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...wise. He told them to make the letter V with their knives and forks in restaurants, to set stopped clocks at five after eleven. The Moscow radio jammed German broadcasts with the Morse V. The R.A.F. flew over Europe in V-formation-and it was so noted in official communiqués. In Belgium the Flemish composer R. A. F. Verhulst became a national celebrity when posters advertising the performance of one of his operas featured his four initials. (The Germans caught on and tore the posters down...
...week believed they knew the next turn that World War II would take. No more fools than citizens of other nations, Germans no longer believe the rant and propaganda which passes for news in their press. But they still buy papers for two reasons: 1) to read the Army communiqués; 2) to see what they, the German people, are being prepared to expect next...
...communiqués from the Russian war were not conclusive (see p. 75), but the papers made it quite clear what Germans should be prepared to expect...
Civilian morale in Russia had two great advantages. Russia's very vastness and lack of communications kept bad news at the front from spreading easily to the rest of the nation; and Russian communiqués kept the results of the fighting in a convenient haze. In World War I soldiers back from the front told people in the villages and cities how badly things were going. In this war virtually no one had yet come back from the front...
...revealed, Leske is: 1) a mental twelve-year-old with a craving for speed and action; 2) a childless adolescent who had no sex experience until some time after he had been destroying other men's children; 3) a pulp-paper brain which listens only to the war communiqués on the radio, hates music, has to make an effort even to read the recollections of German War Ace Fritz Udet; 4) a cultural blank registering only the slogans of the Nazi leaders; 5) a historical illiterate knowing nothing about the history of other countries...