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An interesting thing about post-World War II German history I did not know until recently: the Zentrum did *not* immediately fold itself en masse into the new CDU after the War. It made a quite serious attempt to revive itself. In North Rhine-Westphalia it scored almost ten percent in the 1947 Landtag election "despite a targeted CDU campaign against 'wasted' Center Party votes." http://books.google.com/books?id=nFtkBXw7i38C&pg=PA156)

Can anyone see a scenario where a revived Zentrum, rather than the interconfessional CDU, becomes the main political party of postwar German Catholics? Maybe if you have a Vatican that is more strongly opposed to interconfessional parties?
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