[Divide and Conquer]
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DIVIDE™ CONQUER
“At the bottom of their hearts the great masses of the people are more likely to be poisoned than to be consciously and deliberately bad. In the primitive simplicity of their minds they are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones.
“An untruth of that sort would never come into their heads, and they cannot believe that others would indulge in so vast an impudence as gross distortion. Even after being enlightened, they will long continue to doubt and waver, and will still believe there must be some truth behind it somewhere. For this reason some part of even the boldest lie is sure to stick—a fact which all the great liars and liars’ societies in this world know only too well, and make base use of.”
ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
OFFICE OF FACTS AND FIGURES
Washington, D. C.
The Story of Nazi Terror....
Soon after Pearl Harbor, a Nazi broadcaster to America shouted: “British naval circles are finding encouragement in the defeat suffered by the United States!” 1
Calculated to create distrust of our allies, this Nazi lie, like all Nazi lies, was part of a vast strategy of terror. Hitler knows that in order to conquer the world he must first enslave the mind of man, and toward that end he is carrying out a program of propaganda, blackmail, and death. Because he fears truth, he has tried every means of wiping it off the face of the earth.
“Mental confusion, indecisiveness, panic,” Hitler once said, “these are our weapons.” 2 The United States is now subject to a total barrage of the Nazi strategy of terror. Hitler thinks Americans are suckers. By the very vastness of his program of lies, he hopes to frighten us into believing that the Nazis are invincible. In carrying out that program he takes it for granted that decent people here—as they have elsewhere—will say: “Such evil cannot be.” But Hitler is wrong. For Americans, reading the story of the Hitler terror, will neither be
rFor sources see end of pamphlet.
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blinded nor afraid. As free men, they will say to Hitler, “Don’t pull any of your tricks on us. We3 re wise to them.”
Pre-Invasion Tactics
Before Hitler attacks any country, his agents carefully sow seeds of hate and disunity, turning people against their own governments, governments against their allies, class against class.
Before the invasion of Austria, young Nazi hoodlums were sent onto the streets to play schoolboy pranks on the police and make them appear ridiculous in the eyes of passersby.3 In the early days of the war, before France was invaded, morale was lowered by professional weepers, clothed in deep mourning and wailing loudly, who wandered into subways and onto buses in Paris spreading the false belief that French casualties were enormous. Mothers received mysterious postcards informing them that their sons, at the front, had either been killed or were deathly ill. Soldiers received anonymous notes saying that their wives or sweethearts were unfaithful and had run off with British soldiers.4 Palm readers and crystal gazers in the pay of Hitler gloomily predicted to their clients that in the days to come France would lie prostrate at the feet of Germany.8 Nazi agents combed the gossip columns of Paris newspapers for items that could be used as blackmail against prominent persons. Armed with scraps of personal dirt, they would force the victim to act as a Hitler agent, and help spread rumors to confuse and demoralize the public. Rumors of secret weapons spread like wildfire: Hitler had electrical mines, nerve gas, deadly germs that could be dropped over an entire countryside.®
Edmond Taylor, in his authoritative
and valuable book, The Strategy of Terror, has said that these rumors, planted by Hitler agents, were often passed on during casual conversations. “I heard today,” a young Frenchman whispered to a group of friends at a sidewalk cafe, “that Hitler has a secret weapon that will destroy Paris in 2 minutes. This machine is so terrible that even Hitler is afraid to use it.” By nightfall each of his friends had told several other friends, and the story soon blanketed Paris.
The Poison Takes Hold
These rumors and thousands like them gradually accomplished their purpose. Circulated day after day, worming their way into the minds of Frenchmen, Norwegians, Danes, Belgians, Austrians, Dutch, Czechs, and Poles, they created a feeling of fear and frustration, a loathing of the war, and a certainty of defeat. Having weakened the resistance of his enemies, Hitler was quick to find outlets for their discontent.
