Albert Speer represents to the Reich a "rationalization" from the current predicament, contrasting with Wegener and the Party's efforts and with Goebbels' populistic approach. The Elites within the German state, from bureaucrats, ministers, industrials, corporative leaders and economists have their favorite in the Architect, a man who achieved great power by approaching Hitler as a friend, an appreciator of the arts and a man who made his visions into reality. The Volkshalle, the Führermuseum, the renovation of cities like Berlin and Hamburg, the project of Linz and of several eastern settlements, the expansion of the railroad network, all of that is credited to him. He is good at taking credit and the benefits of others' ideas, but the man himself is not without intelligence, showing the personality of a pragmatic and intelligent leader. However this all hides the true nature of his powers, he is the man responsible for the German Economy as both Minister of Economy and Minister of Production, alongside his contacts achieved thanks to the influence these ministeries gave him. He is the man responsible for the "Foreign Worker's Program", initially made as a wartime measure that consolidated itself into a trap, where millions were forced to work at low wages, treated like slaves through long work hours in terrible conditions. Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Belarussians, all the conquered peoples and even those attracted by it's false promises in the Reich's satellite states, they are used as tools by the almighty Minister, who diverts them like numbers in return for favors to some of the largest companies in the world. His partnership with the SS long allowed him to use the labor of the concentration camps to his advantage, with enough loopholes those people could be used as little more than slaves by the Reich. No doubt a victory of Speer in this coming struggle was something he has been awaiting for years, resisting Wegener's push for partification, Heydrich's security state and now Goebbels and his masses, he will prevail just as he outlasted the others, ensuring that the Reich of a Thousand Years will divert to a more rational and streamlined path on the world stage.
Joseph Goebbels is hardly the man that the Reich's propaganda praises as the greatest race of them all, a man from the Rhineland who grew up to be a doctor in literature and now ended up as the voice of the most feared regime on Earth. Goebbels has been the voice and face of the party for years, something that only intensified as Hitler began to avoid the public due to his deteriorating physical health, and Hess did the same over his mental health. Goebbels, a true "Social Nationalist" from the beginning, is the living hypocrisy that goes against many of the values of the Reich even faithfulness. But nobody denies that he is a man true to his obsession with Hitler and his Legacy, and the people love him for it, they see him as the spokesman, an outsider to the corrupt bureaucracy that had taken over Germania, stagnating the economy and plunging Germany into a war that risks the conquests so hardly acquired by Hitler. A victory for Goebbels means a victory of this Hitlerist vision that he has in his mind, it means the victory of the German Volk against the shackles of it's enemies, a return to the dynamism and fervor of the early party days when the SA marched on the streets with brown shirts and enacted the Führer's will. A victory of Goebbels means a return to this old way, to use the fire that once burned the enemies of Germany to do so again from within, cleaning it from the vile kleptocracy and oligarchy, from the party elitism and from the whims of a weak leader.
