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Allied deceptions, psy-ops and atrocity propaganda.

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Here’s a place for collecting in one thread anything detailing the deliberate and planned transmission of deceits and black-art psychological warfare for propaganda purposes that were perpetrated against Hitler’s ‘Third reich’.

I start this as there seems to be complete denial about this ever occurring by the online defenders and true-believers of the holocaust planned-genocide-by-mass-gassing narrative, who are posting here at CODOH.

Starting off with Sefton Delmer.
We are waging against Hitler a kind of total war of wits. Anything goes, so long as it serves to bring nearer the end of the war and Hitler’s defeat. If you [Otto John] are at all squeamish about what you may be called upon to do against your own countrymen you must say so now. I shall understand it. In that case, however, you will be no good to us and no doubt some other job will be found for you. But if you feel like joining me, I must warn you that in my unit we are up to all the dirty tricks we can devise. No holes are barred. The dirtier the better. Lies treachery, everything.
(Sefton Delmer in his book ‘Black boomerang’ pg. 181)

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The monitored conversations between the generals, the interrogations, the maps all travelled down to MB [Milton Bryan, near Woburn]. And there they were built up into news stories about the hitherto top secret private life of Hitler and his suite that tortured the Führer with the suspicion that the British had their spies right inside his HQ. Clifton Child was a genius at freshening up a piece of intelligence with a new development that made it sound like something that had happened the night before...

Hitler’s suspicions reached their climax when the Soldatensender, using the same technique of intelligent deduction and anticipation which had served us so well in the past, reported an order issued by the Führer at a conference in his headquarters, and did so within twenty-four hours of his having given it and before it had been carried out. (pp. 207-208)

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We never attempted to concentrate on individual coups. Our task as I saw it was to corrode and erode with a steady drip of subversive news and ‘evidence’ the iron system of control in which Hitler had… the body and soul of the German people. (pg. 213)

Examples of such measures:
The first consisted of posting letters to the relatives of German soldiers who had recently died in German military hospitals in Italy. Fortunately for us the German hospital directors made a practice of sending radio telegrams en clair to the local party authorities in Germany asking them to break the news to the relatives. These telegrams were intercepted and passed on to me. And they gave us all the information we needed — the soldier’s name, the address of his relatives and the name of the hospital.

We now concocted a moving letter, written out in German longhand script on notepaper bearing the letter heading of the German hospital.
Ostensibly the letter came either from a nurse or from a comrade of the dead man who had entrusted it for posting to someone going to Germany on leave. Whoever was the writer, he or she had been with the dead man during his last hours, and was now writing to comfort his relatives...

On other occasions we used the same technique to tell the relatives that their soldier had not died of wounds, but had been given a lethal injection. The Nazi doctor at the hospital, we explained through our nurse, had considered the man had no chance of becoming fighting fit again before the war was finished. The doctor had required the man’s bed for soldiers with a better chance of rapid recovery. (p. 133-134)

Next I decided to fake a letter allegedly written by Mölders expatiating on the doubts he and his comrades felt about fighting for the atheist Hitler... For it was in keeping with the character of young Mölders to have written such a letter. He alone could have denounced it convincingly, and he was dead — murdered, so everyone believed, by the Nazis themselves. (pp. 139-140)

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As the British and American armies began their advance into Germany, the BBC, the Voice of America, and the 12th Army group broadcasters of Radio Luxemburg had all been telling the German civilian population – “Stay where you are. Don’t move.” They had done so under a carefully considered directive from SHAEF. But when Winston learned of this advice – quite fortuitously – he blew up in hot outrage. (p. 200)

On the Soldatensender, and in Nachrichten, we plugged a story of seven bomb-free zones in Central and South Germany where refugees would be safe from further enemy air attacks. Neutral Red Cross representatives in Berlin, we reported, had informed the Reich authorities that Eisenhower was going to declare these seven zones as bomb-free safety areas. Banks were already moving their securities into them.

These ‘safety zones’ were all the more effective as almost at the same time as we were announcing them Eisenhower began to proclaim as ‘targets for tonight’ the total destruction of such city areas as Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfort and Mannheim.

And of course we did not limit our Big Bertha counterfeit to messages designed to get the German population moving out on the roads. I also did my best to further our oldest psychological warfare aim of setting German against German. (pp. 204-205)
It is a matter of course that a tremendous amount of documents were forged in the course of this work.
The war was in its last stages, when Walter Adams the new Deputy Director General, came down to MB and asked me to stay on with the department, in order to take on an important new job in connection with the occupation of Germany.

