open conflict with the OFN.
** With harsh, unpopular rationing practices implemented [[spoiler:to mitigate the Oil Crisis' effects, Bormann makes a consolation attempt to earn the people's support back by giving them a generous stimulus pack, placating their complaining. Simultaneously, Bormann establishes the Volksgemeinschaft, or People's Community", to provide more social programs and thereby win more goodwill from the public.]]
** As the [[spoiler:student protests approach their peak when they reach Germania, Bormann can refrain from breaking up the opposition and heed Gehlen's suggestion to let them voice their discontent, since suppression would only make them angrier.]]
* PropagandaMachine: To garner support, Bormann produces a propaganda children's show called ''Heil Zeit!'', featuring a Teutonic knight version of Bormann invariably slaying all of his enemies, including Speidel, Schörner, and [[spoiler:Schirach]]. The show is told from the perspective of a young German boy who eagerly watches the show, but grows out of it as he matures, eventually telling his younger brother to stop watching it and joining protests against Bormann.
* ProperlyParanoid: During the South African War, Bormann is very suspicious of Hüttig, finding his admiration of Burgundy an indication of his diminishing loyalties to the Reich. He turns out correct when Hüttig does eventually absorb the other African Reichskommissariats and cuts ties with Germany.
* ThePurge:
** Bormann ends phase 1 of his focus tree with the discovery of a plot (known as the Reformist or the Militarist Plot) in the Wehrmacht to coup him led by either the Reformists under Hans Speidel or the Militarists under Ferdinand Schörner[[note]]The faction that makes the conspiracy is the faction that Bormann didn't side with when appointing the Chief of the OKW.[[/note]], and will launch a purge on them in what is known as the Dismantlement.
** Later on in Bormann's story, [[spoiler:Gehlen will tip Bormann off on a massive conspiracy inside his government (known as the June of Deceit). If Bormann investigates it, he will discover that the conspiracy's mastermind is his deputy Baldur von Schirach, who's planning to depose him and seize the Führership by working with the leftover Wehrmacht faction, high ranking government officials, and the Big Four corporations. If Bormann successfully discovers Schirach's conspiracy, he will launch the Second Dismantlement, a far more aggressive purge into far more sections of the German society to root out the faction that he didn't purge in the First Dismantlement, and replace almost all ministers in his cabinet. This event is known in-universe as the Second Night of the Long Knives, and has an accompanying superevent.]]
* PyrrhicVictory:
** If Speidel wasn't removed as Chief of the OKH, but the Reformist Plot is stopped anyway, Speidel gets shot under Müller's orders, but Bormann doesn't take much satisfaction from his victory because the German markets are still left in ruins from the conspiracy and will take more time to recover.
** When [[spoiler:chaos erupts in the Wilhelmstraße Riots of the Herbst, Bormann sends the Orpo to crush them. Initially, their strategy works, but the protestors just keep coming back, even more zealous, culminating in some outright attacking or killing Orpo officers they see.]]
* {{Realpolitik}}: Bormann can engage in diplomacy with the United States as one of his focuses, and it is done to lessen their nations' hostilities in favor of [[EnemyMine aiming their focuses on Japan and its sphere]]. This includes a series of different events for Bormann to negotiate how they'll operate, ceremonial visits, and pictures and discussions between the countries' leaders.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: To weaken the influence of the militarists, Bormann can reassign them to useless positions where they can no longer pose a threat to his power.
* RegimeChange: If Norway went independent after a Milorg coup, a pro-reformist Bormann will attempt to negotiate for them to rejoin the Pakt upfront (as long as they didn't go socialist), while secretly preparing for a pro-German coup in Norway led by Henrik Rogstad. A pro-Militarist Bormann cannot negotiate with Milorg Norway, though he can still attempt a coup instead of an invasion.
* RoyalHarem: [[spoiler:While he was already a womanizer and sexual predator, Bormann goes full-hog during the Opulence and legalizes polygamy explicitly so he can marry as many women as he wants. The German public is predictably not enthused.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Bormann is extremely vindictive towards traitors, such as when he orders a recording [[spoiler:of the execution of some June of Deceit collaborators for his own viewing pleasure.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If Bormann fails the First Dismantlement, he'll try to flee Germania through a secret passageway, where he can escape in a getaway car.
* SecretPolice:
** After the First Dismantlement, Bormann regards the Orpo as his only true ally to securing his rule, absorbing the Abwehr and Gestapo into them so that they can silently root out potential dissidents.
** Bormann also establishes the ''Stratgische Unterstutzungpolizei'', designed to monitor all activities in the Reich and arrest anyone disloyal to the Führer.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Out of paranoia fed by Gehlen, Bormann purges Müller [[spoiler:when he believes that he may be trying to overthrow him, which just makes Müller join Schirach's real conspiracy to topple Bormann. Simultaneously, it gets Schirach worried enough to begin initiating his June of Deceit plot, so Bormann's own fears of a coup end up confirming themselves.]]
