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FOREWORD

During World War II Psychological Warfare became recogshy

nized as an important weapon at the disposal of all combatants

Its dual aim was to build up the users home-front his troops

and his allies and at the same time attack undermine and destroy

those of the enemy Truths half - truths lies and rumors were

spread by as many different media as there were means to carry

the written and spoken word

In the field of propaganda which was the principal tool

employed the Germans became past masters The methOds and

effect of one phase of this propaganda that of selling a bill of

goods not only to Germany herself but to the world at large

is already well known It is with another phase which may be

called Battle Field Propaganda that this booklet is concerned

On the folloWing pages are reproductions of a few of the

propaganda leaflets that were employed by the Germans against

units of VI Corps during World War II These leaflets were

occaSionally dropped from airplanes but were more often fired

by means of a special artillery or mortar projectile Some of

these leaflets were found to be clever and well done while others

were crude makeshift and judging by our standards often in

poor taste

gtshyThe leaflets that follow are only a sampling of the total

encountered but they serve to illustrate the many differenJ

themes used by the Germans Many are an attempt to split

the Allies while others attempt to de~troy the soldiers faith in

the home front his Commander-in-Chief his girl his friends

and his country Much of the propaganda is Anti-Semitic which

was a favorite Nazi theme while a good deal of it appealed

directly to the individual soldier in telling him that death awaited

him as long as he ~ontinued the fight

In addition to the small pamphlets a bi-monthly newspaper

dubbed The Lightning News was used by the Germans Also

there were daily broadcasts by Sally over Jerrys radio station

and the frequent use of front line loud-speakers But whatev~r

the method and regardless of the words used the idea behind

the whole program was to make the soldier soft unhappy lose

the desire to fight and desert

It is difficult to gauge the effect of this propaganda on each

individual soldier however on this command as a whole it

achieved practically nothing as the morale of the combat troops

was excellent throughout the many extended and difficult camshy

paigns Thus the net results of Goebbels efforts in Battle Field

Propaganda against VI Corps is this souvenir booklet dedicated

for future generations to read

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BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS

JAN21944 JUNE61944

(S~~DIERS Of THE UMITED MmOM 1M ITALY PROUDLY DYING FOR WALL STREETI

Thi dplo~ I orNIIHed with porlra 01 pron~ A_rlcan8 for whom YOUbullbullbull lei In he run eenee are Mcriikl wr heltb and Ilkgt It h1I no be he only rewrd ha Wall Streel Ie 011 you

For Ihl~rflce Ie Ieo 10 receive eell rKOtDllloo n Ihe ihape 01 lhe h _morl ckpickd below and ere1ed b~ one of Aerkomiddot be ICUlpIon bull ~

II will be plolaquoCl at Ih~ foot of won Streel on eIenIa ~Ion of rolllude For Ibe wllllnn_ oIlhaM ooIdlen wlao pellenlly fou~ld died For Wall StreetbullbullItoIt

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rorqollen an the dayt hen ~hapdy Joan I hlpkins ~IlS sull sellint ribil()n8 in a 5 and 10 ds store in Nc~ ork Cily As privale secrelary to slick Sam Le~y hig money maker in tbe war busioc88 she rose In be a sugar Iadltiys darli~

Sam dido have anycasb hen ht gol tnried arid he (Jeo like 10 be reminded of his early (111y8 on the 10 er ulid Side The war was jusl Ib~ hI thing for him Lik(gt many other home-warriol8 he made the grade piling lip (Jouqh and rowinf fal on the 88crific(s of those ) OUOt

American boy ehling on forej 4tJ1 ballle8c1dH

AI hearl Joan is nol a bad woman For over Iwo years she had nol seen her Rance clean-cut Bob Harrison whom Hhe cans ror very much Bob WflS shiJlpecl 10 Europe 10 6(hl rorlhe cau8eof Sem Levy and his khd

Two year ~ a long time for any girl For more than hair a Ylar ~ hd nol heard from Bob I Ie seemed 10 be alllORf the ml88in

Some sunny aflernoont h~wever when Joan and Sam were Ieppinc oul of h~ Bonwil Tellers sho on FiClh Avenue she w Ipftchless b e tllthl of bull man tn uniform

II w ____I lor ber nd it WM alio a dreadful middotbIow 10 Bob lor II wbullbull he who 8U(Jd~nJ stood opposite her - 00 cndchet OM We bullbullpulaled

Two lives - 105t to on onother forever look for the other pic of this series

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SAM KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS

Two years age comely Joan Hopkins was still a salesgirl behind the ribbon counter in a New

York 5 6r 10 cts state getting 12 dollars a week (i

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with Joan A~d sl1ould he have any Tall

and hon~ BQb HprrisonJoans ~ fiorce is

on the ~onf t~OJI~Qn~s of mil~s cJwoy fiQhttng

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When pren~ Imm t Jopkitul rihhot) ltollnler of S amp 10 clsslort on New York CiI she never dreamed 01 Interior or a dUIh~x Yark Avenue

wos still Sltmdingbeilind 3rd Avenue

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voung Bob Harrison the man she loves Boh Was drptc~ IUld sent to thebattle8eldsin Eumpe Iho~lt~atlds of miltlf

