Language:
German
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (2012) 325-369
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Compares data collected by the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) on German attitudes toward the Jews in 1996 and 2006. The 2006 survey shows a growth in negative attitudes. In 1996, 18% of the Germans expressed antisemitic attitudes; by 2006 the number had risen to 22.3%. The same trend was noticeable among Germans from both former East and West Germany. German guilt regarding Nazi crimes did not grow over the studied period, despite much official attention to the Holocaust and investment in Holocaust education. Respondents who felt no guilt for the Holocaust (15%) also displayed strong antisemitic tendencies. Others, however, who did acknowledge some sense of guilt, held the Jews partly responsible for their own persecution and/or as benefiting from it. Nearly one-third of all Germans, both in 1996 and in 2006, viewed the Jews as having too much global influence. The survey also traced the effect of age, education, and profession on antisemitic attitudes, and studied the connection between antisemitic and generally xenophobic attitudes.
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