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his incompetence and falseness .
'I'hey will cling as
long as possible to the illusion of his omniscience
because without this they have nothing.
Vjhen it
comes, the. disenchantment will be sudden and catastrophic
to German morale generally.
The Allies can rely on the march of physical
events to bring about the eventual disenchantment
of the German people; but since events will march
faster and the war will end sooner if this disenchantment
can be hastened by other means , the Allies should
not overlook the power of words to change sentiments
and attitudes.
The following suggestions may prove
of some value .
1 . (a) Technique of communication.- One
effective method would be that of printing leaflets
containing the names, rank and regiments of German
soldiers recently taken prisoner .
The Gestapo could
hardly succeed in preventlhg anxious parents from
picking up these leaflets to obtain the latest news
of their sons at the front . Co~~unications of this
sort might start somewhat as follows: NE~jS FROT,I THE
FRON T .
Among the 20,000 German so 1 dier s who s urrendere d
to the \~orld
Army in Slcily the follovlinc; were happy
at the prospect of going to America, the 1 and of free