Word: hausmacht
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...order to deprive neo-Nazis of a shield of respectability, and 3) eliminating the legal deadline on murder charges to allow the judiciary to weed out the last remaining Nazi war criminals. Strauss takes the opposite position on each issue, and has been using his growing strength in his Hausmacht (power base) to give weight to his views...
...today, the chief thing that Germans seem to remember about the Spiegel affair is the way Strauss bounced back from it. Besides his drive and brilliance both as an administrator and orator, the key to his resurgence is that he never lost control of his Bavarian Hausmacht. It paid off at the decisive caucus in 1966 at which he was able to act as kingmaker...
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