5 points
the liberals
Zentrum
How?
It was literally THE conservative catholic party. That was its entire thing.
Well that and the OG culture war.
4 points
Zentrum was strongly Catholic, but not conservative in the German tradition. It was not militarist and believed strongly in a restricted economic role for the state, as well as nominal democracy and minority rights, and relied on the support of the middle class. You could maybe argue that Zentrum wasn’t a liberal party in the German Empire, but in the Weimar Republic it very much was a liberal party, in the literal and abstract classical sense.
