International Relations (West Germany)

Attitudes to the military development of the USA and the Soviet Union.
Topics:
opinion on various countries (England, France, USA, USSR);
good and bad characteristics of the USSR or the USA;
judgement about political personalities of various countries;
attitude to atomic energy;
block affiliation of West Germany;
block affiliation in the case of war;
danger of a world war in the next few years;
efforts of the USSR/USA to avoid a new world war;
judgement on the USA and USSR in a competition without war;
scientific development in the USSR;
USA and the other western powers in comparison;
military power of the USSR, the USA and the West in comparison;
relation between the USSR and other western countries regarding nuclear weapons;
possibilities to secure peace for West Germany;
knowledge about the NATO;
trust in the effectiveness of NATO;
rearmament in the FRG;
withdrawal of US military forces from West Germany;
armament with nuclear weapons;
provocation of Russia through nuclear weapon armament;
knowledge about the NATO conference;
effect of the conference on the military strength of NATO;
knowledge about Sputnik;
influence of the Sputnik success on opinion about Russia;
superiority of Russia in scientific development;
superiority of the capability of the Sowjet system;
impression of the scientific development of Russia;
military danger from the scientific development of Russia;
opportunities of West Germany to react to the calculation by Russia;
relation of West Germany with the USA;
political and military cooperation with the USA;
West Germany as partner of the USA with equal rights;
race discrimination in the USA;
development of equal rights of certain population groups in the
USA in the last 10 years.
Demography:
sex;
age;
occupation;
education;
party preference;
social class;
city size;
state.
Also encoded was:
date of interview.