Chapter 178
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Within the FDP, some had suggested dropping the bomb earlier to further weaken the CDU, but the CDU were no fools.
There was no way that Konrad Adenauer would be unprepared, and could the CDU's power, which was already close to a solo run, really be broken by a single scandal?
Besides, the morning paper was more than enough to let the majority of the people know.
In an era with no internet and very few TVs, newspapers were the only means for people to get information in the morning, and their status was incomparable to their modern counterparts.
Moreover, the Frankfurter Zeitung, already a major German daily that had played a key role in the civil war, had become a newspaper read in almost every household in Germany.
When an article was published in the Frankfurter Zeitung, with the regular newspaper distributed at dawn on election day and an extra edition printed and spread early in the morning, the ripple effect was enormous.
If they had had just one more day, the CDU would have had time to respond by having Halder resign and refuting my editorial.
Voters might have felt betrayed by Halder, who had portrayed himself as a patriot, but if they had time to hear the party's explanation and think it over, they likely wouldn't have withdrawn their support.