* SiblingRivalry: Martin Bormann has a strained relationship with his younger brother Albert. When the German Civil War erupts, Albert Bormann joins forces with Hermann Göring and fights against his own brother.
* SimpleYetOpulent: {{Subverted}}. Bormann would like to have a modest appearance because he dislikes pretentious extravagance, but he will show off grandeur because it inspires morale from the people.
* SirSwearsALot: Bormann tends to be rather foul-mouthed in private, especially if he is being informed of bad news.
-->'''Bormann:''' What the fuck do you think? Tell High Command to get their shit together and put those fucking Poles in the dirt!
** It can come out in public too, if he meets with President Curtis [=LeMay=], another notorious Sir Swears-a-Lot, who not only openly refuses to play ball with him, but even calls him "Little Martin" to his face, leading to a downright swearing duel:
--->'''[=LeMay=]:''' Hey! What did I fucking say? Save it for the conference! This ain't an oppotunity for little Martin to swing his dick around. Talks first, then the propaganda shit.\\
'''Bormann:''' Don't you fucking dare call me that! Show some respect, or else.\\
'''[=LeMay=]:''' Get over yourself, squirt. You don't intimidate me. You need me, I need you. The Japs are a big fucking threat right now. If they weren't, I wouldn't be shaking hands with a Nazi fucking bastard like you.\\
'''Bormann:''' Your mongrel fucking nation won't outlast Japan by many years! History will prove this!\\
'''[=LeMay=]:''' I don't give a shit what you think. Whether you like it or not, history is on America's side. [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev We will bury you!]]
* SnakeOilSalesman: During the [[spoiler:Opulence, Bormann advertises the drug, Pervitin, as a miracle cure to any ailment, from a hangnail to cancer. A few people question the validity of its claims and suspect that there's some hidden cost to it, especially since Pervitin is often found in the hands of rich NSDAP members.]]
* StatusQuoIsGod: Downplayed. While Bormann also implements his own reforms and pragmatic policies, he still remains an orthodox National Socialist and ''doesn't'' purge the ideology of its worst excesses, in contrast to Speer.
* StealingTheCredit: Once he has dealt with the first Dismantlement, Bormann sends his foreign minister, Walther Hewel, to negotiate with Sweden. If the talks succeed, he congratulates Hewel in private, but after he leaves, he decides that Hewel's role had been merely "advisory" and makes a call to the censors...
-->''I did most of that, not Hewel.''
* StupidEvil: For how shrewd Bormann usually is, it can be easy to fool him, if one appeals to his racism. One individual, lamenting the destruction of various art pieces under Bormann's watch, defects to Switzerland under the guise of caricaturing the average Swiss as a degenerate.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: When appointing a new head of the OKW, Bormann will be forced to work with either Speidel or Schörner, even though he dislikes both of them. [[spoiler:He'll eventually be forced to purge whoever he works with during the Second Dismantlement.]]
* TemptingFate: Throughout the [[spoiler:Opulence tree, Bormann brags about eliminating all threats to his power and making his reign unquestionably invincible. His arrogance ends up proving foolish when the RAF and students rise up in the Herbst. For further irony, Bormann is initially in denial during the early stages of the Herbst and the first opposition to rise up in the Hamburg Protests, foolishly believing that it's just a minor and temporary setback.]]
* TranquilFury: Upon learning of Hüttig's betrayal, Bormann is obviously furious, but his reaction is one of mostly silence and a relatively quiet vow that Hüttig will pay for his treachery.
* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: For all his efforts to present himself as a continuation of Hitler, the one thing Bormann seemingly can't match is his predecessor's charisma. Bormann is self-aware of how bad he is at public speaking since he was a child, often peppering his speech with stammering and grammatical mistakes. However, Bormann delivers a shockingly good speech [[spoiler:after the Second Dismantlement]], indicating that he can be good at the practice if he's especially passionate.
* UncertainDoom: If Heydrich defeats him during the Civil War, Bormann will mysteriously disappear, while his followers get butchered by the SS. This may be an AllohistoricalAllusion to how Bormann also "disappeared" after World War II before it was discovered that he actually died discreetly during the Battle of Berlin, indicating that Bormann met a similar fate here.
* TheUnfettered: During the South African War, Bormann may authorize the military to commit any atrocity or war crime needed to achieve victory, no longer bound to the conventions of war.
* VillainHasAPoint:
** He is suspicious of Hüttig's treasonous loyalty to Burgundy over the Reich, with his intuition being proven right when he forms the Reichstaat and cuts all ties with Germany.
** Bormann rightfully points out the inefficiency of the German slave system and its detrimental effect on the economy. Hiring German workers proves to be a much more effective policy by increasing their spending power and thereby stimulating the economy.