The department was being reorganised, he said. The old regional directorates were being abolished and in their place three ‘Divisions’ were being organised to take care of the new tasks which the Cabinet had allotted to us.
One division would look after the London end of our political warfare in the Far East. David Bowes-Lyon was taking charge of that one.
A second division was to take on the screening and re-education of prisoners of war.
A third was to see to it that the Germans and Austrians under British administration got the right kind of newspapers, radio, periodicals, books, theatres and so forth...
(pg.228)
After conflict ended in 1945, Sefton Delmer admitted this to the staff at Milton Bryan:
“You have not talked about our work with outsiders and nothing much is known about us or our technique. People may have their suspicions, but they don’t know. I want you to keep it that way.
Don’t be misled into boasting about the jobs we have done, the tricks we have played on the enemy...

If we start boasting of the clever things we did, who knows what the result of that will be. So mum’s the word. Propaganda is something one keeps quiet about...

What I had not expected was that PWD SHAEF would include our ‘black operations’ in its Official History and that as a result our work would be dragged into controversy between the two American ‘Sykewar’ agencies.” (pgs.218-220)
Here follows the english translation of the admission of atrocity propaganda and deception to Prof Friedrich Grimm.

This and all the quotes above are from Udo Wallendy’s ‘The Methods of Reeducation’, 1979:
Sefton Delmer was among the men “who were given the opportunity in 1945 of making changes in Germany” (p. 228). What these intended changes looked like, the German constitutional lawyer Prof. Friedrich Grimm depicts in his book ‘Political Justice’ (pp. 146-148):

In May 1945, a few days after the collapse, I had a notable talk with an important representative of the opposite side. He introduced himself as a university professor of his country, who wanted to converse with me on the historical basis of the war. It was a conversation of high standing we conducted. Suddenly he dropped the subject, pointed to the leaflets lying on the table in front of me, we were flooded with during the first days after surrender, mainly circling around the concentration camp-horrors. “What do you say about it?” so he asked me.

I replied:
“Oradour and Buchenwald? With me you force an open door. I am a lawyer and condemn the wrong wherever I meet with it, more than all, when it happens on our side. I know, however, to make a distinction between the facts and the political use one makes of it. I know the meaning of atrocity propaganda. After World War I, I have read all publications by your experts on this subject, the writings of the Northcliff Bureau, the book of the French minister of the finances Klotz ‘From War to Peace’ (Paris, 1923), depicting how the story of the chopped-off children’s hands was cooked up and what profit one got out of it, the enlightenment writings of the journal Crapouillot comparing the atrocity propaganda of 1870 with that of 1914-1918, and finally the classic by Ponsonby: ‘The Lie in War’ [Falsehood in Wartime], revealing that one had in the preceding war already magazines showing artificial corpse mountains by photomontage composed of dummies. These pictures were distributed, with a space left for caption. It was given out by telephone later on according to the needs from the propaganda centre.”

Thereby I pulled out one of the leaflets exhibiting allegedly mountains of dead bodies out of the concentration camps, and showed it to my visitor, who looked at me taken aback.

I continued:
“I can not imagine that in this war with all weapons perfected to such an extent, this mentally toxic weapon should have been neglected that decided the outcome of World War I. More so, I know it for sure! The last months before the collapse I read daily the foreign press. There was reported on German atrocities from a central office, operating in a certain turn. There was one occupied territory after the other called to mind, today France, tomorrow Norway, then Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Greece, Jugoslavia and Czecho-Slovakia.

“First were reported hundreds of corpses in the concentration camps, then six weeks later when it was the turn of this same country again, thousands, then ten thousands, then hundred thousands. Here I thought to myself: this number inflation can not possibly skyrocket into the million!”

Now I reached for another leaflet: “Here you have the million!” There my visitor blurted out: “I see, I have run into an expert. Now I also want to tell you, who I am. I am not a university professor. I am of the central office you talked about: Atrocity propaganda – and with it we won the total victory.”

I replied: “I know, and now you must stop it!” He retorted: “No, now we shall start all the more! We shall continue this atrocity propaganda, we shall intensify it, until nobody shall accept a good word from the Germans anymore, until all the sympathy you had in other countries shall be destroyed, and until the Germans themselves shall be so confused that they do not know anymore what they are doing!” I terminated the conversation: “Then you shall burden yourself with a great responsibility!”

What this man had threatened us with, came true. The worst, however, was the confusion caused among the Germans themselves.

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Grimm did not know the true identity of his interlocutor: It was Sefton Delmer!
https://www.heretical.com/walendy/sdelmer.html
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I'm not familiar with Sefton Delmer but he seems like a real monster.

