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Center PartyGerman political party formed to support Roman Catholic interests. It was active in the Second Reich from the 1870s, when it came into conflict with Otto von Bismarck in the Kulturkampf, to 1933, when it was dissolved by the Nazi-dominated government. It was the first party of imperial Germany to cut across class and state lines, but because it represented the Roman Catholics, who were concentrated in southern Germany, it never won a parliamentary majority. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Since 1900, ambitious Tory politicians have periodically called for a Center Party that would provide consensus leadership on a national basis while repudiating the extremes of Right and Left. The party that up till then had enjoyed their support, the Liberale Reichspartei, could not hold on to sufficient Catholic voters to matter as a competitor of the strengthened Center Party. Shall we ask where the Vatican and the bishops were when Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party was sacrificed to Mussolini, or when the German Catholic Center Party, led by a priest, voted unanimously to confer dictatorial powers on Adolph Hitler? |
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