Complex sentence: The soldiers did not receive many Dutch newspapers, which may have been as well from the standpoint of morale as this precluded them from knowing that apparently nobody in the Fatherland was aware of, or cared, what was happening to them.
Split into simpler sentences: The soldiers did not receive many Dutch newspapers, which may have been just as well from the standpoint of morale. This precluded them from knowing that apparently nobody in the Fatherland was aware of, or cared, what was happening to them.