I think it's best to begin with the Allies' own admissions. Declassified files from the OSS and CIA make abundantly clear that disinformation was part of the war effort. The document I will quote from is titled Office of Strategic Services Organization and Functions, a sort of training booklet for new recruits. The date on it is June 1945.
The Morale Operations Branch deals with that phase of propaganda known as black or covert. It comes from a hidden source, is unofficial and purports to be disseminated from within the target country by persons who claim to be serving its interests.
[...]
MO MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES

Printed Material - (Leaflets, Posters, Stickers, Stencils, Newspapers and Magazine Articles). Disguised as official enemy publications; or as organs of actual or fake dissident groups in enemy nations; or of resistance groups in enemy-occupied countries.

Black Radio Campaigns - Posing as "freedom stations" of a resistance group within an enemy-occupied country; or as clandestine organ of dissident group in enemy country; or as actual enemy station.

Word-of-Mouth Rumors - Planted by agents in an appropriate situation, and sufficiently plausible to retain their credibility.

Forgeries - (Commercial Documents, Military Documents, Business Stationery) - Used to intimidate collaborationists, implicate enemy officials, and harass the enemy’s secret police.

Poison Pen Letters - Disguised as letters from actual business firms, soldiers, or other individuals, and containing incriminating information.

Bribery - Inducing enemy officials to perform acts favorable to our cause.

Operational Ruses - False military orders, manifestos, and demoralizing rumors disseminated behind enemy front lines to induce surrender or tactical withdrawal.

https://archive.org/details/OfficeOfStr ... ions-nsia/
Most relevant to the Holocaust, they admit that they worked to "implicate enemy officials" and write "poison pen letters [...] containing incriminating information". Sound familiar? This would hardly be any more damning if it came right out and said "fabricate atrocities in concentration camps".

However, it's also obvious that a great deal of the OSS's work was concerned with demoralization, not incrimination. Investigation could help uncover the specific incriminatory work they partook in.
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On February 29, 1944 the British Ministry of Information sent the following note to the higher British clergy and to the BBC.
“I am directed by the Ministry to send you the following circular letter…”

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Here enlarged is the crucial part:

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It is often the duty of the good citizens and of the pious Christians to turn a blind eye on the peculiarities of those associated with us [he means the Russians]. The only alternative to denial is to distract public attention from the whole subject.

Experience has shown that the best distraction is atrocity propaganda directed against the enemy. Unfortunately the public is no longer so susceptible as in the days of the "Corpse Factory," the "Mutilated Belgian Babies," and the "Crucified Canadians."
Your cooperation is therefore earnestly sought to distract public attention from the doings of the Red Army by your wholehearted support of various charges against the Germans and Japanese which have been and will be put into circulation by the Ministry.
Your expression of belief in such may convince others.*
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant,
(Signed) H. HEWET, ASSISTANT SECRETARY
The above is from Edward J. Rozek’s book ‘Allied wartime diplomacy’.
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Like the U.S., Britain also had a covert rumors program. It was originally part of the Special Operations Executive, later the Political Warfare Executive. They would consider suitable rumors at weekly meetings, then send them to contacts in Europe to be spread by word of mouth.

The PWE was subordinate to the Joint Intelligence Committee. The chairman of the JIC for all of WWII was Victor Cavendish-Bentinck. The JIC was (and for the most part still is) the highest body in the British intelligence framework, making Cavendish-Bentinck the effective head of British intelligence.

In that role he had privileged access to rumors and reports that were coming in from across Europe, and yet, to summarize it very succinctly, he did not consider the gas chamber stories credible. Among his many statements to this effect, he wrote:
In my opinion it is incorrect to describe Polish information regarding German atrocities as ‘trustworthy’. The Poles, and to a far greater extent the Jews, tend to exaggerate German atrocities in order to stoke us up. [...] As regards putting Poles to death in gas chambers, I do not believe that there is any evidence that this has been done. There have been many stories to this effect, and we have played them up in P.W.E. rumours without believing that they had any foundation.

TNA, FO 371-34551, report by Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, Aug. 27, 1943.
As quoted in The Making of the Auschwitz Myth: Auschwitz in British Intercepts, Polish Underground Reports, and Postwar Testimonies (1941-1947). On the Genesis and Development of the Gas Chamber Lore. (2021) by Carlo Mattogno, p.43
Most remarkably, Cavendish-Bentinck acknowledged that Britain's rumor campaigns included stories about gas chambers, even despite his and his associates' lack of belief. Cavendish-Bentinck felt so strongly about this that he worked to get a reference to gas chambers stricken from a public statement, writing:
I daresay that my minute is too late to be of use but I feel certain that we are making a mistake in publicly giving credence to this gas chambers story.

Victor Cavendish-Bentinck to William Strang, 27th August 1943, FO 371/34551.
https://codoh.com/library/document/brit ... r-factory/
His desired correction was then made to the joint declaration, published on August 30.

