A poll by the U.S. Army's Information and Education Division showed that few G.I.s in Germany were spending much time hating their former enemies. Some 34% of the newly arrived occupiers had a good word for the "Krauts"; 59% of those who had been there two months or longer thought they were O.K. When asked whom they liked best—Britons, Frenchmen or Germans—about half voted for the British, only 16% for the French; 23% favored the Germans. They found the Germans clean, friendly, and generally "like us."
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