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OW8) from her Through laz8res Employment A~(mcy Joao gol a job as private secretary with wily SitmLcvy Sam is piling up big money on wal contracts ShOIJ~ lhe liIlaughter end very soon he would ttuffer an apopJecUe slri)Ilt

Now Joan knows what Bob andtlis l paJs are fighting fOrA f ij

Joan alwuysused 0 001lt UIto Bob alii the uidinv star ~ of her life and she ~a8 still a Rood girl when she started worklnlaquoFor Sa~Levy Sutshe orten laquo01 the blues tltink~ lb of Bob whom sbe hachi seeb for oer two years

hoes had artundenlandinl heart ami was always verY kind to ~ her 80 kind indeed lhat he uften invited h~t up ltIohteiplace lie bad alwaY8 wan led to show her his ~tehing~ BesideeSamiwasn stingy and eaCh lime Joan came 10 see himbullhe ve bel the nicest prc8tm18 Now

bull tIwo_n l bulllte beautiful and txpensivc things But Smn

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wasbt the men OU eCJuld pia for 6 sucker He wanlclt1 tCet~ibi wented it cry deftlliteJ 1 bull

still thinking of Bob yet she Is Qmost hoping that hell never return

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of Mrcp LevY~ig IIl niticentns roan shytactrer fo invite those of hi (et~ale empl(jy~e$ who have bull (riend or fiance at the NeUu~ front fie had considerately clled it a Netbmo Prty 11 lulle num~ of armaments manufcturera was also preHut

AI first the tirlbullbull of course were lJ04Iewbt r_eed but the whisky ana the other drink were so excellent that oon everybody was haYlnt a trand time There was only one 1iQ~ln Incident - when one of tbe tir] suddenly left tL ~bullbullxclaimfnt c~

1 ___ hope that 1QY Joe to be IJO dumb a to pak hi Itpounde or health pound01 YOu propoundlteeu aDd racketeers I

Apuf from thi middotlip of the f9nllue nothlnll lse polled the fun E the party

If i tlery comfortin for the boy at the c

front to lenow that l tbelr tIr - when tbgt

are Pf~ty bull areu iIlke ear of

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vtlwusantl of your pals visited him and prelerred 1 taf - -~ imiddot middottl him torever

This time however tbe ad ot the sea vas tickled to ~(~h thaI sou didhhn the bODor 0pound calliofl 00 him in

the very place that was named after bim

Nepu~e waaJut ~f~ini a new collection of American and ~~iitilb ~ poundor his iUli)OUf

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TOO A vi -exactly threemonths of hard fighting have passed and you oan now oelebrate this event 81ft it is still merelyena beaohmiddot head paved with the skulls of thousands of British and American soldiers I

-Th ampeach Head has ~ a Deaths ~

It is welcomi You with a grin and also those who are comins after you aoross the sea for an

~ppointment with death shy

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And which eYer woy you you only more uch IftountoinmoIochs woitint hungi1y for YOU

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rot week and week the Alii have dar_In nU their re80ureee inlo Ihe blIl of Cbullbullbullfno

BUT AL LIN VA N I The heevietll homhardmenl of lho Iialien capa by ttll from air wU 10 blaol ) Ihe Germaa defender And in r1 bont I()O Allied dropped _ IJaoo Me f H s OIl the lIule Iowa or C_lno I Ib aped or bull 1- hoed

Bul hon the poundS from llie air and lbe Ihe Go roae from lheir fxhold r 1 ~ Ih mefta of lbe 2nd N_ leelbullbullbull _ 4th PlY __ b) Ibullbullk

Could ha be fhe GeTman lIoidier lto accordlnfl 10 Allied press Jnd radio repoda i bull bullbull-er in he Ii I I h yea r 0 hill co II i c t I

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campaign speeches

oycd rOlc from one yea r r dependenh~ o~er 45 million

e USA were Iiilaquo in miKer)

- and he knew it oJ to be done

- nled Ihe fairy - tale Ihal Ihe Ai Po)lten

short of wer mede them shorter ~rter until he had HIS wer

) birdH with one tone hy plunging hi cunlry into kar

- 1101 rid r Ihe unemposed hy shippinll m bull bull 1 of Ihem to he ils of Europe a cannon fodder The real aJgtorbed by

mamenl indust ry in teml)Orary arlime jOb8+

co n do he tllUised rat overn-ment canlracti on to hiM rich 8POUfJOrl1l n Ilaruehbull Lehmnnbull i1orllenlhauo Warburllbullbull (l jberllo and hf like Ih 8 urdinlaquo Ihem ror Iheir caoh donation du rinll edlun tjme Ihi~ moneyed ong i N reapinc col08al l)Follls U8 usual

So you sec Ihal Mr Roosevell had gHod reasons for running after the war

One of hi opokmltll lames H ilc Graw Jr preoiden of he Me GrawshyHill-Publihinu COUlIBIlY n~ Iul It blunlly by wrilinl in the Merth 1942 S8ue of Ihe nltl4tarine Aiulion n

And this very definitely is OUR wer The American people howecr in Iheir unimpehbt judeemeDl hi riUhl by yinll

This is the RICH mans war and thePoOR mans fight