Cavendish-Bentinck did not specify which gas chamber rumors he was referring to when he admitted to spreading them, but revisionists have found at least eight gassing rumors in the archives. Andy Ritchie quotes a report on one of these rumors mid-sentence:
that the Superintendent of the Bethel Institute for Incurables had been sent to Dachau for refusing to permit the inmates to be put in lethal chambers. Within two weeks it was reported that this rumour was circulating in Switzerland and, on the 19th December, that the Vatican had issued a decree condemning the killing of physical or mental deficients. The rumour has appeared in intercepted letters, and last Sunday the Sunday Express carried the story that 100,000 mental deficients had been executed.

SO2 Executive Committee, Progress Report for Week Ending 23.1.41, HS 8/216.
https://codoh.com/library/document/brit ... r-factory/
Which Ritchie points out is false because the director of the hospital did oppose euthanasia but was not sent to Dachau. Other of these rumors concerned German soldiers:
I was mobilised for service to carry heavily-wounded soldiers from the front to Poland… We drove into a tunnel not far from the Polish border. A colonel stepped into my driver’s cabin and ordered me to stop the train and put on my gas mask – at the point of a revolver. Veiled figures with gas masks jumped in to the train. In fifteen minutes I was ordered to drive on. Outside the tunnel we stopped again and to my horror I saw the bodies of my charges being tossed out of the window into a large mass grave, which had been dug by Polish slaves. I thought I must be dreaming. ‘Why doesn’t somebody do something?’ I screamed. No use: I realised they had all been gassed. My hair was grey when I looked in the glass again.

TNA, FO 898-71, P.W.E./Sibs (Rumours & whispers campaign). Come-Backs 1940-1943.
As quoted in The Making of the Auschwitz Myth (2021) by Carlo Mattogno, p.18
Although Germany did actually have Zyklon disinfestation tunnels for trains, which could well have inspired this rumor, no one today asserts that these were used for murder. Another rumor:
These stories about gassing the wounded on the East Front are due to a misunderstanding. The Gas Vans and Trains are used only for plague cases and are really merciful since the poor fellows would have no chance anyhow.

Sib R/729, Minutes of U.P. Committee Meeting, 14th November 1941, FO 898/69.
https://codoh.com/library/document/brit ... r-factory/
Here is a clear reference to gas vans already in 1941, halfway through November. This is quite surprising as according to Matthias Beer "the first gas-vans could be used only in the end of November of [sic] beginning December 1941". I am inclined to believe that the latter story was inspired by the former, in accordance with their chronological order.

Other rumors concerned things like cannibalism:
On entering Tunis Allied troops found dead children cut up as butchers’ meat in the German army store. Portions of them had already been used as pork ration. Typically enough, the Germans had filed their identity cards.

PWE rumor dated April 1943.
https://ihr.org/journal/v18n5p15_propaganda.html
Or other forms of corpse utilization, like this human soap rumor:
About 200,000 amputations have been made in Vienna hospitals. The meat is very sensibly being rendered for its fat for soap.

TNA, FO 898-69, “U.P. minutes for Friday 2nd July, 1943,” I/755
As quoted in The Einsatzgruppen in the Occupied Eastern Territories (2022) by Carlo Mattogno, p.468
As the ramifications of all this are quite obvious, I don't feel I need to add anything in conclusion. I do strongly suggest reading the above sources because they go into greater detail.
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Here in the original German is the account of the admission by an Allied Psy-op agent to PROF. DR. FRIEDRICH GRIMM in May of 1945.

It is assumed the agent was Sefton Delmer.

An English translation is in the first post of this topic-thread.

The whole book can be read here:

https://archive.org/details/GrimmFriedr ... it1953192S.

Politische Justiz
die Krankheit unserer Zeit
pgs.146-148.

Dazukommt in unserer Zeit die verheerende Einwirkung der Propaganda, die es den Menschen so schwer macht, auch den Gutgesinnten, die wirklichen Vorgänge des Zeitgeschehens zu erkennen und zu beurteilen. Sie hat uns schon in den letz-ten Jahren des ersten Weltkrieges und danach zu schaffen ge-macht. Hat man nicht von Lloyd George, der am Schluß des ersten Krieges die Wahlpropaganda in England mit dem Ruf: „Hängt den Kaiser!" betrieb, gesagt, daß er 1919 in Paris und Versailles und später, als er das Unrecht von Versailles wieder-gutmachen wollte, das Opfer seiner eigenen Propaganda ge-worden sei? Nach dem zweiten deutschen Zusammenbruch war es nicht anders. Jetzt war es schlimmer, weil es nun eine einseitige Propaganda der Gegner war, der deutscherseits nichts mehr entgegengesetzt werden konnte.

