Language:
German
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (2007) 163-194
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Analyzes the poll conducted in West Germany in August 1949, by the Institut für Demoskopie, in regard to how Germans had felt about the imposition on the Jews of wearing a yellow star during the Nazi period. The great majority of respondents remembered disapproving of this imposition. (Goebbels concluded that it had been a mistake and that it had provoked "a wave of sympathy" for the Jews.) The Institut recorded characteristics of the respondents, such as age, gender, level of education, and religious affiliation, but did not correlate these with their responses. The present analysis finds that women disapproved somewhat more than men; Catholics more than Protestants; and older generations and the less educated more than the young and the better educated, whose socialization had taken place under the Nazis.
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