Study title

Degree of political interest and media usage, valuations on international policy and the balance of power, personal pre-military training completed, effectiveness of pre-military training and paramilitary of the Gesellschaft fuer Sport und Technik {society for sport and technology} (GST). Topics: Solidarity with the GDR; attitude to the Soviet Union and its army; stand on Marxist-Leninist world view; willingness to defend the GDR and reasons for this; assessment of the readiness of soldiers in the Federal German Armed Forces to shoot; possibility of preventing a war through peace forces; evaluation of the politics of the FRG government; assessment of the character of the Federal German Armed Forces; assessment of the balance of power between imperialism and socialism; assessment of the jeopardy to the Soviet Union from the stationing of USA missiles; representation of revanchist goals by the FRG government; preference of military or non-military support of the GDR for socialist states; knowledge of political personalities; assessment of personal ability to explain military facts and problems (scale); interest in political events; frequency of use of GDR and FRG media for political information and preferred position; frequency of reading the daily newspaper and other magazines for political information (scale); satisfaction with the magazine "Konkret" regarding the treatment of military questions (scale); use of agitation and propaganda materials of the GST (scale); conducting military policy schooling; evaluation of various forms of pre-military training (scale); type or length of previous activity in pre-military training and future career; place of obtaining knowledge of activity in pre-military training (scale); feeling of responsibility as political instructor and personal conversations with trainees; assessment of success as instructor (scale); self-assessment of personality characteristics (scale); assessment of pre-military...