The Germans' Image of America

The attitude of West Germans to Americans. Security and alliance
questions. Attitude to unification of Germany.

Topics: party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the polls in
the last Federal Parliament election; interest in foreign policy
reports in television news and in daily newspapers; interest in
information about the USA; sympathy scale for the USA, Great Britain,
the Soviet Union, Israel, Poland, France and Japan; interest in
politics; judgement on Japanese, American and German products on a
scale; perceived threat to the economy from the USA and Japan; most
important partner countries for the Federal Republic; postmaterialism
scale; sympathy scale for Bush, Gorbachev, Mitterand and Thatcher;
judgement on German-American relations and preference for a deepening
of the relations; influence of changes in Eastern Europe on
German-American relations; attitude to a complete American troop
withdrawal from the Federal Republic; attitude to unification of the
two German nations and to an acceleration of unification; attitude to
NATO membership of united Germany; attitude to the Oder-Neisse Line as
final western border of Poland; perceived support for German
unification from the USA, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union;
characterization of Germans, Americans and Japanese by means of a list
of characteristics; personal stays in the USA and contacts with
Americans; general contentment with life; living together with a
partner; government examination or {university} diploma; union
membership; religiousness; party inclination.