** When Bormann learns that Speer has published a book about the inner workings of the Reich, he gets pissed to learn that Speer has whitewashed his role by pinning his crimes onto Bormann. Even if Bormann is moreso angry about being slandered and is hardly a saint himself, his accusations toward Speer are correct.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A long-time associate of Hitler, Bormann learned a few tricks from his master and tries to present himself to the public as the second coming of Hitler, while pursuing his own, ulterior motives. As such, he is the most popular successor after Hitler's demise and thus the most likely to win the German Civil War.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** In the Reformist Plot, Hans Globke, a co-conspirator to Speidel, will blame the Party Chancellery of plotting to use Bormann as a puppet to Schörner, getting them all arrested. Rapidly losing control of the situation, Bormann loses all self-control and angrily shouts to Schörner over the phone to get the situation under control.
** If Schirach [[spoiler:successfully initiates the June of Deceit]], Bormann becomes increasingly irrational as the situation around him falls apart. When Walther Hewel, his one remaining ally, urges him to evacuate, a paranoid Bormann accuses him of being a traitor like everyone else, pulling out a pistol to shoot him. Upon this, several loyal [=OrPo=] officers disarm Bormann and escort him to the panic room, while another gets medical aid for Hewel.
* VisionaryVillain:
** Bormann has grand ambitions to transform the Reich into an economic powerhouse through the "Modern Wunderwaffe", using the Entscheidungsnetzwerk (or "Cybersyn") to help balance the budget and setting up 'Volksgemeinschaft" to practically reduce unemployment levels to 0%.
** Bormann also has a great passion for the sciences, offering generous sums of money to research and development firms to create new innovations.
* WeHaveReserves: One tactic that can be adopted by Bormann in the South African War is to whittle the OFN down through attrition, using their surplus of "problematic natives" and exiles to slowly overwhelm the enemy, regardless of how many casualties ensue.
* WhamLine: After having a violent coughing fit in front of the Reichministers wherein he coughed up ''blood'', Bormann calls for a doctor. His doctor then informs him [[spoiler: that he has lung cancer and only has [[YourDaysAreNumbered two years left to live]].]]
-->[[spoiler:''It's bad news, I'm afraid. You have terminal lung cancer. At most, I would give you two years left to live. I'm sorry, my Fuhrer.'']]
* {{Workaholic}}: At one point, Bormann mentions that he's had to work twenty hours a day while serving as Hitler's deputy.
* WrittenByTheWinners:
** After winning the civil war, Bormann destroys all evidence of ever working with his former allies, creating a narrative that he would never cooperate with traitors to the ideals of National Socialism.
** Once Bormann [[spoiler:eliminates all of his remaining rivals in the Second Dismantlement, he picks up construction of Hitler's Welthauptstadt project, even stressing his role in the designs all the way back in the 1940's over Speer. Bormann is lying through his teeth with this story, but there's no one powerful enough or alive to disprove it.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Bormann has options to punish his subordinates if they make severe failures, such as executing Frank and Terboven for failing to maintain the Reich's control of Poland and Norway, respectively.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Resorting to desperate measures during the South African War, Bormann will authorize the deployment of "volunteer" divisions, which largely consists of disabled Bürgerkrieg veterans living on government assistance and sent to die on the frontlines as a show of their loyalty. However, Bormann has no intention of reintegrating them back into German society and will [[DeadlyEuphemism "dispose of them"]] when they've achieved victory.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: In 1972, Bormann finds out [[spoiler: he has at most two years left to live due to terminal lung cancer, all while the political situation in Germany decays further]].

!!!Tropes pertaining to the facelift
->'''Role:''' Führer & Reich Chancellor[[note]]Head of State[[/note]], Leader of the Control Faction
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Leader of the Control Faction) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The Control Faction spreads across the Reich like a maelstrom, sucking every institution and influential figure into its unfathomable depths. At the center of this vortex sits Martin Bormann, the Brown Eminence of the NSDAP.\\\
Bormann's clade seeks the transformation of the NSDAP into a supreme body encompassing all societal and state institutions. The membership must be elite and centralized, comprising Bormann's loyal allies and fervent young men recruited from the Hitler Youth.\\\
Some state the Control Faction has spread its influence due to its adherence to Orthodox National Socialism and Hitler's glorious legacy. Others claim corruption, bribery, and blackmail. Yet nobody denies that this Faction represents Bormann's entrenched power within the mechanisms of the Reich's bureaucratic apparatus.[[/labelnote]]
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: The teased "Pressure on the Final Bulwark" national focus shows that Bormann can reduce the Church's power as part of his partification plans, but he must not escalate the policy too quickly or else he might destabilize his regime.
* DoWrongRight: Bormann is just as much of a reformist as Speer. The difference is that, while Speer projects an international image of a liberalizing influence, Bormann criticizes Germany for not being committed to the NSDAP enough. From the teased description of the Control Faction, Bormann wants to subsume every governing body of Germany into the NSDAP's control so that they hold absolute power.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: One of the more terrifying images from his facelift teaser is the option to mark a "dead zone" in Eastern Europe, a continuation of the ''Bandenbekämpfung'' doctrine that declares an entire population to be part of a "bandit" territory and authorizes its complete depopulation.
* PragmaticVillainy: In a newspaper teaser for his facelift, Bormann can appoint Kurt Waldheim to be his Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs, adopting a less belligerent diplomatic approach so that he can repair Germany's reputation abroad.