In interwar Germany, the Technocrats were the first party to achieve a half-stable minority in the Reichstag since the abdication of Wilhelm II. Once they were in power, they clamped down on their main opposition, the National Socialists and the Communists, (very easily) pitting the two against each other. After the Emergency Laws were repealed in 1969, and certain elements of democratic rule were restored, tensions amongst the democrats, fascists, and communists began to ease up slightly, with the Cold War being declared officially over in the 1977 Zurich Treaties.
However, I was just watching the CBC (I know, I know, propaganda machine directly controlled from London

...) and they reported the recently appointed Tech-Kommissar Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking a bit of a hostile stance to what he labels "Western Imperialism". However, Entertainment Tonight has also reported rumours of a relationship with La Duce Alessandra Mussolini. This is probably bullshit, but German-Italian relations aren't suffering the same strain as German-American/Canadian/Newfoundland/British etc.
So are we in for another Cold War? Or a second Great War?
EDIT: Sorry I strained from my original topic...
What would have happened to Germany and the world without the Technocrats?