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  1. German political party established 1871 to
  2. protect Catholic interests. Although
  3. alienated by Chancellor Bismarck's
  4. Kulturkampf 1873-78, in the following years
  5. the Zentrum became an essential component in
  6. the government of imperial Germany. The party
  7. continued to play a part in the politics of
  8. Weimar Germany before being barred by Hitler
  9. in the summer of 1933.
  10.