Hoerner, Julian M.Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni2025-10-222025-10-222025Hoerner JM, Rodon T. The impact of holocaust survivors' testimonies and politicians' framings on political attitudes in Germany. Nations Natl. 2025 Sep 6. DOI: 10.1111/nana.700131354-5078http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71621How do politicians' framings of the need to remember the past shape contemporary political attitudes? This research note addresses this question by focusing on the case of the memory of the Holocaust in Germany. We conduct a survey experiment in which respondents are confronted with a testimony by a Holocaust survivor on its own or by that testimony followed by an excerpt from a speech by a politician either emphasizing the need to remember the past or minimizing it. Our results suggest that politicians' framings have an important effect on respondents' attitudes on the importance to remember and on agreement with certain antisemitic statements. Furthermore, we find significant differences in the reaction of respondents from eastern and western Germany and among those with extreme ideological views.application/pdfeng© 2025 The Author(s). Nations and Nationalism published by Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/article2025-10-22http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nana.70013AntisemitismCultures of remembranceFar-rightGermanyHolocaustMemory politicsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess