After World War II, the Catholics in the zone occupied by the Soviet army found themselves under a hostile government.
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With exception of the Eichsfeld, a small Catholic area in the northwestern part of Thuringia, which was a former property of the archdiocese of Mainz, Catholics were a small minority right from the start of Communist rule.
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