Illiberal West Germany

Would it be plausible for the West German state to become a sort of authoritarian capitalist state similar to South Vietnam (1955-1975), Taiwan (1949-1996) and South Korea (1948-1987) during the Cold War? Obviously not as dictatorial as these nations, but similar to modern-day illiberal democracies such as Russia and Turkey, with a dominant party political system and crackdowns on the opposition.

In my view it seems like an earlier end to denazification, in 1948 during the Berlin Blockade for example, could lead to such a result, with eventual democratisation by the 80s.
 
My Cold War TL has a relatively illiberal West Germany right now, though it's less of a military dictatorship, and more of a functional electoral system where the military/deep state has an unusual degree of power, like Turkey before the 1980 coup. Jury is out on how plausible it is.
 
Konrad Adenauer dies during the war, preventing the CDU from arising. Due to fears of the SDP, the British are pressured by the Americans to not crackdown on the FDP in 1953, resulting in them becoming a DVNP like entity often in coalition with the Center Party against the SDP. To this end, the new German Army would probably be organized along the lines a lot of the old Wehrmacht Generals wanted, in that it'd be an independent, Rightist bastion. Chaos of 1968 comes and you get a crackdown to follow it.
 
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