For most evil, the Jews were to blame. Business is bad? Labor is to blame. Wages are low? Capital is to blame. War is hell? The British are to blame. Everybody was to blame except Hitler, the common enemy who would crush them all. National unity was destroyed by setting group against group. In Belgium, Nazis told the French-speaking Walloons that King Leopold was proGerman and was preparing to sell out Belgium to the Nazis; they told the Flemish that King Leopold had a secret treaty with the Allies and was ready to declare war on Germany.7 “Why should Frenchmen die for Danzig?” read elegantly printed propaganda tracts mailed to Frenchmen in hand-addressed envelopes.8
Slowly, Hitler tried to deaden the com
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bative spirit of the French soldier and make him distrust his British ally. When the French first crossed into German territory, the Germans retired without firing a shot, leaving behind placards and posters saying that they had no quarrel with the French. When French scouting planes swooped over the German lines, the Germans stood up and waved handkerchiefs. During the first week of the war, French soldiers, unloading barges at Strasbourg, were suddenly blinded by German searchlights. “Do not be afraid, French Kamaraden,” cried a German officer through the loudspeaker. “We just turned on the light so you could see better. We have had the same work on our side and we know how it is.” Working in the glare of German lights, the French accomplished two nights’ work in one.9 Hitler convinced the French the war could* be waged without fighting. “Defense” would triumph. Bloodshed was futile, offensive military action against Germany unnecessary. One had only to sit and wait, safe and snug, behind the Maginot Line.
Often, when German guns were about to fire, loudspeakers warned the French to take cover, even announcing where the shells would land.10 And if the Germans were so friendly, why should one die? The Germans had an answer for that, an answer calculated to separate the French from their British ally. “Frenchmen!” cried one tract, dropped over the front, “We want nothing from you, neither your land nor your lives. You don’t want to fire on us; we don’t want to fire on you. Who are the only ones who want this stupid war? The English alone. The English will fight once more to the last Frenchman. P. S. This is not propaganda. This is an expose' of the facts.” 11
Comic strips were tossed over the Maginot Line, picturing a French poilu and an English Tommy about to dive into a swimming pool marked “Blood Bath.” At the last moment the poilu dove in, but the Tommy, calmly smoking his pipe, walked away. “The English will fight to the last drop of French blood,” said the caption.12 Special trench mortars shot beautifully colored postcards into the French lines, bearing pictures of a wounded poilu lying amidst the ruins of a town. “Where are the Tommies?” read the simple caption. Held to the light, the postcard revealed a Tommy—well-fed and prosperous—courting the poilu’s wife.18
The Death Litany
The Germans played monotonously upon the fear of death. “Frenchmen!” cried a leaflet, shaped like a coffin, “Prepare your coffins.” Tracts shaped like leaves swirled over the front. “Next spring when the offensive comes,” they read, “you will fall as the autumn leaves are falling now—and for what?”14 Night after night during the long winter of 1939-40, when the armies of France and Germany were lined up facing each other, German loudspeakers blared forth their propaganda: false lists of French “prisoners” were periodically announced; French dignitaries, visiting the front with elaborate secrecy, were greeted by the German loudspeakers; several minutes after a French infantry unit arrived at the front, the Germans announced the name of every member of the unit, his home town, and the names of his officers. This so demoralized the group that it had to be instantly removed.15
Hitler’s war of nerves in neutral countries, such as Holland and Belgium, was
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designed to keep them in a constant state of terror. By means of periodic war scares—carefully planned and rehearsed—he gradually produced a set of national jitters that left these nations weakened and demoralized.
