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In modern warfare, weapons, the economy, physical resources and organization play a role. So too do spirit and soul.
A new and sinister weapon
is used against a nation's spiritual strength: Propaganda! Germany lost the World War of 1914-19 because it did not recognize the danger of enemy propaganda. It collapsed spiritually.
That m
ay not and will not happen again. Enemy propaganda wants to break the German people's will to resist by slanders, rumors, suspicions, and with political, military, or simply general lies.
The methods of enemy propaganda include: leaflets appeals, false pictures, atrocity stories, rumors, radio incitement and
systematic complaining.
All those who are reached by enemy propaganda and have their will to victory reduced by it, whether consciously or unconsciously, are tools of enemy propaganda.
Complainers and grumblers, doubters and agitators are the enemy's spiritual Foreign Legionnaires amidst the German people.
It is often only a short step from doubting the justice of one's cause to the complete collapse of the will to resist. The World War proved this!
Ho
w do I respond to enemy propaganda?
If I encounter enemy propaganda in word, print, picture, radio, in conversation about the news or through rumors, it depends on my intelligence and good sense
whether or not I render it ineffective.
I immediately collect the enemy propaganda material and explain what it is to citizens who have come in contact with it.
I know that the greatest danger of enemy propaganda is in the phrase: "There must be some truth in it."
I am careful in all my conversations and correspondence. Letters an
d conversations could reach the enemy and provide him with material.
I strengthen the will to victory of citizens who may be wavering.
If I encounter citizens who are being overcome by enemy propaganda, I confront them direcly and make clear to them the enormous danger they face, appealing to their sense of honor.
Anyone who becomes a tool of enemy propaganda and contributes to weakening our spiritual strength places himself outsid
e the national community. He should not be surprised if he is treated as an enemy of the people and of the state. If all my warnings are in vain, I do my duty and turn him over to the authorities. <
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I actively oppose enemy propaganda whenever I encounter it. I also do this with foreigners and friends abroad whom I talk with or write to. If I have German propaganda material at hand, I include it in my letters.
If I find or am given enemy propaganda material, I quickly write in large, clear letters "Enemy propaganda" on it and turn it over immediately to the
nearest police station.
I do not show such enemy propaganda material to strangers.
I obey all regulations against listening to foreign radio stations, not only because there are severe penalties but also because I view it as an obvious patriotic duty.
I know that enemy propaganda material is an enemy method of warfare.
Enemy Propaganda is poison!
He who falls for it is lost.
(Contri
buted by A.B.)
Background:
In 1940, the Nazis put out a booklet titled "What Do I Do in an Emergency?"
It included information on what to do in various crisis si
tuations,
and was to be kept by the telephone, kitchen, or other highly visible place.
It included material on first aid, conduct during air raids, etc.
But it also included several pages on how to deal with enemy propaganda. That is the section I translate here:
The Source: Der ReichsfÃԚ Ô�šÃ”š¼hrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei, Was tue ich im Ernstfall? Eine AufklÃԚ Ô�šÃ”š¤rungsschrift fÃԚ Ô�šÃ”š¼r das D
eutsche Volk (Berlin: Verlag Hermann Hilliger, 1940), pp. 21-23.
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/ene...0propaganda.htm
In modern warfare, weapons, the economy, physical resources and organization play a role. So too do spirit and soul.
A new and sinister weapon
is used against a nation's spiritual strength: Propaganda! Germany lost the World War of 1914-19 because it did not recognize the danger of enemy propaganda. It collapsed spiritually.
That m
ay not and will not happen again. Enemy propaganda wants to break the German people's will to resist by slanders, rumors, suspicions, and with political, military, or simply general lies.
The methods of enemy propaganda include: leaflets appeals, false pictures, atrocity stories, rumors, radio incitement and
systematic complaining.
All those who are reached by enemy propaganda and have their will to victory reduced by it, whether consciously or unconsciously, are tools of enemy propaganda.
Complainers and grumblers, doubters and agitators are the enemy's spiritual Foreign Legionnaires amidst the German people.
It is often only a short step from doubting the justice of one's cause to the complete collapse of the will to resist. The World War proved this!
Ho
w do I respond to enemy propaganda?
If I encounter enemy propaganda in word, print, picture, radio, in conversation about the news or through rumors, it depends on my intelligence and good sense
whether or not I render it ineffective.
I immediately collect the enemy propaganda material and explain what it is to citizens who have come in contact with it.
I know that the greatest danger of enemy propaganda is in the phrase: "There must be some truth in it."
I am careful in all my conversations and correspondence. Letters an
d conversations could reach the enemy and provide him with material.
I strengthen the will to victory of citizens who may be wavering.
If I encounter citizens who are being overcome by enemy propaganda, I confront them direcly and make clear to them the enormous danger they face, appealing to their sense of honor.
Anyone who becomes a tool of enemy propaganda and contributes to weakening our spiritual strength places himself outsid
e the national community. He should not be surprised if he is treated as an enemy of the people and of the state. If all my warnings are in vain, I do my duty and turn him over to the authorities. <
br>
I actively oppose enemy propaganda whenever I encounter it. I also do this with foreigners and friends abroad whom I talk with or write to. If I have German propaganda material at hand, I include it in my letters.
If I find or am given enemy propaganda material, I quickly write in large, clear letters "Enemy propaganda" on it and turn it over immediately to the
nearest police station.
I do not show such enemy propaganda material to strangers.
I obey all regulations against listening to foreign radio stations, not only because there are severe penalties but also because I view it as an obvious patriotic duty.
I know that enemy propaganda material is an enemy method of warfare.
Enemy Propaganda is poison!
He who falls for it is lost.
(Contri
buted by A.B.)
Background:
In 1940, the Nazis put out a booklet titled "What Do I Do in an Emergency?"
It included information on what to do in various crisis si
tuations,
and was to be kept by the telephone, kitchen, or other highly visible place.
It included material on first aid, conduct during air raids, etc.
But it also included several pages on how to deal with enemy propaganda. That is the section I translate here:
The Source: Der ReichsfÃԚ Ô�šÃ”š¼hrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei, Was tue ich im Ernstfall? Eine AufklÃԚ Ô�šÃ”š¤rungsschrift fÃԚ Ô�šÃ”š¼r das D
eutsche Volk (Berlin: Verlag Hermann Hilliger, 1940), pp. 21-23.