ABSTRACT
Compared to the Soviet grand design the German approach to the new complex of agencies and methods is pedestrian. In their planning before the start of the campaign the Germans relied almost exclusively on the might of their Armed Forces, which, they thought, would assure a quick military defeat of Russia and, as a consequence, destroy Bolshevism. Most of the Russians who had in the beginning welcomed the Germans as liberators soon learned their lesson. German radio propaganda was not only handicapped by the short-sighted policy of the German political leadership, but it suffered also from psychological limitations of its own. The Germans also dropped leaflets over the Russian front, and the Russian soldiers were assured that these leaflets would serve as passes for them when they surrendered. Germans travelling in Russia on various missions were used as Intelligence agents.