Ich hatte im Mai 1945, wenige Tage nach dem Zusammen-bruch, eine denkwürdige Aussprache mit einem bedeutenden Vertreter der Gegenseite. Er stellte sich mir als Universitäts-professor seines Landes vor, der sich mit mir über die historischen Grundlagen des Krieges unterhalten wollte. Es war ein Gespräch von hohem Niveau, das wir führten. Plötzlich brach er ab, zeigte auf die Flugblätter, die vor mir auf dem Tisch lagen, mit denen wir in den ersten Tagen nach der Kapitulation überschwemmt wurden und die sich hauptsächlich mit den KZ-Greueln beschäftigten. „Was sagen Sie dazu?", so fragte er mich. Ich erwiderte: „Oradour und Buchenwald? Bei mir rennen Sie da offene Türen ein. Ich bin Rechtsanwalt und verurteile das Unrecht, wo ich ihm begegne, am meisten aber, wenn es auf unserer Seite geschieht. Ich weiß jedoch einen Unterschied zu machen zwischen den Tatsachen und dem politischen Gebrauch, den man davon macht. Ich weiß, was Greuelpropaganda ist. Ich habe nach dem ersten Weltkriege alle Veröffentlichungen Ihrer Fachleute über diese Frage ge-lesen, die Schriften des Northcliffbüros, das Buch des französischen Finanzministers Klotz ,Vom Krieg zum Frieden**), in dem er schildert, wie man das Märchen von den abgehack- ten Kinderhänden erfand, und welchen Nutzen man daraus zog, die Aufklärungsschriften der Zeitschrift Crapouillot, die Greuelpropaganda von 1870 mit der von 1914/1918 vergleicht, und schließlich das klassische Buch von Ponsonby: ,Die Lüge im Kriege'. Darin wird offenbart, daß man schon im vorigen Kriege Magazine hatte, in denen man künstliche Leichenberge durch Fotomontage mit Puppen zusammenstellte. Diese Bilder wurden verteilt. Dabei war die Unterschritt trei gelassen. Sie wurde später je nach Bedarf durch die Propagandazentrale telefonisch aufgegeben." Damit zog ich eines der Flugblätter heraus, das angeblich Leichenberge aus den KZ's darstellte, und zeigte es meinem Besucher, der mich verdutzt ansah. Ich fuhr fort: „Ich kann mir nicht denken, daß in diesem Kriege, in dem alle Waffen so vervollkommnet wurden, diese geistige Giftwaffe, die den ersten Krieg entschied, vernachlässigt worden sein sollte. Mehr noch, ich weiß es! Ich habe die letzten Monate vor dem Zusammenbruch täglich die Auslandspresse gelesen. Da wurde von einer Zentralstelle aus über die deutschen Greuel berichtet. Das ging nach einem gewissen Turnus. Da kam ein besetztes Gebiet nach dem anderen dran, heute Frankreich, morgen Norwegen, dann Belgien, Dänemark, Holland, Griechenland, Jugoslawien und die Tschechoslowakei. Zunächst waren es Hunderte von Toten in den Konzentrationslagern, dann, wenn 6 Wochen später dasselbe Land wieder dran war, Tausende, dann Zehn-, dann Hunderttausende. Da dachte ich mir:
In die Million kann diese Zahleninflation doch nicht gehen!" Nun griff ich zu einem anderen Flugblatt: „Hier haben Sie die Million!"

Da platzte mein Besucher los: „Ich sehe, ich bin an einen Sachkundigen geraten. Nun will ich auch sagen, wer ich bin. Ich bin kein Universitätsprofessor. Ich bin von der Zentrale, von der Sie gesprochen haben. Seit Monaten betreibe ich das, was Sie richtig geschildert haben: Greuelpropaganda - und damit haben wir den totalen Sieg gewonnen."

Ich erwiderte: „Ich weiß, und nun müssen Sie aufhören!"

Er entgegnete: „Nein, nun fangen wir erst richtig an! Wir werden diese Greuelpropaganda fortsetzen, wir werden sie steigern, bis niemand mehr ein gutes Wort von den Deutschen annehmen wird, bis alles zerstört sein wird, was Sie in anderen Ländern an Sympathien gehabt haben, und bis die Deutschen selbst so durcheinander geraten sein werden, daß sie nicht mehr wissen, was sie tun!"

Ich schloß das Gespräch: „Dann werden Sie eine große Verantwortung auf sich laden!"

