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General Zod

Banned
So Hitler still has all his mental faculties? Aside from being a complete breadbasket of course.

It is a somewhat open question, and most relevant to any TL where Nazi Germany wins or ties WWII (and the Nazi regime doesn't collapse soon after), whether the clear mental and physical decline Hitler suffered in the last phase of the war, was due to the terrible stress of the war and the looming defeat, the effects of encroaching senility and/or a budding chronic disease (most likely Parkinson), or the effects of his stimulant drug abuse, and whether the effects of such stress, and/or the drug abuse, were reversible or not.

Answering this question tells you whether Hitler remains a somewhat longeve and functional head of state long after the war, he dies or become incapacitated soon after 1945. Again, assuming he (or his successor) does not get couped for economic mismangement and miliary overextension, this may tell you a lot when another Fuhrer takes over, and therefore the likely gallery of successors, whether someone from his old crowd of associates (Goering, Himmler, Goebblers), someone who only came to prominence with the war (Heydrich, Speer), or someone else entirely, an ATL figure who comes from the ranks of Army, the SS, the Party administrative bureaucracy, or the militar-industrial complex technocratic elite. This, and the period when the new Fuhrer takes over, can give some good hints about his likely policies. Of course, it also matters how much success Nazi Germany gets at the end of the war, and whom the rival great powers are.
 
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