(Imperial Bureau of Cultural Oversight — Confidential Translation)

Subject: Albert Speer, Reichskanzler and self-styled Führer of the New Reich
Date: Year 1944 (Axis Reckoning)
Origin: Berlin Central Node
File Code: JN–Σ–47/STEEL–GLASS

Summary:
Following the elimination of Adolf Hitler in a coup staged by senior Party and SS elements, Albert Speer has ascended to supreme leadership of the Reich. Publicly styled as a figure of calm rationality and progress, Speer is presented to the German citizenry as the “Architect of Victory.”

In practice, Speer remains under the influence of two dominant figures:

• Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring — Controller of the industrial syndicates, petroleum cartels, and the Ural–Caucasus resource corridors.

• Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler — Controller of the SS state security apparatus, responsible for “stability” in occupied territories and surveillance of all ministries.

Speer’s demeanor and urbane speeches mask his reliance on these patrons. Göring feeds the engines of conquest; Himmler suppresses dissent.

Strategic Assessment:

• Military-Industrial Expansion: New Reich factories in the Urals produce alloys and fuels at unprecedented scale. Zeppelin-freighters shuttle petroleum westward; armored steam-convoys run uninterrupted.

• Rocket Program: Speer champions von Braun’s lunar project, diverting colossal resources into rocket-propulsion laboratories outside Dresden and Peenemünde.

• Ideological Shift: Propaganda rhetoric emphasizes Order and Progress rather than racial mysticism. Slogans recorded: “Every Citizen a Cog in the Eternal Machine.”

• Internal Fractures: Göring seeks profit; Himmler seeks absolute control. Speer is increasingly constrained, potentially vulnerable to manipulation.

Recommendation:
The New Reich represents a greater long-term threat to Imperial security than the late Führer’s disorderly vision. Monitoring required. Consider disruption of:

• Rocket research networks.

• Ural petroleum convoys.

• Speer’s personal cult of rational efficiency.

Margin Note [Redacted]: Reports suggest Speer’s speeches are received with relief among German civilians. Dangerous stability achieved.

(Stamped in vermillion ink: “ARCHIVE — CLASSIFIED — 東機局”)