archaeogeek
Banned
'course, IIRC the OTL note suggested that Denazification would be stopped.
Heh, that would be an interesting turn of events - someone else than Adenauer is in power (maybe a SPD-FDP-possibly Zentrum [if we get clear information on how they were in '52] coalition led by a Schumacher that missed the concentration camps), the Note is considered seriously, a Four Power Conference is convened... and flops as the Soviet Union fails to provide terms acceptable to the West Germans or the Western Allies (in this matter, I expect the Wallies to listen careful to the FRG if they say no, though not necessarily if they say yes).
That was basically Adenauer's fear; gaining the east back = CDU/CSU isn't in a position to dominate anymore because of heavier SPD (and Zentrum) regions where the CDU can't hope significant gains: have a more organized "Anti-Adenauer" coalition and the main reason it flopped isn't there anymore, instead you end up with reunited germany and today's multiparty politics and both the KPD and CDU have to learn to play nicer earlier.