A typical war scare was engineered in Belgium in January 1940, when an obscure Nazi paper reported heavy German troop concentrations along the Belgian borders. Belgian papers fell into the trap by widely reprinting the item. Blood pressure rose all over Belgium. A day later a German plane carrying two German officers became “lost” over Belgian territory and was forced to land inside the frontier. Oddly enough, the officers had in their pockets German General Staff “plans” for an invasion of
Belgium. Simultaneously, the German Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, summoned the Belgian Ambassador to his office in Berlin, picked a fight over some minor economic demand, and finally threw the Ambassador out of his office, shouting, “You want war; well, you’ll get it 1”
Belgian officials immediately sent a hurry call to General Gamelin, chief of the French forces, warning that Belgium momentarily expected a German attack. Defeatist rumors inside Belgium added to the terror. German agents launched whispering campaigns that Belgian defenses were obsolete and would crumble like paper before the German onslaught. Swastikas appeared mysteriously on curbstones, on the walls of buildings, and in
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the mails, while Nazi agents distributed Belgian flags bearing swastikas. “Keep this flag,” they warned. “When the Germans arrive sew it onto your coat. Then you will surely be well treated.” But the Germans did not arrive for 5 months— months of hideous suspense.18
The Or-Else Technique
Hitler’s terror was often less than subtle. The night before the invasion of Norway, the German Ambassador invited many prominent Norwegians to his home and showed them “Baptism by Fire,” a movie taken during the invasion of Poland. Bombed cities, raging fires, and crushed bodies were pictured in harrowing detail. Later, over champagne and a midnight supper, the German Ambassador quietly observed that the Poles could have been spared this tragedy had they granted Hitler’s demands. Other nations, he suggested, would do well to remember Poland’s fate.17
For years the Nazis bloodlessly invaded the Balkans, sending countless German agents armed with brief cases and impeccable manners to cultivate the friendship of business and professional men. Countless German commercial travelers abroad were Nazi agents. From 1933 the Germans worked assiduously at their game, often staying on the job 15 to 18 hours a day, rising early and finishing breakfast in their hotels while the other guests (doing business as usual) were still snoozing. Spreading the gospel of Hitler, some agents wormed their way into the confidence of cabinet ministers, others worked on newspapermen, still others on persons high in financial or military circles. No layer of society was neglected. Different words were chanted to different groups, but always the tune was the same:
“Hitler cannot lose. There will be no room in southeastern Europe for those who refuse to do business with Hitler. A smart man would climb on the bandwagon now.”18
German importers lured Balkan traders into the trap by agreeing to buy surplus products of these nations, in exchange for German machinery. At one time more than 70 percent of the wheat crop in one or more of the Danubian countries went to Germany. On the surface this appeared to be a profitable arrangement, but once Germany controlled this market she could close it at will, and thus plunge these nations into economic chaos.19 If Balkan businessmen refused to knuckle under to Hitler, the Nazis resorted to blackmail, bribery, and assassination. The price of doing business with Hitler not only brought economic strangulation but political suicide. To keep in the good graces of their German masters, Balkan businessmen were ordered, as a mere starter, to adapt themselves to Nazi ways, to fire all anti-Nazi employees, and to stop doing business with Jewish firms and Jewish customers.20
The Fifth Columns
“National socialism were worthless if limited to Germany alone,” Hitler has said, “and if it would not seal the rule of the superior race over the entire world for at least one thousand to two thousand years.” 21 To extend national socialism, he is spending $300,000,000 each year to organize Germans abroad, and to spread German propaganda. Directing this subversive activity is the Auslands Organization (Germans Abroad) of the Nazi party, with headquarters in Berlin, 600 agencies in foreign countries, and a membership of 4,000,000.
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Although it is the largest group working for Hitler abroad, the Auslands Organization functions in close conjunction with the Gestapo, the propaganda ministry of Dr. Goebbels, the Labor Front, the intelligence services of the German Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the foreign office with its embassies and consulates in
all parts of the world.22 A minority of perhaps 1,000,000 Germans in Poland worked for a Hitler victory. In special German camps, 10,000 of these were trained to guide the invaders to strategic spots when they arrived. Posing as waiters, barbers, cab drivers, organized in singing societies, drinking clubs, and cultural groups, they were deeply entrenched
in everyday Polish fife. Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia actively engaged in destroying the Czechoslovakian Republic. They adopted Nazi emblems, sang Hitler songs, celebrated Nazi holidays, learned Nazi techniques of treachery, and practiced the whole rigmarole of Nazi blood and terror. Dissatisfied Flemings in Belgium, as well as members of the pro-Nazi Rexist party of Leon Degrelle, resolutely undermined the Belgian nation, and prepared to create panic and aid the enemy on the day of invasion.23 Strength-through-joy visitors and Wandervbgel (young hitchhikers) — outwardly German tourists enjoying the sights—carefully mapped the Polish and
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Norwegian countrysides with notebook and camera and turned their information over to the German Army.24
In this country, the activities of organizations like the German-American Bund have served to embarrass and disgust millions of loyal German-Americans. Federal investigative agencies have demonstrated the fact that they are aware of, and are dealing with, such activities.
