1 10 5 https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/a3569678247f36d602e55995b5ec15a7.jpg 02019852d9f589f219c90c7a5e50bd9e https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/0ebedf66a3a23f36d72808e5572510f4.jpg 3c0d68b37aa6621f710cd7b8bf0b9ca8 https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/27d38208964a04cecd3e4d514e61dd71.jpg 437d51aa56a346c3a94ce3229ebdc371 https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/cc607ac7efc4e0ff28e6e2781fe6d488.jpg a7c9e70d075a46238b1d1b1227aa1dd5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allied Propaganda Leaflets Subject The topic of the resource Allied propaganda leaflets made for Axis soldiers. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Flyer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource US Propaganda Leaflet for Japanese Soldiers on Manokwari, New Guinea Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Translation provided by Yuske Tamura Description An account of the resource The soldiers are left behind while the officers retreat https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/da32b70afa2fb84e9cc33144e060686d.jpg 65c7c4ef08aff31a26172a74c60520d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allied Propaganda Leaflets Subject The topic of the resource Allied propaganda leaflets made for Axis soldiers. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Propaganda Leaflet to Italian forces in East Africa (No. 100) Subject The topic of the resource Given the places named in the leaflet it was likely dropped on Italian forces garrisoned in Massawa under Admiral Mario Bonetti. What's particularly interesting is the British claim that they are the only ones maintaining "public order" which could be construed in this context as control over the native Eritrean population. The veiled threat of the leaflet is that unless the Italians surrender, they will be cut off from support and abandoned to fend for themselves against the local population. Description An account of the resource English translation of leaflet text: "Warning! Your retreat continues south from Asmara to Tigray. The war is over, but your commanders, always ready to sacrifice you and your families, pretend to maintain the resistance. We therefore warn you that any movement of organized groups on the Asmara-Massawa and Asmara-Macalle roads will be considered as a hostile movement and will be attacked by our air force. Leave the streets. Wait for our arrival and surrender to us. Remember that today we are the only ones guaranteeing public order in Italian Eastern Africa." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Purchased from The War Store in Johannesburg, South Africa Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Likely early April 1941 https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/7ba40e301e4b4f8de812e5f3308ce35c.jpg e22064ac9e54a6bee38f1f02a65b0728 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allied Propaganda Leaflets Subject The topic of the resource Allied propaganda leaflets made for Axis soldiers. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Propaganda Leaflet to Italian Forces in East Africa (No. 29) Subject The topic of the resource This leaflet was also likely dropped on Italian forces garrisoned at Massawa or another location in Eritrea. It mentions the loss of Kismayo and Mogadishu which was taken by the 11th and 12th African division during February 1941. The content of the leaflet talks of the threat to Italian women and children from continued fighting and would seem to imply one of their colonial strongholds where this would be the case. Description An account of the resource English translation of leaflet text: "To the Italians of East Africa Wishing to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, we invite you to lower your weapons. You are now entirely isolated. Your ships in Kismayo and Mogadishu have been taken. You are stuck in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The activity of the Abyssinian patriots rapidly spreads to every mile of the advance of our troops. Consider our words carefully, we address you for reasons of humanity. If you continue the desperate struggle you will do nothing but waste useful lives and at the same time expose your women and children to the deprivations and dangers inseparable from war operations." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Purchased from The War Store in Johannesburg, South Africa Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Likely early April 1941 https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/7e28ce2331461aee3cb5e52a98f154df.jpg 3d14045912551fb9e98ce1a63eb295e2 https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/d675875d2033812fc0c2ae8b43cdca65.jpg c36e18b028a935d3f38df5241d17351c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allied Propaganda Leaflets Subject The topic of the resource Allied propaganda leaflets made for Axis soldiers. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource US/British Safe Conduct Pass Leaflet for German Soldiers in Europe Subject The topic of the resource A common allied safe conduct pass dropped on German soldiers post D-Day. Description An account of the resource (Translation of the back side of the sheet) Principles of the Law of War Captives (According to the Hague Convention 1907, Geneva Convention 1929) From the moment of surrender, German soldiers are regarded as prisoners of war and fall under the protection of the Geneva Convention. Accordingly, their rights as soldiers will be fully respected. Prisoners of war are to be brought to collection points as soon as possible, far enough away from the danger zone to ensure their personal safety. They will receive the same food, in quality and quantity, as members of the Allied armed forces, and if sick or wounded, they will be treated in the same hospitals as Allied troops. Badges and valuables are to remain with the prisoners of war. Money may only be taken by officers at the collection points, and for this, a receipt will be issued. In the prisoner-of-war camps, sleeping quarters, allocation of accommodation, bedding, and other facilities are to be equivalent to those of the Allied garrison troops. According to the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war may neither be subjected to reprisals nor exposed to public curiosity. After the end of the war, they will be sent home as soon as possible. Soldiers are defined, under the Hague Convention (IV, 1907), as all armed persons wearing a uniform or a clearly recognizable insignia. Rules for Capture: To avoid misunderstandings during capture, the following is required: Lay down weapons, remove helmet and belt; raise hands and wave a handkerchief or this leaflet. US/QB-ZG61-1944 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Acquired from Antiekcentrum Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Translation provided by ChatGPT. