The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) is the most powerful and the only legal political party in the Greater Germanic Reich.
The party serves as a totalitarian dictatorship led by the Führer Adolf Hitler, with party chancellor Martin Bormann being the second in command and a close adviser. The NSDAP has been in power since 1933, when Paul Von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor after the NSDAP won a majority in the Reichstag elections after forming an alliance with independent and conservative parties.
Factions of the NSDAP
The NSDAP is divided into various informal political factions. These factions mainly stem from a national disagreement on who will succeed Adolf Hitler and political policies:
- Conservatives - Supporters of Parteikanzlei Martin Bormann. They wish to mostly maintain the status quo in Germany, although the necessity of limited reforms is acknowledged. They are the most powerful faction within the party.
- Militarists - Warhawks who support Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. They wish to see the Reich built around the Wehrmacht, and to begin a new era of conquest. Ferdinand Schörner is also a prominent member of this faction, leading an Ultranationalist sub-faction within the militarists. Schörner wants almost every able-bodied German to be conscripted for conquest. The militarists have average influence within the party.
- Reformists - Liberals who see that the Reich is stagnating and is in need of major reform, for instance, abolishing the racial policies and for the Reich to follow Italian Fascism. Some members even advocate for the Reich to become a democracy in some way most notably the Gang of Four. They rally around Albert Speer. They have moderate influence within the party.
- Himmlerites - Extremists who support the Burgundian System ideology. They support Reichsführer of the German Schutzstaffel Reinhard Heydrich and have the least influence within the party. This faction is considered to be a puppet of Heinrich Himmler, the leader of Burgundy. The faction's influence is practically non existent outside of the SS.