Decades after Nazi propaganda ended, one in five Germans still endorsed anti-Jewish views

Evidence

In 2015, two researchers set out to determine the effects of Nazi propaganda on modern-day beliefs about Jews some fifty years after the war. The researchers looked at two waves of the ‘German General Social Survey’ – an important national poll of social attitudes – which, among many other topics, asked 5,000 people seven questions about attitudes towards Jews across 264 German cities, once in 1996 and then again ten years later in 2006. The combined data shows that about 17 per cent of Germans thought that Jews themselves were to blame for their own persecution, and about 22 per cent still believed that Jews should not have equal rights. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 271

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to prior reading on how sustained state propaganda leaves long-lived belief residues; similar durability patterns to caste ideology persistence in Ambedkar materials. — connects to: Anti-semitic resentment declines steadily across German postwar generations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1194; Most postwar Germans rejected shared guilt; academics and farmers were most anti-Semitic — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1887; Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-semitic resentment declines steadily across German postwar generations #contradicts (0.85) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1194
• Most postwar Germans rejected shared guilt; academics and farmers were most anti-Semitic #qualifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1887
• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding #expands (0.78)
• Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527