17% of Germans believe Jews have 'too much influence'

                                                                                   by Eldad Beck

Sixty-five years have passed since the end of the Second World War, but even today it would seem that many Germans still cling to the prejudice and racism which the Nazi party identified with.

A new poll conducted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for Political Education, a foundation with close ties to the German Social Democratic party, has found that one in 10 Germans wants "a new Fuehrer to lead the country with an iron fist", and that every third German thinks all foreign immigrants should be expelled from Germany if unemployment becomes a problem.

As for anti-Semitism, 17.2% of the survey's participants supported the statement that "Jews have too much influence in the world today".

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