Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Public Debates and Political Change
- 3 The Culture of Contrition
- 4 The Victim Culture
- 5 Combating the Far Right in Germany
- 6 Taming the Far Right in Austria?
- 7 Conclusions and Extensions
- Appendix A Coding Scheme for Die Zeit Content Analysis
- Appendix B Breakdown of Interviews Conducted
- Appendix C Coding Semistructured Interviews with German Politicians
- Appendix D Coding Semistructured Interviews with Austrian Politicians
- Appendix E Question Set – Germany
- Appendix F Question Set – Austria
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix D - Coding Semistructured Interviews with Austrian Politicians
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Public Debates and Political Change
- 3 The Culture of Contrition
- 4 The Victim Culture
- 5 Combating the Far Right in Germany
- 6 Taming the Far Right in Austria?
- 7 Conclusions and Extensions
- Appendix A Coding Scheme for Die Zeit Content Analysis
- Appendix B Breakdown of Interviews Conducted
- Appendix C Coding Semistructured Interviews with German Politicians
- Appendix D Coding Semistructured Interviews with Austrian Politicians
- Appendix E Question Set – Germany
- Appendix F Question Set – Austria
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I conducted fifty semistructured interviews with Austrian politicians. In these interviews, I asked questions 1–4 from the German interviews and replaced question 5 with the following: “Do you think that Austria was a victim or a perpetrator during the Second World War?”
The answers to question 5 were scored as follows: −2 points for answers that described Austria only as a victim, −1 for answers that stressed Austrian victimization over complicity, 0 for the answer “both,” +1 for answers that stressed Austrian complicity over victimization, and +2 for answers that described Austria as a perpetrator.
The same procedure used for German interviews (see Appendix C) was used to assign positive and negative points to Austrian interviews. Composite contrition scores ranged from −9 (the least contrite) to +10 (the most contrite).
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005