Germans' interest in remembering Nazi past declines

2025-04-30 08:34:03 / BOTA ALFA PRESS

Germans' interest in remembering Nazi past declines

People in Germany sometimes have large gaps in their knowledge of the Nazi dictatorship and are increasingly less willing to approach the Third Reich critically.

For the first time, a relative majority of the population wants to draw a “line” under Germany’s Nazi past in terms of memory culture, as shown by the new Memo study by the “Remembrance Responsibility Future” foundation (“Erinnerung Verantwortung Zukunft” (EVZ)).

Only 42.8 percent of respondents said it was important for them to keep the memory of the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship alive.

According to the results, 38.1 percent of respondents completely or somewhat agreed with the thesis that it is “time to remove a dividing line under the era of National Socialism (Nazi dictatorship)”. 37.2% were partially or completely against this idea. Since 2018, this question has been asked in a similar way in four previous Foundation memo studies – but this time, for the first time, the majority of respondents expressed themselves differently.

 

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