Invasion Tactics
Hitler invades only when he feels his groundwork of treachery has been well laid. During actual invasion, the strategy of terror creates untold confusion and panic, among both civilians and soldiers.
During the battle of France, German bombs and planes were equipped with screaming sirens and whistles, turning the battlefield into an inferno of sound.28 Obsolete planes with schoolboy pilots, as well as every outmoded training tank in the Reich, were thrown into battle in some areas to convince the French that resistance was futile against such overwhelming odds. Germans wearing French uniforms parachuted behind the lines to issue false orders, tap military lines, and misdirect traffic. Often they spread panic in the villages merely by rushing through, crying, “Get out, the Germans are coming.” Seizing French wave lengths, Germans broadcast false
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warnings to inhabitants of villages and towns, driving entire populations onto the roads, and clogging them so heavily that French reinforcements could not reach the front.
During the most frenzied days of the blitzkrieg, the mayor of Senlis, 30 miles north of Paris, received a phone call. “This is the mayor of Beauvais,” said the voice. “The Germans have crossed the Oise River. Evacuate instantly.” Out poured the population of Senlis, adding to the already frightful crush on the roads. Only later, when the damage had been done, was it learned that the phone call had come from a German agent.26
Confidential orders found on two German pilots shot down over Poland during the invasion reveal the role that the fifth column was scheduled to play in that country. Poles sympathetic with the Germans, according to the instructions, helped the advancing German forces by “clearing the roads for the passage of German troops; by preventing the Poles from blowing up the bridges and paved highways; by starting a minor war in the rear of the Poles.” Polish fifth columnists aided German fliers by arranging piles of hay in their fields in the shape of arrows, pointing straight to munition dumps and other strategic posts.27 While the city was still being valiantly defended, Nazi agents sabotaged the Warsaw radio station by capturing its wave length and broadcasting from the German border city of Breslau, imitating the familiar voice of the Warsaw announcer. First the Germans raised hopes by falsely announcing that hundreds of British planes had arrived in Poland, that the Allies were thrashing the Germans in the west, and that Italy had entered on the side of Britain and France. Several hours later
they crushed those hopes by crying that Warsaw itself had fallen—a good 2 weeks before it surrendered. Many other Polish cities immediately capitulated, feeling that with the capital lost resistance was futile.28
Tactics of Occupation
“The idea of pacifism and humanity may be quite good,” Hitler has said, “after the supreme race has conquered and subdued the world.”29 Having conquered a nation, Hitler enslaves it by mass terror on a scale beyond measure in human history. His “New Order” in Europe is designed to make every conquered nation, and every person and thing within that nation, totally subservient to the Reich. His most brutal terror has been exercised in Poland. Having destroyed Polish cities and homes, and having decreed that Poles are inferior people unworthy even of slave status, Hitler has systematically tried to break their wills and make them live a subhuman existence. A notice posted on the walls of Torun shortly after the occupation read: “Poles of both sexes, when meeting uniformed representatives of the German Army or Germans wearing arm-lets, must give way to them. The streets belong to the victors, not to the vanquished. . . Polish women who address Volksdeutsche [Germans] or insult them will be sent to houses of prostitution.” 89 To destroy future leadership, the brainiest and most influential men in each district of western Poland (the portion directly annexed to Germany) were murdered in cold blood, including at least 25,000 religious leaders, wealthy landowners, professional men, and peasants noted for social activities.81
“An inferior race needs less food and
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less culture than a superior race,” Dr. Ley, the Nazi head of the Labor Front, declared in February 1940. Where Germans in Poland receive 8^2 ounces of margarine and 1 pint of milk a week, Poles receive none. To demoralize the Poles, alcohol is distributed to peasants in exchange for grain. No classical or patriotic music is permitted. Every monument, every document, every trace of Polish culture is being destroyed.32 The Polish press has been entirely wiped out. Poles cannot mingle with Germans in public conveyances. There is no longer a single Polish school.33 Jews in Warsaw have been packed into a ghetto in the center of the city, surrounded by an 8-foot wall, topped by broken glass or barbed wire.84
