The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-03
Put MADE in Germany
Label on Cruck-Up Rumor

work now is to encourage the
democracies to believe that, on
the basis of today's Anglo-Amer-
lean battlefield successes, the
war is as good as won.
NAZI PLANT RUMORS
Reliable reports of this new
psychological warfare underta-
ken by the Goebbels propaganda
forces have been received in
London from secret sources in
side the Reich.
Nazi secret agents abroad are
known to be instigating whis-
pering campaigns about Ger
many's "rottenness within" Ru-
mors of serious unrest inside the
Reich are. being planted in and
relayed from neutral sources"
a now-familiar German propa-
ganda technique. Similar news"
apparently is being permitted to
escape" to frontier towns in
Switzerland, Turkey and else
where all for dissemination
to America and the British En-
pire.
HOPE FOR SHOWDOWN
The Germans thus hope, it is
said, to pull out of the North
African-Russian fire a compla-
cent sloW-up in the war produc-
ton efforts of the Allies and an
increase in the grumbling of
civilians who have been depriv-
ed Of many of the p ] e a n t
things of life. They have set out
to inspire a general feeling of
over confidence which they
hope may spread into the AngO-
American armed forces them
selves.
All this propaganda is being
scattered by word of mouth
rather than by radio for the rea-
son that Nazi broadcasts to for
eign countries have a way of
bouncing back, occasionally, in
to Germany itself. And there
other branches of the Berlin
propaganda ministry are engag-
ed in dispensing just the oppo-
site sort of messages to the Ger
man people.
The Hitlerian propaganda ex-
porters are immeasurably aided,
this time, by the fact that there
is at least a tiny. wiggly germ
of truth in the idea that Ger
many may crumble within. The
wishful thinkers know that this
is what happened in the last war
when the going got tough for
the Kaiser's legions, and they
realize that the war-WearineSs
of the German people today
must have become extraacute
in recent weeks.
Military analysts here, how
ever, are convinced that only
direct physical attack upon Ger
many proper and a crushing
defeat administered perhaps at
the cost of hundreds of thou
sands of Allied lives will
spell victory for the United Ma
tons.
Though sharing the feeling of
the man in the street that the
tide of war at last has turned,
they are under no illusions that
a democratic victory will be easy
or quick - or even certain.
While the Germans most surely
were caught off balance by the
unexpected strength of the
British onslaught in Egypt and
by the surprise American de-
scent upon Morocco and Algeria,
they in turn have shown an abil-
ity to reinforce their tattcrcd
divisions in Libya and to pour
themselves heavily into Tuni-
STA.
STILL HAVE MANPOWER
It also is recalled that even
though SO German divisions may
have been smashed IN the Rus
sian fighting and several others
demolished in Africa, Hitler al
ways has been credited with
having 800 divisions under arms
- which leaves him still with
a great reservoir Of manpower
for the continuance of the war.
Too, the European c h nne |
coast is strong, the Mediterran-
can is wide - and there is a
fanatical Japanese ally at Hit
ler's side.
Above all else, however, re-
alistic observers here believe
the Germans will 60 on fighting
to the last because of mount
ing terror of the fate that might
be meted out to them by victori-
Gus and .vengeful enemies - the
tortured Poles and Czechs. the
wrathful Russians. the blitzed
Britons, the Inundated Scandi-
navians, the exploited French,
the hard-boiled Yanks.