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Instructions for GB servicemen 1944

2) Introduction: "To begin with"

Instructions from the British Foreign Ministry for British Servicemen in Germany (November 1944)

Presentation by Michael Palomino (2014)

[German Wehrmacht is always "without mercy" - only British and "American" bombs are not...]

YOU are going into Germany.

You are going there as part of the Forces of the United Nations which have already dealt shattering blows on many fronts to the German war-machine, the most ruthless the world has ever known.

You will find yourselves, perhaps for some time, among the people of an enemy country; a country that has done its utmost to destroy us - by bombing, by U-boat attacks, by military action whenever its armies could get to grips with ours, and by propaganda.

[Churchill: One should not have mercy with Germans - and all arrangements in the "high lodges" are concealed]

But most of the people you will see when you get to Germany will not be airmen or soldiers or U-boat crews, but ordinary civilians - men, women and children. Many of them will have suffered from overwork, underfeeding and the effects of air raids, and you may be tempted to feel sorry for them.

You have heard how the German armies behaved in the countries they occupied, most of them neutral countries, attacked without excuse or warning. You have heard how they carried off men and women to forced labor, how they looted, imprisoned, tortured and killed. There will be no brutality about a British occupation, but neither will there be softness or sentimentality [p.6].

[Churchill: All Germans should be "brute" or "lying" or having "self-pity"]

you may see many pitiful sights. Hard-luck stories may somehow reach you. Some of them may be true, at least in part, but most will be hypocritical attempts to win sympathy. For, taken as a whole, the German is brutal when he is winning, and is sorry for himself and whines for sympathy when he is beaten.

So be on your guard against "propaganda" in the form of hard-luck stories. Be fair and just, but don't be soft.

[Churchill: All from German media should be a lie - all Germans should only lie and strain the truth]

You must remember that most Germans have heard only the German side of the war and of the events that led up to it. They were forbidden to listen to any news except that put out by their own Propaganda Ministry, and were savagely punished if they disobeyed. So most of them have a completely false impression of what has happened, and will put about - perhaps in good faith - stories that are quite untrue.

The impression you have gained of world events is much nearer the truth than the distorted conceptions spread by the German Propaganda Ministry. So don't let yourself be taken in by plausible statements.

[All Zionist manipulations and the deliberate prolongation of war by 2 years by the Zionists for waiting for atomic bombs against Germany are concealed].

[Churchill: All what German say should be only "justifications"]

Of course there are Germans who have been against the Nazis all along, though few of those who tried to do anything about it have survived to tell the tale. Even those Germans who have been more or less anti-Nazi will have their axe to grind. But there is no need for [p.7] you to bother about German attempts to justify themselves. All that matters at present is that you are about to meet a strange people in a strange, enemy country.

Your Supreme Commander has issued an order forbidding fraternisation with Germans, but there will probably be occasions when you will have to deal with them, and for that reason it is necessary to know something about what sort of people they are [p.8].

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