No.1105
>>1104I'm basically inserting the characters into WWII officials but your analogy makes way more sense lol would rubinsky be herzl?
No.1106
>>1104Echoing this. Reinhard is space Napoleon and the Reich is the Old Regime.
Reinhard / Kircheis are also a classic Alexander / Hephaestion dynamic.
No.1107
>>1106Correct.
You can even pull the Alexander comparison further with how he
mysteriously dies at a young age shortly after consolidating his empire, and his admirals mirroring the Diadochi (though Reinhard at least managed to get an heir so I can only assume it didn't all fall apart after the conclusion).
No.1108
the way I see it, rudolf and reinhard represent both sides of idealist figures like hitler held. One side is textbook socialist or dictatorship that leans towards ideologies that fall under that term like fascism and use brute means like state-enforced eugenic policies that're egoist-like and come off as masquerading ethno-nationalism while the other is more amenable and meritocratic as opposed to fully nepotistic and such. The other side still has pride for it's nation but less hyper-traditionalist and more through a genuine altruistic love for it's countrymen even if policies or decisions are still expedient in some occasions (westerland massacre lol). Sort of the same contrast between wen-li's minarchist views juxtaposed with the bourgeoisie vs proletariat-oriented side of democracy. It's like a thematic hitler-like aristocracy vs a fdr-like democrstic-republic but yeah reinhard is clearly bonapartist. There are instances where he's pushed into coming off as a braunschweig-like machiavellianistic narcissist (too exaggerated I know) like vermillion and the reuenthal rebellion.
No.2694
>>1103Reinhard's explicitly meant to be more like Alexander and Napoleon. They take some of the cool things from Fascism but then put it into an explicitly non-Fascist context, a monarchist empire in the style of 19th century Prussia, and have Reinhard be against the Hitler figure, to make them acceptable to modern people.