Was dieser Mann uns angedroht hatte, kam. Das Schlimmste aber war die Verwirrung, die dadurch unter den Deutschen angerichtet wurde. Greuelpropaganda und politische Justiz! Diese Begriffe gehören zusammen. Damit soll aber natürlich nicht alles entschuldigt werden, was Schlimmes vorgekommen ist. Es sind Dinge geschehen, auch auf deutscher Seite, für die es keine Entschuldigung gibt, und wenn auch nur ein Hundertstel von dem wahr wäre, was uns heute vorgeworfen wird. Wir entschuldigen die schlimmen Vorgänge nicht! Wir schämen uns ihrer! Aber wir weisen auch die Übertreibungen zurück und bemühen uns um Gerechtigkeit, auch für unser Volk! Der Haß darf darum nicht verewigt werden, und wir müssen trotzdem mit dem Problem der politischen Prozesse fertig werden. Es hat in Deutschland einmal eine Zeit gegeben, die man die „kaiserlose, die schreckliche Zeit" genannt hat. Die Menschen sehnten sich nach Frieden, Ruhe, Ordnung, Sicherheit und Recht. Damals war der Kaiser der Inbegriff des Rechts. Wir leben auch heute wieder in einem Interregnum. Die Menschen sehnen sich nach der Wiederherstellung des Rechts. Wir haben zwar wieder eine Verfassung mit vortrefflich formulierten Grundrechten. Auch die Siegermächte haben sich wieder zu den Menschenrechten bekannt, die sie neu formuliert haben.

Am 10. Dezember 1948 ist eine internationale Konvention zum Schutze der Menschenrechte und Grundfreiheiten abgeschlossen worden. Sie ist von der Bundesrepublik und einigen anderen Mächten, darunter auch England und Frankreich, ratifiziert und im Bundesgesetzblatt veröffentlicht worden. Aber die zehn Ratifikationen, die zu ihrem Inkrafttreten erforder- lich sind, sind noch nicht zusammengekommen. Die Kon- vention ist also noch nicht verbindlich, auch nicht für die Länder, die sie bereits ratifiziert haben. Die Folge ist, daß uns die Grundrechte immer noch vorenthalten bleiben. Die Engländer sind stolz auf ihre Magna Charta von 1215, ihre Petition of rights von 1627 und ihre Habeaskorpusakte von 1679 zum Schutze der persönlichen Freiheit. Aber wir haben gesehen, daß sie diese Grundsätze den Deutschen gegen- über nach Besatzungsrecht nicht anwenden. Als die Könige von Frankreich ihre berüchtigten Verhaftbefehle - die „lettres de cachet" - ausstellten, durch die sie mißliebige Personen entfernten, wurden sie vom Volk gestürzt, das die Menschenrechte verkündigte. Und dennoch fragt man sich heute noch mit Sorge, ob bei uns auf dem Gebiet der politischen Justiz die Rechtssicherheit wiederhergestellt ist, wie wir sie vor 1918 gekannt haben. Aus dieser Rechtsnot müssen wir wieder herauskommen. Diesen Zustand müssen wir überwinden! Die Völker wollen frei sein, frei von Angst. Sie wollen auch ihre Meinung wieder frei und ehrlich äußern dürfen, ohne darum Verhaftung und Verurteilung befürchten zu müssen. Am 24. Januar 1953 brachte die Frankfurter Allgemeine einen bezeichnenden Artikel aus dem Sonntagsblatt mit der Überschrift: „Das Türklopfen": „In dieser Woche geschah es wieder, daß es nachts an die Türe klopfte. Es klopfte in Moskau an die Türen der russischen Ärzte. Und diese Ärzte nahmen ihren kleinen Koffer mit Nachtzeug und Waschzeug und gingen fort. Es klopfte in Ost-Berlin an die Tür des ost-zonalen Ministers Dertinger. Und Herr Minister Dertinger nahm seinen kleinen Koffer mit Nachtzeug und Waschzeug und ging fort. Es klopfte in Westdeutschland an die Türen ehemaliger Nationalsozialisten. Und die ehemaligen National- sozialisten nahmen ihre kleinen Koffer mit Nachtzeug und Waschzeug und gingen fort. Es klopfte auch in Ägypten an die Türen von 25 höheren Offizieren. Und diese Offiziere .... Es wird wieder nachts an die Türen geklopft!"
Wie soll das alles enden? Heute wissen wir, wie es anfing. Ich entsinne mich noch des Wortes eines älteren Kollegen. Er sagte mit trauriger Stimme, als wir in Essen im Jahre 1933 im Wege der Gleichschaltung den Juristenverein in den natio- nalsozialistischen Juristenbund überführen mußten: „Jetzt haben wir unsere Freiheit verloren!" Wir wollten das damals nicht glauben. Die Erkenntnis kam erst allmählich. Aber wir müssen doch einmal den Weg zurück finden, zurück zur Freiheit und zurück zum Recht! Gibt es einen Ausweg aus dieser Wirrnis? Diesen Ausweg müssen wir suchen! Denn wir müssen doch weiterleben! Wir müssen wieder zusammenfinden, die Deutschen untereinander und die Deutschen mit ihren Gegnern von gestern. Es ist nicht länger tragbar, daß das deutsche Volk in zwei Gruppen zerfällt, von denen jede sich als Verfolgte eines Systems oder Regimes betrachtet. Es muß auch zu der Gemeinschaft der europäischen Völker kommen in dem Sinne, wie es Victor Hugo vor über hundert Jahren schon gefordert hat. Das Vergangene läßt sich nicht wiedergut- machen. Die volle Gerechtigkeit läßt sich nicht wiederherstellen. Denn es gibt keine Gerechtigkeit ohne Gleichheit. Die Gleichheit aber, die vor und nach 1945 so gründlich zerstört wurde, kann nicht wieder herbeigeführt werden. Wir müssen dennoch zum Recht zurückfinden, zu dem Recht, das Goethe meinte, wenn er von dem Ber heuerech, das im ie un geboren: Drange ist sich des rechten Weges stets bewußt." Die Idee des Rechts ist noch nicht tot in den Herzen der Menschen.
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Re: Allied deceptions, psy-ops and atrocity propaganda.

