Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: A straw poll was held on 24 September 1950 in WÃ 1\/4 rttemberg-Hohenzollern , WÃ 1\/4 rttemberg-Baden , and Baden regarding a merger of the three states .
Simplified: After World War the Kingdom of WÃ 1\/4 rttemberg became the Free Peoples ' State of WÃ 1\/4 rttemberg . After World War II the part of the Free Peoples ' State of WÃ 1\/4 rttemberg and the old Principality of Hohenzollern were joined to make WÃ 1\/4 rttemberg-Hohenzollern .