Survey: Some Austrians say everything wasn’t so bad under Hitler

VIENNA – An Austrian survey has found that 42 per cent of respondents said that “not everything was bad under Adolf Hitler,” whose Nazi government had annexed Austria 75 years ago.

The survey also found that 54 per cent of the 502 respondents said a Nazi party would have some success in democratic elections today, and that 61 per cent support the concept of a “strong man” as leader.

The poll was commissioned by the Der Standard newspaper and reported on by the Austria Press Agency on Friday, a day before publication by the paper.

The Market Institut survey organization gave no margin of error, but surveys of this size sometimes have one of plus or minus more than 4 percentage points.

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