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This is a post-war matter, but I think you will agree it is highly relevant to the topic. In an interview in 1992, Austrian Jew and Hollywood filmmaker Billy Wilder spoke about Death Mills, the propaganda film he worked on while at the PWD.
After I had edited "Todesmühlen" and brought it to Germany, I showed the film to my department in Homburg and lobbied to have it shown to as many Germans as possible. I was told that the Germans, in order to defend themselves against the truth of the film, would claim that it was staged scenes with extras that the Jews in Hollywood wanted to use to humiliate the Germans.

We decided to test the film and its impact using a Hollywood method: a preview. [...] Of the 400 visitors, perhaps 50 remain in the cinema at the end. Not a single preview ticket had been filled out, but every pencil had been stolen.

After this depressing experience, when we considered how we could force Germans to confront the film and its subject matter, I made a suggestion: Since at the time, Germans had ration cards, without which they could buy neither bread nor meat, my idea was that these ration cards should be stamped after viewing "Todesmühlen," which would make them valid. This was then done in several cinemas in and around Frankfurt.

»Salto mortale vom sechsten Stock« in Der Spiegel, 09.08.1992. Translated to English.
https://archive.ph/35non
Death Mills did not use extras -- instead it capitalized on very real scenes of death and devastation imposed on Germany at the end of the war -- but it is accurate to say that the film was filled with lies and was made by Hollywood Jews to humiliate Germans. The German population would have been right to be skeptical.

But here Wilder admitted that in some cases atrocity propaganda was required viewing if you wanted to eat. No view, no rations. I doubt any more effective means of propagandizing a population could be conceived of.

This event finds corroboration but also denial in other sources.
It is repeatedly claimed that the population was forced to see TODESMÜHLEN. [PWD employee Hanuš] BURGER also caused confusion in this regard in an interview: "When the film was finished, every German had to see it."

"TODESMÜHLEN in Wien. Auf den Spuren eines Films im Dienste der Re-education." by Michaela Anderle, p.137. Translated to English.
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pp.94-95:

In 1981, the Vienna City and State Library (now the Vienna Library in City Hall) organized an exhibition entitled "Diary of the Street. History in Posters" in Vienna City Hall. [...] The running time of 22 minutes corresponds to the current version of TODESMÜHLEN, although it is stated that "in the American zones [...] it was made obligatory for people to watch the film." This claim is not tenable according to current research.

pp.109-110:

In the description of [Viktor] Matejka's speech, there is also a reference here to the fact that the city council mentioned "measures taken in a number of German cities to induce the Nazis, all of them, to watch the film." Viewing the film is the beginning of the admission of guilt and responsibility. In keeping with the re-education idea, only then are "the conditions in place for their brains to be able to think again like human brains, their hearts to feel again like human hearts."

p.113:

MATEJKA reports on the screening practice in Germany that the receipt of food stamps was tied to cinema attendance. According to current research, these were only isolated cases, which were also punished by the US authorities: “In some German cities, the ration cards of Nazis who saw the film are stamped. This is considered a small contribution to atonement.”

p.136:

