Evening star., 1942-12-23
Reds Use Propaganda
0fMany Kinds Against
Nazi Troops al Front
Germon Love Of Home
At Christmas Busis Of
One Appeal TO Give Up
BY DAVID NJ. NICHOL.
Foreign Correspondent Of The Star and
Chir 90 Daily NeUs

Chicago Daily News
MOSCOW, Dec. 23.-Special crews
have moved powerful loudspeakers
into positions where their booming
voices would reach concentrations of
Nazi troops encircled west of Stalin-
grad between the Don and the Volga
The encircled Nazis, numbering
originally some q divisions, are be-
ing hammered not only by Soviet
rif1emen, artillery and tanks, but
with the same powerful weapon the
Nazis used tellingly against the
French-propaganda. Loudspeakers
are only one portion of this offensive
It includes illustrated journals. news
papers, handbills and all sorts of
pocket-size cards with the general
theme, this would not have hap
pened except for Hitler"
Just now Christmas and New Year
play prominent roles in these ap-
peals directed mostly to German SOL
diers to lay down their arms and
follow the example of 10000 of their
comrades who already have sur
rendered" in the Stalingrad area,
according to Soviet count. 1t is
bloodcurdling holiday reading at
best.
Play on Love Of Home.
On one of these handbills a grim
ming deathshead in a bullet pierced
Nazi helmet drinks to the new year.
''Prosit Neujahr!" and these words
are added for those 10000 who
surrendered the war is ended. They
enter the year 1943 in the. certainty
that they will again see their home
land. their loved ones"
Even a limited ina gina ton is suf-
hcient to see the force Of such senti-
ments.
Any one who is at all familiar with
Germans knows the large role that
Christmas plays in their family life.
It is holiday sacred to the home.
Picture then a NaZi tommy gunner
huddled behind an ice barrier, con-
stantly sniped at by experts and
under steady artillery fire, reading
handbill saying:
No bells ring in the Christmas
festival for you, soldier. Only the
Russian wind sings your early death.
Snow swirls over the icy steppe, The
specter of destruction dances in the
fading dusk. Death ever searches
your ranks for new bounty"
Since the beginning of the British
offensive in Libya and the landing
of the Americans in North Africa,
Soviet propagandists have made the
most of these moves In appeals to
the German soldiers.
Warned About Himmler.
at is the beginning of the end OF
Hitler's rule; he Is caught in
huge pincers from east and west. is
the general theme, while for the
again is portrayed as lion chasing
Marshal Erwin Rommel over the
desert.
There is interesting emphasis in
these newspapers and handbills on
the increasing power of Heinrich
Himmler's S, S. telite guards on
the German home front with the
that it is force designed
to disarm returning soldiers once the
war is ended. IF you'd make an
end to the war wipe out the S. S.,
urges one.
Stress continues to be placed on
Stains statement that the Hitler
regime rather than the German peo-
pie Is the real enemy. The Hitler
regime is the enemy of German
workers" says a handbill titled
Destruction of Hitlerism is your
saliva ton The handbill continues
that Hitlerism is the enemy of Ger
man peasants" German intellectu-
als" and the middle class The
Nazis and munitions kings, which are
labelled "hyenas of the battlefield"
are held principally guilty.
"Hitlerism. not the Soviet Union,
Is the enemy of the German peO-
pie" announces another handbill.
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