Documents - Public Opinion

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21.	OMGUS Survey of German Reactions to Expellees and DPs (December 3, 1947) One of the biggest social challenges in all four occupation zones was the integration of Displaced Persons and ethnic German expellees from Eastern European regions that had belonged to Germany before....
22.	OMGUS Summary of Trends in German Public Opinion (December 17, 1947) The mood of the population in the American occupation zone declined over the course of 1946 and 1947. Difficult economic conditions meant that food and clothing were a central concern of growing....
23.	OMGUS Survey of Trends in German Public Opinion (1945-48) Between October 1945 and January 1948, the Americans carried out opinion polls in their occupation zone and in West Berlin on general trends in politics, the economy, and society. The results showed....
24.	OMGUS Survey of Expectations for the Marshall Plan (March 1948) In a June 1947 speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined his plan for a far-reaching aid program for the European economy. In the spring of 1948, two-thirds....
25.	OMGUS Survey of Prejudice and Anti-Semitism (April 1948) In the wake of the radical anti-Semitic policy of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, the Allies carefully observed German attitudes toward the Jews after 1945. This poll, taken in April 1948, demonstrated....
26.	OMGUS Survey of the Chief Cares and Worries since the Currency Reform (February-August 1948) The currency reform that was carried out in June 1948 in the Western occupation zones and....
27.	OMGUS Survey: How do the Germans View the Lastenausgleich? (November 1948) The equalization of financial burdens [Lastenausgleich] was enacted by the German Bundestag in 1952. Intended to balance out differences in the burdens imposed by the war on different population....
28.	Survey of German Attitudes toward Economic and Political Strikes (February 1949) After twelve years of Nazi rule and nearly four years of Allied occupation, Germans were no longer familiar with strikes as an instrument of economic and political struggle. Although the attitude....
29.	OMGUS Survey of Trends in German Public Opinion (1945-49) After the economic upswing that followed the currency reform in the summer of 1948, concerns about the supply of food and consumer goods finally showed a noticeable decline. The currency reform was....
30.	OMGUS Survey: The Public Compares Present and Past Economic Conditions (July 1949) In July 1949, about half of Germans in the American zone assessed their economic conditions more positively than they had a year earlier. The currency reform of June 1948 and Marshall Plan aid from....
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