These British files also describe an incident that occurred when TODESMÜHLEN was shown to the students and teachers of a school: "The concentration camp film [...] has been shown throughout the country, and, by a decision of the Socialist majority in the state government, all former Party members were forced to attend."
Susan Carruthers describes how there were initial plans to make Die Todesmühlen compulsory viewing, with Germans having to present their ration card for stamping as proof of their attendance. Given that the public was already having to pay to enter the cinema, though, this idea was eventually dropped. Instead, all the cinemas in the western zones were compelled to show the programme at the same time but even then, viewing figures proved disappointing from an Allied point of view. In the American sector of Berlin, for example, Carruthers notes that only 16 per cent of adults saw Die Todesmühlen, compared to the usual cinema-going population of 26 per cent. [...] Elsewhere, there were instances of German civilians being forcibly marched into cinemas to view newsreel reports on the concentration camps.

Postwar Germany and the Holocaust by Caroline Sharples, pp.14-15
So multiple parties had an interest in denying or downplaying that Germans were forced to watch this propaganda film, but their own sources confirmed it. Carruthers also gives other examples of compulsory viewing, and I would recommend her article in particular as the best source.
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Re: Allied deceptions, psy-ops and atrocity propaganda.

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Wetzelrad wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:19 pm This is a post-war matter, but I think you will agree it is highly relevant to the topic. In an interview in 1992, Austrian Jew and Hollywood filmmaker Billy Wilder spoke about Death Mills, the propaganda film he worked on while at the PWD.
After I had edited "Todesmühlen" and brought it to Germany, I showed the film to my department in Homburg and lobbied to have it shown to as many Germans as possible. I was told that the Germans, in order to defend themselves against the truth of the film, would claim that it was staged scenes with extras that the Jews in Hollywood wanted to use to humiliate the Germans.

We decided to test the film and its impact using a Hollywood method: a preview. [...] Of the 400 visitors, perhaps 50 remain in the cinema at the end. Not a single preview ticket had been filled out, but every pencil had been stolen.

After this depressing experience, when we considered how we could force Germans to confront the film and its subject matter, I made a suggestion: Since at the time, Germans had ration cards, without which they could buy neither bread nor meat, my idea was that these ration cards should be stamped after viewing "Todesmühlen," which would make them valid. This was then done in several cinemas in and around Frankfurt.

»Salto mortale vom sechsten Stock« in Der Spiegel, 09.08.1992. Translated to English.
https://archive.ph/35non
…it is accurate to say that the film was filled with lies and was made by Hollywood Jews to humiliate Germans. The German population would have been right to be skeptical.

But here Wilder admitted that in some cases atrocity propaganda was required viewing if you wanted to eat. No view, no rations. I doubt any more effective means of propagandizing a population could be conceived of.

…In the description of [Viktor] Matejka's speech, there is also a reference here to the fact that the city council mentioned "measures taken in a number of German cities to induce the Nazis, all of them, to watch the film." Viewing the film is the beginning of the admission of guilt and responsibility.

Susan Carruthers describes how there were initial plans to make Die Todesmühlen compulsory viewing, with Germans having to present their ration card for stamping as proof of their attendance.

[...] Elsewhere, there were instances of German civilians being forcibly marched into cinemas to view newsreel reports on the concentration camps.

Postwar Germany and the Holocaust by Caroline Sharples, pp.14-15
So multiple parties had an interest in denying or downplaying that Germans were forced to watch this propaganda film, but their own sources confirmed it. Carruthers also gives other examples of compulsory viewing, and I would recommend her article in particular as the best source.
Wow! Thanks for this. I was completely unaware of this method of indoctrination connected to ration cards.
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Wetzelrad wrote:
Wahrheitssucher wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 8:04 am But here Wilder admitted that in some cases atrocity propaganda was required viewing if you wanted to eat. No view, no rations. I doubt any more effective means of propagandizing a population could be conceived of.

…In the description of [Viktor] Matejka's speech, there is also a reference here to the fact that the city council mentioned "measures taken in a number of German cities to induce the Nazis, all of them, to watch the film." Viewing the film is the beginning of the admission of guilt and responsibility.

Susan Carruthers describes how there were initial plans to make Die Todesmühlen compulsory viewing, with Germans having to present their ration card for stamping as proof of their attendance.

[...] Elsewhere, there were instances of German civilians being forcibly marched into cinemas to view newsreel reports on the concentration camps.

Postwar Germany and the Holocaust by Caroline Sharples, pp.14-15
So multiple parties had an interest in denying or downplaying that Germans were forced to watch this propaganda film, but their own sources confirmed it. Carruthers also gives other examples of compulsory viewing, and I would recommend her article in particular as the best source.
Wow! Thanks for this. I was completely unaware of this method of indoctrination connected to ration cards.
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