" THE WHITE ROSE" propaganda leaflet.

[Robert T.]

British propaganda leaflet reproducing the German text of the University of Munich students ( HANS AND SOPHIE SCHOLL ) last pamphlet against war.
It was the last of six pamphlets distributed in 1942/1943 ,this one comments the defeat of Stalingrad. Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested on feb.18,1943 and sentenced to death for treason and decapitated.
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Robert

[Robert T.]

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[Strider]

Hi Robert,

This is a great leaflet produced by the British Political Warfare Executive and dropped by the RAF and M Balloon Unit over Germany in July 1943.

More information, including an English translation, is here:
http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=1943G039

Lee
www.psywar.org

[Robert T.]

Lee,

THANK YOU for the information.I have one more to show you, they were both found among the documents kept by the family of a KNIGHTSCROSS winner.?????
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Robert

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[Strider]

Robert, this is another PWE leaflet from the same time period.
Some details here but I don't have an English translation for it online yet:
http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=1943G041

Interesting that a RK winner kept the leaflets. Official policy was that any German finding an Allied leaflet was supposed to write across it the word "Fiendpropaganda" ("Enemy Propaganda") and hand it to the authorities. But of course this order was widely disobeyed and they were secretly kept by many Germans.

However harsh penalities and prison terms could be imposed on people passing around the leaflets. In some cases some were sentenced to death. But this severe punishment seems to have been reserved for foreign workers that made use of forged ration coupons dropped by the RAF.

[Robert T.]

Lee,

I am quite sure that he disobeyed those orders.( Being a former university student himself)


Regards,
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Robert