One million Poles have been shipped into Germany as laborers. Once in Germany, they must wear a yellow marker embroidered with a large P. Poles are not considered citizens of the Reich, but are forced, nonetheless, to pay all ordinary German taxes. In addition, they pay a 15 percent supertax (for being “inferior people”), as well as a 2 percent tax for the Labor Front (to which they are not admitted), and make constant contributions to the Winter Help Fund (in which they do not share).86 Nearly 2,000,000 Poles have been lifted bodily from their homes in the western provinces and shipped to the Government-General of Poland in the center of the country. These deportations are carried out between 1 and 4 in the morning. The Gestapo surrounds a section of the town without previous warning, ropes off all exits, and awakens the inhabitants. Given 3 hours to pack one suitcase or parcel, they are locked in cattle cars, and taken to central Poland, food being
thrown into the car by guards. Before leaving, the Gestapo makes them prepare for the arrival of people who will live in their homes (Germans imported from the Reich) by leaving the keys hanging on the doorknob.38 They never see their homes again.
According to Cardinal Hlond of Poland, the Catholic church has been practically wiped out in western Poland. Three-quarters of the population have been deprived of the services of the church, even on their deathbeds. In the archdioceses of Poznan and Gniezno alone, 631 churches, 454 chapels, and 253 convents and religious edifices have been destroyed or closed.87
Thus has the “New Order” polluted Europe.
Tactics in America
“America is permanently on the brink of revolution,” Hitler has said. “It will be a simple matter for me to produce revolts and unrest in the United States, so that these gentry will have their hands full.” 88
Simple matter? That depends on us, and on how well we profit from the lessons of Europe. We have seen how Hitler’s strategy created internal distress in every nation he planned to attack. We have seen how he undermined civilian morale, separated governments from their allies, set group against group. We have seen the extent of his subtlety and the depth of his terror—before invasion, during invasion, and after occupation.
The United States is still intact, but Hitler hopes to destroy that unity, physically and mentally. All his tricks are now being directed against us. Our job today is one of individual awareness, in order to avoid falling into Hitler’s trap.
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Hitler propaganda wears a thousand false faces. It never announces itself as “Nazi.” It appears where least expected, and under the most innocent auspices, often turning up as the latest funny story told during lunch.
German propagandists first told the story—widely circulated some months ago—about the Englishman, Dutchman, Frenchman, and Greek who were flying toward England in a crippled plane. To lighten the load and save the plane, advised the pilot, some people would have to jump. Both the Frenchman ’ and Dutchman promptly dove out the door. “For our countries !” t they cried. The plane still faltered, and the pilot called for one more man to sacrifice his life. The Englishman arose, his face grave. “For England !” he said solemnly—pushing the Greek overboard.39 Many people innocently repeated this story without realizing its aim: to create contempt for our ally, and leave the impression that other people fight his battles.*
We must not fall into the trap of assuming that, since the closing of the German consulates, German propagandists have been silenced. Transocean News Service, posing as a legitimate news bureau, spread Hitler propaganda throughout North America. The German Library of Information and the German Railroads Information sent out tons of attractively printed “white books” and “news letters” of German propaganda to businessmen, clergymen, editors, and
*In this connection, it is significant that to December 31, 1941, 71.3 percent of British Commonwealth casualties (both dead and wounded) were United Kingdom troops from England,'Scotland, and North Ireland; 18.2 percent were Dominion troops (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) ; 5.5 percent were from India (including many United Kingdom troops) ; 5 percent were Colonials. {British Ministry of Information.}
others. Using huge mailing lists, they flooded the country with pamphlets discussing the “German side.” Heavier fare was dispensed by the American Fellowship Forum, which ostensibly tried to foster better German-American relations by weighty discussions, but actually presented Hitler’s views in sugar-coated form to many loyal, unsuspecting Americans.40 Although these organizations no longer function in the United States, many of their ideas are still being spread by publications and groups, often unconsciously and without knowledge of the source.
