Direct quotes from a German leaflet given to English soldiers during World War 2
"YOU HAVE BEEN TRAPPED!
YOU HAVE LANDED on the Continent to face the armed might of Germany-but not for the benefit of Britain!
Your country will gain ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from this struggle, no matter how well you may fight.
THE BOLSHEVISTS ALONE WILL PROFIT by your sacrifices. You have been trapped into risking your life for but one purpose the Bolshevization of Europe!
Consider these points, and ask yourself: WHY SHOULD YOU FIGHT FOR STALIN?
Why die for Stalin?
In dying for Stalin your soldiers are not dying for democracy or the preservation of the democratic form of government-they are dying for the establishment of Communism and a form of Stalinist tyranny throughout the world. Furthermore, they are not dying for the preservation of the integrity of small nations (England's old war-cry) but are dying so that Poland shall be a Soviet state; so that the Baltic States shall be incorporated in the Soviet Union and so that Soviet influence shall extend from the Baltic to the Balkans.
Every British soldier who lays down his life in this war is not only a loss to his own country; he is a loss to the common cause of European civilization. Germany's and England's quarrel is a form of traditional rivalry. It is more in the nature of a private quarrel which Germany did not seek. The Soviet Union's quarrel, however, is a quarrel with the WORLD. It is a quarrel with our common heritage and with all those values-moral, spiritual, cultural and material which we have, all of us-Englishman and German alike recognised, cherished and striven to maintain. TO DIE FOR THE DESTRUC- TION OF THESE VALUES IS TO DIE IN VAIN.
Stalin, with all the diabolical power of Communism behind him, is seeking to profit from Britain's and Germany's preoccupation. The amount of influence which Britain can exercise on Stalin can be measured by the latter's undisputed claims to the sovereign territories of other nations. The only control- ling influence left on Stalin is the strength and tenacity of the German Wehrmacht and of the European volunteers who support Germany in her fight for the survival of Europe, and its position as the cradle of our common civilization.
Every British soldier who dies for Stalin is another nail in the coffin of Britain's hopes of maintaining a "Balance of Power" in Europe.
Should the "Equilibrium" pass to Stalin then the equilibrium of the world is at an end.
THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT
TO DIE-THINK IT OVER!
