ABSTRACT
On Sunday, June 29 [1941] the Nazis unleashed their propaganda. They had erected loudspeakers at intervals along all the main thoroughfares, such as the Unter den Linden and the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. From these and over radios in all parts of the Reich they began early in the morning to release communiqués. An announcer would interrupt whatever programme was on the air to tell the people that a communiqué would be heard in zehn Minuten. Military band music and marching songs followed. Five minutes later the announcer said the communiqué would be heard in fünf Minuten. Finally, after the stirring music, came a fanfare, a blast of trumpets and a roll of drums, and the dramatic announcement beginning; ‘Aus dem Führerhauptquartier gibt das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht bekannt: …’
