U.S.-German Relations

As the U.S. and Germany prepare to gain new leadership, their relationship remains unbalanced in the minds of their citizenries. Americans see Germany as a partner on many foreign policy issues, but Germans mostly do not.

At a time of rising tensions between their countries, people in the United States and Germany express increasingly divergent views about the status of their decades-long partnership.

Take a look at six charts on how Germans and Americans see one another and how German attitudes toward the United States have shifted in the Trump era.

Americans and Germans also have different views on which element of their countries' relationship is most important – economy, defense or shared democratic values.

The U.S.-Germany relationship has been a cornerstone in international relations. Yet, people in both countries differ in their views of the bilateral relationship.