The Reichstag and the position of Reichstag president being relevant in any way is weird. The Nazis were very open about their contempt for it. It wouldn't be a place of debate or lawmaking. By contrast, the Soviets at least paid lip service to the Supreme Soviet being relevant.
Karl Kaufmann would be a more apt choice as an old guard stalwart with ties to Speer who opposes Bormann and the Control Faction. He was an Old Fighter with ironclad control over his Gau in Hamburg, and adept at ingratiating himself both with the workers (he made sure wages in Hamburg remained higher than usual in the Reich) and the mercantile business community (he helped them get lots of plunder in the occupied territories in the east). Also brutal, very corrupt and an ally of Speer (Speer had very few friends among the Gauleiters, one was Kaufmann, another Karl Hanke). He managed to kinda whitewash himself to an extent post-war, as popular perception of him in Hamburg remained rather rosy. I don't think Jordan was particularly noteworthy and he had nothing to do with Speer. Oberländer's career was basically finished in OTL when he wrote memos criticising German eastern policy.
Beyond that, I like it, as well as what was shown in the other leak depicting Bormann's cabinet! Partification was the whole agenda of Bormann and the Control Faction, and Wegener was his 'golden boy'. Orlow writes about this in his History of the Nazi Party. Axmann was also a critic of Bormann in OTL and there being a radical movement in the Hitler Youth frustrated by the corruption and stagnation of the Party apparatus, but still fervently Nazi, is actually backed up by developments in the last stages of the war. So the above quibbling aside, it looks like the path will provide a more grounded but also narratively interesting experience.
Karl Kaufmann would be a more apt choice as an old guard stalwart with ties to Speer who opposes Bormann and the Control Faction. He was an Old Fighter with ironclad control over his Gau in Hamburg, and adept at ingratiating himself both with the workers (he made sure wages in Hamburg remained higher than usual in the Reich) and the mercantile business community (he helped them get lots of plunder in the occupied territories in the east). Also brutal, very corrupt and an ally of Speer (Speer had very few friends among the Gauleiters, one was Kaufmann, another Karl Hanke). He managed to kinda whitewash himself to an extent post-war, as popular perception of him in Hamburg remained rather rosy. I don't think Jordan was particularly noteworthy and he had nothing to do with Speer. Oberländer's career was basically finished in OTL when he wrote memos criticising German eastern policy.
Beyond that, I like it, as well as what was shown in the other leak depicting Bormann's cabinet! Partification was the whole agenda of Bormann and the Control Faction, and Wegener was his 'golden boy'. Orlow writes about this in his History of the Nazi Party. Axmann was also a critic of Bormann in OTL and there being a radical movement in the Hitler Youth frustrated by the corruption and stagnation of the Party apparatus, but still fervently Nazi, is actually backed up by developments in the last stages of the war. So the above quibbling aside, it looks like the path will provide a more grounded but also narratively interesting experience.
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