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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/37631/full/37631/german-teens-jews-deserved-holocaust/ <br /><br /> <b>German teens: Jews ‘deserved’ Holocaust</b> <br /> Thursday, March 26, 2009 | by <br /><br /><p>More than 14 percent of German teenagers in a survey said Jews must have deserved to be persecuted in the Holocaust.</p> <p>“Youth as Victims and Perpetrators of Violence,” a poll of 44,610 German students, also found that about one in every 20 German teenage boys belongs to a far-right group.</p> <p>The survey, conducted by the Hanover-based Criminal Research Institute, found that far more German boys aged 15 belong to extremist groups than to mainstream political youth clubs. In some towns, membership in far-right groups is as high as 10 percent, while in others it is nonexistent.</p> <p>Among boys of German background, 7 percent in former East German states showed clear signs of anti-Semitism and xenophobia, as opposed to 3 percent in western states. The institute’s director, Christian Pfeiffer, suggested it might be due to the decades of anti-Israel propaganda promoted in the former communist East Germany.</p> <p>In all questions related to far-right identification and anti-Semitism, “boys are far above the girls,” Pfeiffer noted, adding that in general, the survey also found that girls who joined far-right groups usually were following a boyfriend.</p> <p>German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the survey made clear that more funding is needed for youth sports clubs in trouble spots around the country.</p> <p>“It is important to get to these youngsters who feel there is nothing else out there for them,” said Juliane Wetzel, an expert on educational programs at the Berlin-based Center for Research on Anti-Semitism.</p>

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