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1944 https://cicmuseum.org/files/original/e894ed7b13af507d00ac7b52a3b1e56c.jpg 8df45283b1b671924593d9a48f9a16a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allied Propaganda Leaflets Subject The topic of the resource Allied propaganda leaflets made for Axis soldiers. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource League of Lonely War Women (English Language Draft Copy) Subject The topic of the resource This appears to be an English language draft copy of Corporal Barbara Lauwers League of Lonely War Women propaganda leaflet for German soldiers. Barbara Lauwers Podoski (born Božena Hauserová on April 22 , 1914 , in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; died August 16, 2009 , in Washington, D.C. , United States ) was a Czechoslovak - American agent. During World War II, she worked for the U.S. intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Her propaganda operations led hundreds of soldiers to defect to the Allied side . Barbara Lauwers was born Božena Hauserová in Brno , which at that time belonged to Austria-Hungary and from 1918 to Czechoslovakia . She studied law at the University of Paris and Masaryk University in her birthplace. She earned her doctorate in law from the latter and subsequently worked as a lawyer. In 1939, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by Nazi Germany , she married the American Charles Lauwers in Zlín and emigrated with him to the Belgian Congo , where she worked for the shoe manufacturer Bata . Two years later, the couple emigrated to New York . When Charles Lauwers volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States' entry into World War II , Barbara Lauwers, as she now called herself, moved to Washington, D.C. , and began working in the press office of the Czechoslovakian embassy. As a ghostwriter , she wrote a book for each pair of Czechoslovakian colonels stationed there . On June 1, 1943, the day she received U.S. citizenship , she joined the Women's Army Corps . Because of her language skills—she was fluent in English, French, German, Czech, and Slovak—she was selected for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which had been established a year earlier. After an initial posting in Washington, she was transferred to Algiers in North Africa in early 1944 and finally, in light of the Italian campaign , to Rome , to the Department of Morale Operations . There, she conducted interrogations of prisoners of war , among other things, to recruit them as deserters for propaganda purposes . During one such interrogation , Private Lauwers learned from a captured sergeant that the Wehrmacht was using primarily Czechs and Slovaks for "dirty work" on the Italian front. This gave Lauwers an idea, but he subsequently felt her wrath. When he spoke disparagingly about US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , Lauwers lost her temper and punched him in the nose. She borrowed both a Czech and a Slovak typewriter from the Vatican and prepared a leaflet in both languages ​​to encourage enemy soldiers to desert, claiming they were being used by the enemy. The contents of the leaflets were also broadcast on the BBC radio. Within a week, hundreds of Czech and Slovak soldiers had defected to the Allied side; at least 600 of them had the leaflets designed by Lauwers with them. Lauwers' main focus then shifted to producing so-called black propaganda to demoralize and disinform the Germans. This particular form of psychological warfare aimed to convince the enemy that, for example, the leaflets were their own creations. As part of Operation Sauerkraut, Lauwers designed further leaflets, including one claiming that the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler had led to a revolt within the German army. Another leaflet announced Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's resignation from all his posts, as he considered the war lost. German prisoners of war held in Italy, selected by Lauwers and persuaded to desert, distributed this propaganda behind German lines after their release. Kesselring, the German commander-in-chief in Italy, was forced by the success of the operation to publicly deny the allegations against him. With his promotion to corporal , Lauwers was given responsibility for the next operation, the League of Lonely War Women . Leaflets were distributed among German soldiers on leave, urging them to cut out the paper heart printed on the leaflet and lean it against their glasses in public places like bars and restaurants. Members of the League of Lonely War Women, as it was dubbed in German, would then approach the soldiers so they could satisfy their own desires and the women's desires for physical intimacy. Since their husbands were away due to the war, they hoped to find temporary replacements in the soldiers on leave. This was intended to sow suspicion among the soldiers that their own wives at home were also being unfaithful. "Of course we're also selfish – separated from our husbands for years, with all these strangers around us, we'd like to hug a real German boy again. No inhibitions: Your wife, sister, and lover is also one of ours." – Association of Lone Warrior Women : Leaflet Lauwers wrote the wording of the leaflet herself, using common German soldier slang to ensure a high degree of authenticity. This deception proved successful and so convincing that even the Washington Post fell for it on October 10, 1944, and reported on it. For her service with the OSS, Barbara Lauwers was awarded the Bronze Star on April 6, 1945. After the war, Lauwers spent several years in Czechoslovakia. However, she returned to the United States before the February 1948 coup and initially worked for Voice of America , the official overseas broadcaster of the United States. She also worked as a general assistant at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. During the war, she had divorced her husband, Charles. From 1948, she worked for 20 years as a research assistant at the Library of Congress . During this time, she met Joseph Junosza Podoski, whom she married in 1954. The couple had one daughter. Upon her retirement in 1968, she returned to Austria , where she remained for nine years, working as an assistant in the Vienna office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . In 1977, she moved back to Washington. Seven years later, Joseph Podoski died. In 1999, shortly before Barbara Lauwers Podoski herself, her last partner, J.R. Coolidge, died. Lauwers Podoski succumbed to cardiovascular disease on August 16, 2009, at Veterans Affairs Hospital in Washington. Most of her work during World War II only became public in 2008 when the files from her time with the OSS were released. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Acquired from Stephen Wheeler Medals in London, UK. Information taken from Wikipedia. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1944