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Upon the death of his beloved Fuerher, Martin Bormann quickly manuevered his way through the halls of power, making allies with the powerful army generals that would ensure his rise to power. In a coup de grace to his political enemies, he waved the bloodied uniform of Hitler at his funeral speech. Denouncing the Speerites as a 'pack of Judeo-Bolshevik radicals' he quickly won over the support of the fearful Reichstag, due to his fiery rhetoric, and his alliance with the SS. A alliance, incidentally, he would later come to regret.

Bormann has sought a close alliance with Joseph Stalin, seeing him as a natural ally against the western democracies of Britain and the United States. He has continued the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and even expanded trade with Stalin, who is more than willing to trade with Nazi German as both the Germans and Soviets are under large scale trade sanctions from most Britain and her colonies, as well as the League of Free Nations.

Bormann has given the SS considerable freedom, as part of the terms of their agreement to back his regime. They were granted Ordenstaat Polen, encompassing many of the lands of the former Generalgouvernement. Within their little kingdom, the SS plots to fulfill what they see as the true destiny of the Reich - war with the Soviet Union.

Bormann is ambivalent in his attitudes to America, seeing Lindbergh as a 'useful idiot' but not fully trusting the young former aviator. While Lindbergh opposed sanctions on Germany, he has also greatly expanded American military power. Bormann knows that with upcoming elections, and particularly the staunch rhetoric of MacArthur and his New Republican-Democrat Patriot Alliance, there may be a regime change that is not necessarily to Germany's advantage.

Within the Reichstag, discontent is also brewing. While Speer was executed for trumped up charges of treason, his legacy lives on, and General Hans Spiedel embodies a growing body of people calling for reform. Bormann must do all he can to cling tenuously to the Fuehrship, and serve his dead master. But history has a pattern of repeating itself, and Bormann and the nation he leads have yet to weather the storm.