The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-05-07
Booklet ellis
Many Secrets Of
Nozi Propaganda

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Fifteen Nazi propaganda objec-
tives in the United States are dis
closed in document pamphlet. en-.
titled Divide and Conquer" re-
leased this week by the Office of
Fac.s and Figures. The pamphlet
describes German propaganda meth
obs in continental Europe and
warns that the United States is now
being subjected to a total bar
rege of the Nazi strategy of terror
Fer the first time the government
lists the Nazi propaganda detectives
by stating. Hitler wants us to be-
i lieve that.
Democracy is dying.
i Our armed forces are weak.
TIE New Order" is inevitable.
We ere lost in the Pacific.
Our West Coast is in such grave
danger there is no point in fighting
lon
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
i than we can bear
Stain is getting too strong, and
Bolshevism will sweep over Eu-
rope.
! Our leaders are incompetent. our
/ Government incapable of Waging
war
j Aid to our allies must stop.
Cur real peril is japanese, and
Nc must Join Germany to stamp
out the yellow Peril
We mustrbrlng all our troops and
weapons back to the United States,
ard 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.
ITO spread these and other lies,
Hitler will pull every trick in his
black bag. But Americans will not
be fooled
Divide and Conquer warns,
however, that Hitlers strategy
will follow no set pattern. One line
will be pursued today, another to-
morrow. But always his broad aims
will be the same. to separate us
from our allies by arouslng distrust
of them, TO create friction within
the United States in order to d.
vert us from our true enemy-the
. Axis, to paralyze our will to fight.
The o. E. F. pamphlet is COM
pletely documented, listing its
source for each statement of fact
The pamphlet is illustrated by D
r. Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post
Dispatch as a contribution to the
war effort.
Divide and Conquer explainsi
that the Nazi propaganda tech
niques directed against the United
States are comparable with those
. used by Hitler against the European
nations that he has conquered. Iht
pamphlet recalls Hitler's attempt!
, % separate the French and ths
! British in the first year of the war
: his systematic Wooing of Balkan
: business men; his creation of inter
: nal disorders in Belgium before in
vasion and other historical detail'
of the Nazi strategy of terror,
Short wave broadcasts from en-
: envy and controlled countries, ri
mors. enemy agents and innocen
G dupes are used by the Nazis, accord
c ing to the pamphlet. Hitler is try
: ing to set capital against labor
: white against Negro, Catholi
: against Protestant, Christian agalns
Jew the pamphlet warns. H
q knows that prejudice, in any form
c 9lavs his game"
e divide and Conquer points on
Y that for several years before Pear
If Harbor, Hitler propaganda in TIN
Il country attempted to paralyze on
S. thinking-to give the impression tina
II war was none of our buslnss, thu
n no one would dare to attack u:
it that our two oceans would protee
If us. that, anyway, Hitler had no ir
terest in the Western Hemisphere
: that if we would only refrain fror
doing anything Hitler didn't lk'
Hitler would leave us alone, thu
anyone who warned us that Hitle
meant what he said was warmor
ger; that anyone who urged us
gain time for our own defense b
helping those who were already or
Is posing Hitler was trying to lea
a. us into war The line is familia
3 enough. 1t didn't fool the Amer
a can people. But it was picked Il
a and repeated by many groups
le Americans people who would hay
v been shocked to learn that the
III were carry the Nazi message
Following the successful patter
OF used in France, Hitlers agents hay
Il been responsible for many rumoi
d in this country, all Of them falls
a. concerning imaginery epldemlcs, ba
at food and assertions in our Arm
ne camps, the pamphlet says. Il cor
tinues: Since the war began Ge
v man short waves have shouted /
ne barbados in the streets Of Wasl
ne ington, of panic on the stock ma
uf ket, of exaggerated losses at Pea
alr Harbor, and for example, give tt
is signal for Hitler agents to sprea
7 rumors that we had lost our flee
III and that our naval officials wei
an traitors" All false, of course.
n The pamphlet concludes "
n know that Hitler, who acts like
terror, is really the most frightene
man on earth. The appraised arr