25 percent of Germans find good in Nazis

BERLIN, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- One quarter of the Germans surveyed for a recent magazine poll cited some positive achievements of the Nazi regime.

They included the building of Germany's highway network, low unemployment and crime under Nazi rule and the Nazi emphasis on the family, Deutsche Welle reported.

The Forsa agency conducted the poll for Stern magazine. Germnay has been involved in an uproar about how to view its past since Eva Herman, a television presenter, was dismissed for suggesting that family values were better during the Nazi era.

"The insecurity about how to deal with Nazism is huge, as is ignorance," Stern said in a story on the poll. "Eva Herman has unwittingly kicked off a long-neglected debate," Stern magazine wrote in a cover story."

Dieter Grauman, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said that the poll is a "warning sign."

"The result of the poll is ugly, disastrous and makes me sad and angry," he told the on-line publication Netzeitung.