German reunification has generated a new interest in federalism. Centralism has been discredited with the end of the Communist Party' dictatorship in East Germany. Soon after the outbreak of the “peaceful revolution” the call for unification of the East German Länder grew louder, despite the fact that they were created in 1946 by the Soviet Military Occupation. On July 23, 1952 the East German Government enacted the “Law Concerning the Further Democratization of the Construction and Mode of Operation of State Organs in the Länder of the German Democratic Republic [GDR]” Concealed behind this euphemistic title was the order to disband. The Lander were required to set up administrative districts and to transfer their jurisdictions to them.