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11.   OMGUS Survey on Attitudes toward Collective Guilt (December 1946)
According to a poll in the American zone, at the end of 1946 a majority of Germans were willing to accept responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi regime or to acknowledge their shared responsibility.....
12.   OMGUS Survey on Attitudes toward General Economic Conditions (January 15, 1947)
In November 1946, about half of those surveyed anticipated an economic upswing in the American occupation zone and in the British and American sectors of Berlin within six months. Likewise, about....
13.   OMGUS Survey on Public Attitudes toward Denazification (1946-47)
Before the end of the war, the Allies had already decided on the “denazification” of the Germans, and they reaffirmed this decision at the Potsdam....
14.   OMGUS Survey of Trends in German Public Opinion (1945-47)
Between October 1945 and April 1947, the Americans conducted a series of interviews involving more than 75,000 individuals. The interviews were held in the American zone and in the American and British....
15.   OMGUS Survey on German Opinion toward the Prospective Peace Treaty (June 1947)
In June 1947, the vast majority of Germans still hoped for the speedy conclusion of a peace treaty, despite the recent failure of the foreign ministers’ conference in Moscow, where the Allies had....
16.   OMGUS Survey on Attitudes toward the Food Situation (1946-47)
In the first two years after the end of the war, the food shortage was the main problem for most Germans. The Allies helped to ease the situation with substantial food shipments, which supplemented....
17.   OMGUS Survey on German Attitudes toward Corporal Punishment (no date)
After the war, opinion surveys in the American zone not only sought to examine current political and economic questions but also tried to gather information on the German “national character.” Investigating....
18.   OMGUS Survey of Trends in Attitudes toward National Socialism (1945-47)
Despite the lost World War and the spread of information on Nazi crimes, about half of the Germans in the American occupation zone between 1945 and 1947 clung to the National Socialist program and....
19.   OMGUS Survey of German Opinions on the Organization of Europe (August 1947)
It became evident as early as August 1947 that Germany would only be able to attain greater economic and political sovereignty within the framework of new European structures. Thus, the organization....
20.   OMGUS Survey of German Opinions on the Socialization of Industry (November 1947)
The most important Allied agreements on postwar Germany called for the nationalization of the economy, especially heavy industry, in order to prevent the concentration of economic power and the rearmament....
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