Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. It won't happen

That is an interesting history lesson.

In fact, after the Second World War, West Germany managed to keep the influence of the Protestant, colonial and Nazi Junkers of East Elbe to a minimum.

It wasn't that difficult either, the Junkers' power base had disappeared and their lands were now in communist states.

However, the article greatly exaggerates the relevance of western/eastern and catholic/protestant divisions for today's East Germany. In East Germany, there are quite banal regions that are left behind, with many dissatisfied people who harbor a grudge against the traditionally Western, bourgeois and indeed arrogant establishment.

Saxony, for example, is, as far as I know, not a traditional Junkerland and was only dominated by the Prussians at a late stage (the “zero” world war (7 year war) started when Prussia attacked Saxony).