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As we all likely know, Hitler was appointed chancellor by President Paul Von Hinderburg on 30th of January 1933, And Hitler used that power to pass major things like the Reichstag Fire Decree, The Enabling Act, Law Against Formation of Parties and Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.

However- What I and many other forget was Paul Von Hinderburg, Although as far as I’m aware he was basically a figurehead and was in ill health by that point, Did not pass away until 2nd of August 1934. This means there was a (roughly) 549 days between Hitler being appointed chancellor and Hinderburg passing away. After Hinderburg’s death, A (rigged) referendum was held by the Nazis to merge the title of President (as Hitler assumed it upon Hinderburg’s death) and Chancellor into Fürher.

Everything else afterwards is quite well known. But- Although I’m aware he was already likely a figurehead and in extremely ill health by that point- Did Hinderburg do anything major (aside from the fire decree)? Was he still involved in German politics? What was his opinion on things like the enabling act? Was he still widely recognised as Germany’s head of state or was it known even then he was becoming a figurehead? How public was he still?

I know you all probably get a lot of questions about WW2 and Hitler, But this has been bugging me for a while. Thanks in advance.

I was thinking about making a mod about where the player plays as the Liberal Party (which famously declined in the 1920s) and try to prevent it’s demise to a third party status.

The mod would either be ‘won’ when the player either allows the Liberal Party to stay consistently over 150+ seats in Parliament in two elections (E.G, Winning opposition or government consistently) and would likely ‘lose’ if the player has the Liberal Party in third party status by the end.

For a start date- Perhaps 1922?

And for an end date I was thinking maybe 1940-ish.

It’ll obviously take a while since I have little to no experience in coding, And I’m still kind of a newbie to this game, I just wanted to throw the idea out and see what people think of it.

Let’s say- Perhaps if Perot takes more support from Clinton than Bush and Clinton divides his party more over NAFTA- Bush, Like his son in OTL, Wins the electoral college narrowly (perhaps even as narrow as 270 v. 268) but Clinton wins the popular vote by 0.5-1%

How does this affect 90s politics? What does Bush’s second term look like? Does Clinton run again in 1996?