Before Pearl Harbor
For several years before Pearl Harbor, Hitler propaganda in this country attempted to paralyze our thinking—to give the impression that the war was none of our business; that no one would dare to attack us; that our two oceans would protect us; that, anyway, Hitler had no interest in the Western Hemisphere; that if we would only refrain from doing anything Hitler didn’t like, Hitler would leave us alone; that anyone who warned us that Hitler meant what he said was a warmonger; that anyone who urged us to gain time for our own defense by helping those who were already opposing Hitler was trying to lead us into war.
The line is familiar enough. It didn’t fool the American people. But it was picked up and repeated by many groups of Americans—people who would have been shocked to learn that they were carrying the Nazi message.
Today most of these Americans have recanted publicly or in private. A few mumble, “I told you so”—and hope no one will remember what it was they really
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told. The rest see very well and understand very clearly that history has caught up with the words they uttered. They understand now the cynical dishonesty of the Nazi opiates. They remember the words which said: if the Nazis can’t cross the 20 miles of the English Channel, how can they cross the 3,000 miles of the Atlantic? There are dead men in the waters off New Jersey and Hatteras who can answer that question. They remember the words which said: “The Western Hemisphere, by itself, possesses all the materials necessary for American industry in war or peace. Large stocks [of rubber] on hand, plus a growing synthetic industry, will prevent any real emergency, whatever happens in the Netherlands Indies and British Malaya.” The tire rationing boards will appreciate that statement now that Singapore has fallen. They remember the words which said: the Japs and the Nazis will leave us alone if we’ll only negotiate with them, try to get on well with them. Pearl Harbor knows the answer to that—Pearl Harbor and the office of Cordell Hull where the Axis diplomats bowed and smirked and negotiated while the bombs fell.
With this strategy of deceit, Hitler succeeded in duping many loyal Americans. Many rumors, all of them false, were
spread throughout the country to demoralize not only the draftees but their parents at home. Stories were circulated of epidemics in Army camps, bad food, and numerous desertions. According to rumors, maneuvers were being held in localities so infested with rattlesnakes that thousands of soldiers were dying of snake bites. As in France, postcards were mailed to parents, painting false pictures of conditions in the camps. The British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt Administration were accused of driving the country into war.
War has only intensified the barrage of propaganda. Day after day, the Axis short waves pour falsehoods into the United States. Hitler communicates with his agents here by these short-wave broadcasts. Listening to the programs, they learn the current propaganda line and immediately act upon it, spreading rumors that will leave the impression on American minds that Hitler wishes to leave. Since the war began, German short waves have shouted of barricades in the streets of Washington, of panic on the stock market, of exaggerated losses at Pearl Harbor and throughout the Pacific.41 German short-wave stories of losses at Pearl Harbor, for example,, gave the signal for the Hitler agents to spread
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rumors that we had lost our fleet, and that our naval officials were traitors.
Hitler short-wave broadcasts have charged that landing of American troops in North Ireland was timed “to coincide with Roosevelt’s gradual absorption of Australia and Canada.”- Via short wave, Hitler tells us that “American foreign policy is dictated from Downing Street rather than from Washington, and will leave America holding the bag.” To England, however, he cries, “The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar into Roosevelt’s teacup.” Every sign of doubt and confusion is magnified a thousand-fold and sent back over the air.
What Hitler Wants Us to Believe
To destroy our national unity, create unrest in all groups of the population, and deflect us from our major purpose—the defeat of the Axis—Hitler is trying to set capital against labor, white against Negro, Catholic against Protestant, Christian against Jew. He knows that prejudice, in any form, plays his game. Controlling the sources of news in every occupied country, and often in neutral nations, he releases only such news as he wants us to read. He will try to play upon our fears, raise our hopes, confuse and bewilder us. Through statements from “authoritative sources” he will present false and misleading pictures, often leading us to believe that he is weak when he is strong, napping when he is preparing to spring.
