Public Attitudes Toward Democracy in Post-War Germany

Attitude to the Third Reich and democracy in post-war Germany.
Political attitudes.

Topics: Judgement on current financial situation; judgement on the pay
of workers; judgement on the regard for workers in the Third Reich;
consent with the policies of Adenauer; attitude to the necessity of
particular abilities for members of Parliament; members of Parliament
in the constituency; knowledge of activities of constituency
representative; readiness of the representative to deal with the
problems of respondent; knowledge about the number of representatives
in Federal Parliament; attitude to a parliament with a significantly
reduced number of representatives; judgement on the situation in 1933
as election between communism or National Socialism; responsibility for
the start of war; assessment of Hitler as great statesman on the
assumption that there had been no war; political interest; attitude
regarding a new National Socialist Party; attitude to increased protest
behavior regarding the government; judgement on the job of the Federal
Parliament; knowledge about the governing parties; party closeness and
party preference; attitude to a one or multi-party system; attitude to
defense of democracy at any price.

Demography: state; city size; religious denomination; age
(classified); school education; occupational position; income;
respondent is head of household; marital status; party inclination;
sex.

Also encoded was: city size.