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Nazi Indoctrination and Anti-Semitic Beliefs in Germany

Nico Voigtländer, Hans-Joachim Voth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(26), pp. 7931-7936 (2015)

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Abstract

Attempts at modifying public opinions, attitudes, and beliefs range from advertising and schooling to "brainwashing". Their effectiveness is highly controversial. In this paper, we use survey data to show that Nazi indoctrination was highly effective.

Keywords
indoctrination, anti-Semitism, schooling, persistence, Nazi Germany
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1414822112
Canonical
https://www.jvoth.com/papers/taught-to-hate.html

Nico Voigtländer, Hans-Joachim Voth (2015). “Nazi Indoctrination and Anti-Semitic Beliefs in Germany.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.