His strategy will follow no set pattern. One line will be pursued today, another tomorrow. But always his broad aims will be the same: to separate us from our allies by arousing distrust of them; to create friction within the United States in
order to divert us from our true enemy— the Axis; to paralyze our will to fight.
Hitler wants us to believe that:
Democracy is dying.
Our armed forces are weak.
The “New Order” is inevitable.
We are lost in the Pacific.
Our West Coast is in such grave danger there is no point in fighting on.
The British are decadent, and “sold us a bill of goods.”
The cost of the war will bankrupt the nation.
Civilian sacrifices will be more than we can bear.
Stalin is getting too strong, and Bolshevism will sweep over Europe.
Our leaders are incompetent, our Government incapable of waging war.
Aid to our allies must stop.
Our real peril is the Japanese, and we must join Germany to stamp out the “Yellow Peril.”
We must bring all our troops and weapons back to the United States, and defend only our own shores.
The Chinese and the British will make a separate peace with Japan and Germany.
American democracy will be lost during the war.
To spread these and other lies, Hitler will pull every trick in his black bag. But Americans will not be fooled. We know that Hitler, who acts like a terror, is really the most frightened man on earth. The upraised arm, the shouting voice, the mighty bluster, all mask a mortal dread of the weapon that makes men free: the truth. We are armed with the truth, and we will crush the tyrant.
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Sources
1	Federal Communications Commission Monitoring Digest: Berlin, 8:15 p. m. news broadcast, December 15, 1941.
3	Hermann Rauschning: The Voice of Destruction, p. 10.
8	Edmond Taylor: The Strategy of Terror, p. 73.
* Ibid., p. 205.
5 Interview with André Visson.
8 Edmond Taylor: “The Strategy of Terror” {Reader’s Digest, September 1940).
8 André Visson: Article in New York Herald Tribune, October 10, 1941.
8 Edmond Taylor: The Strategy of Terror, p. 103.
9 Ibid., pp. 196-197.
w Ibid., p. 179.
11 German propaganda leaflet in Library of Congress War Collection.
18 A. H. Narracott: War News Had Wings, p. 57.
18 Wallace R. Deuel: Hitler and Nazi Germany Uncensored, p. 7.
11	Leaflets in Library of Congress War Collection.
18	Edmond Taylor: The Strategy of Terror, pp. 191-202.
19	Ibid., pp. 200-201.
17	Life, May 13,1940.
18	Leland Stowe: No Other Road to Freedom, pp. 203-220.
19	Edmond Taylor: “How America Can Take the Offensive” {Fortune, May 1941).
* Ibid.
21	Adolf Hitler, quoted by Otto Strasser in Aufbau des deutschen Sozialismus.
22	Wm. Donovan and E. A. Mowrer: Fifth Column Lessons for America; the editors of Fortune : “The War of Nerves: U. S. Front” {Fortune, October 1940).
23	Wm. Donovan and E. A. Mowrer: Fifth Column Lessons for America.
24	Polish Ministry of Information, London: The German Fifth Column in Poland; Carl J. Hambro: I Saw It Happen in Norway.
28	Wm. Donovan and E. A. Mowrer: Fifth Column Lessons for America.
28	Thomas Kernan: France on Berlin Time.
27	Polish Ministry of Information, London: The German Fifth Column in Poland.
28	Ibid.
29	Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf.
80	Polish Information Center, New York: Documents 8 and 9 {Extermination of the Polish People and Colonization by German Nationals}.
81	Ibid.
88	Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland.
83 Ibid.
84Demaree Bess: “Poland in Chains” {The Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1941).
88 Thomas Reveille: The Spoil of Europe.
88 Polish Ministry of Information, London: Poland After One Tear of War; Cardinal Hlond: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland; Polish Information Center, New York: Documents 8 and 9.
87 Cardinal Hlond: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland.
38 Hermann Rauschning: The Voice of Destruction, p. 4.
89 Henry F. Pringle: “Don’t Believe a Word of It!” {Collier’s, January 17, 1942).
48 Special Committee on Un-American Activities— House of Representatives, 67th Cong., 3d sess., on H. Res. 282—Appendix, Part II.
41 Federal Communications Commission Monitoring Digests, week of December 15, 1941»
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