Between four percent and 11 percent of the West German population “may be assumed to be anti-Jewish, “the Institute for Opinion Research, at Bielefeld, stated today in summing up the results of a public opinion survey conducted recently among a scientific sample of the German people.
According to the Institute, the survey showed that 79 percent “severely” condemned anti-Semitism as demonstrated through last Winter’s swastika-smearing incidents. Exactly one percent of the respondents “lauded” the incidents, many of these declaring that “The Jews are often at fault themselves” or “I believe they ought to go to Israel. ” Three percent, the Institute stated, refused to express an opinion, “probably because they are anti-Jewish.” Seven percent more were seen by the Institute as being “on the border line between anti-Semitism and indifference.”
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