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Despite the fact that some Americans view East Germany as having some sort of parallels with the Third Reich, given the fact that for all intents and purposes it was a single-party state (SED) which suspended some personal liberties and had a powerful intelligence-security apparatus, it was nevertheless more throughly and intensively de-Nazified than West Germany, especially in the political realm. Hence why a sizable portion of the representatives of the nascent CDU were former members of the Nazi Party, most notably Kurt Georg Kiessinger, who was elected chancellor in 1966.

My ultimate question is, is it possible that as a result of political events in West Germany, say someone to the left of Willy Brandt is elected chancellor and is seen as being too soft and conciliatory to the Warsaw Pact, that people in the General Staff of the Bundeswehr or senior agents in the Federal Intelligence Service launches a coup, and installs some sort of junta regime similar to the military junta of Greece or even the presidential dictatorship of Pinochet?

Would the United States tolerate this development, like it did with Spain when it was rebranded from a fascist state to a national-security government sympathetic to anti-communism? How would the Soviet Union and France react, especially if there is an irredentist or revanchist tinge to this new regime?
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