Abstract

Behind the Enemy Line

The latest slogan coined by the Berlin, Germany, Propaganda Ministry is a variation of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Great Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill formula. It calls on the people for "unconditional resistance." One of the Ministry's under secretaries first used the phrase at a mass meeting on September 24, 1944. The most interesting campaign of recent weeks is that against soldiers who come back from the western front with terrible tales of what they have been through and of how the war is going. The Vienna edition of the newspaper "Völkische Beobachter," for September 16 in its announcement of executions mentioned that of an accountant who in conversation with other employees had uttered the aphorism: "it is better to be a coward for five minutes than to be dead all one's life."