Nazis prepare defiant reply
Official denounces Big Three leaders
LONDON, England (UP) – Nazi propagandists were believed preparing a defiant and sarcastic reply to the announcement that the Allied Big Three were plotting Germany’s final defeat and post-war control of the Reich.
German news agencies carried the Allied announcement without comment for foreign consumption, but have not yet relayed it to the German people.
German press chief Dr. Otto Dietrich gave a clue to the probable propaganda line yesterday when – several hours before the Allied announcement – he denounced President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin as the “greatest war criminals of all time.”
Dr. Dietrich said:
They have made known that they have two aims to pursue. They want to make the German people give themselves up by a maneuver of agitation, and they want to promise eternal peace to a gullible humanity.
They have not succeeded in persuading the German people in past years to capitulate… they will not succeed now, either.
Propaganda drive aimed at Reich
WASHINGTON (UP) – The Big Three conference announcement was a propaganda bomb intended to give unhappy Germans a dreadful shudder.
If their morale was sagging yesterday, it should be drooping today. That is the way the war psychologists estimate the unveiling of the Black Sea area conference.
The Allied leaders broke the precedent of their first meeting by officially announcing this one, and its purpose, while it was still in progress.
Observers believe that a primary purpose in doing this is to exploit the psychological warfare value of the conference to the utmost at this moment while Allied armies are biting deeper into the Reich.