West Germans in 1951 ranked Jews last among deserving victims.
Evidence
For example, the US High Commissioner for Germany (HICOG) had in 1951 published the results of an opinion survey in German institutes, in which one of the questions asked was which groups had the greatest claim to assistance. `Public opinion’ produced a hierarchy which was symptomatic of the times: war widows and orphans came first; second, those who had been bombed; third, those who had been expelled from the East; and, fourth, the resistance fighters of 20 July 1944, when there was an attempted assassination of Hitler. Only then came the Jews. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 470
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: A poll hierarchy that places the survivors of genocide behind bombed-out civilians and expelled Germans is a compact index of postwar German moral ordering — hard to shake off.
- XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s later Studies in Prejudice findings on antisemitism among American workers and to the denazification material elsewhere in this book. — connects to: Early 1950s German public ranked Jewish claims to aid last among suffering groups — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1905; Most postwar Germans rejected shared guilt; academics and farmers were most anti-Semitic — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1887; German Turkish communities evoke the Holocaust to measure their own victimization. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 890
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Early 1950s German public ranked Jewish claims to aid last among suffering groups — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1905; Most postwar Germans rejected shared guilt; academics and farmers were most anti-Semitic — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1887; German Turkish communities evoke the Holocaust to measure their own victimization. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 890
Broader Connections
- Early 1950s German public ranked Jewish claims to aid last among suffering groups
#corroborates(1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1905