Three years of “democratization” have wrought little change in the racist opinion of Germans in the American zone and there has been only an inconclusive decrease of about one percent in the number of Germans who openly express anti-Semitic sentiments, a poll concluded by the Military government shows.
The poll, which was aimed at evaluating the American education program in Germany, revealed that late teen-age are more apt to be anti-Semitic than other age groups- -a fact which the report indicated is of great significance because the teen-age population is the one on which hopes for a future democratic Germany must be based. In addition the Survey pointed out that racial prejudices, including ant-Semitism, are more evident among women then men and in rural rather than urban populations. In addition it found that eight percent more Germans now admit to racial prejudices–though not necessarily anti-Semitism–than did in the last similar poll of December 1946.
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