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Public Opinion Quarterly 10:78-84 (1946)
© 1946 American Association for Public Opinion Research

TRENDS IN WEHRMACHT MORALE

M. I. GURFEIN and MORRIS JANOWITZ

Lt. Col. M. I. Gurfein (a member of the New York Bar), under whose direction these studies were made, was Chief of Intelligence of the Psychological Warfare Division, SHAEF. Lt. Morris Janowitz, formerly in the Department of Justice, was an intelligence officer and analyst in the Psychological Warfare Division.

Surveys of German prisoners of war made shortly after they were captured reveal that the ideology of the German soldier remained singularly steadfast throughout the war, despite the overwhelming superiority of Allied military strength. Loyalty to Hitler and belief in secret weapons buoyed morale almost to the end. The pattern of collapse did not manifest itself strongly until February and March, 1945, two months before V-E Day.


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