Talk:Weimar Coalition

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[edit] Weimar Coalition post-WWII

Does anyone notice the post-Second World War successors of the Weimar Coalition political parties are the major political parties in Germany today, except the Die Linke and Green Party? Are there sources that dote on this?--JNZ (talk) 19:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't think you can call the CDU a successor of the centre party. The 'C' is for 'Christian', not for 'Catholic'. Yaan (talk) 13:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Obviously not in the literal organizational sense as the Centre Party was (and is) still on the scene post-WWII wise. But there is no denying that the first crop of post-war CDU politicians were mostly members of Centre Party in the Weimar Republic, and with them the pre-war Centre Party's supports went across the board to the CDU. You can argue that the CDU in a sense is like an ideological successor to the Centre Party in the post-war West Germany, perhaps not organizationally but rather on a de facto (effectively) basis. --JNZ (talk) 20:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't think so. The Centre party was strictly catholic. It basically was a non-entity outside the catholic areas. The CDU is (and was) not. Yaan (talk) 10:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)