The leaflet back reads: “The American invasion in the heart of Germany has begun. The allied infantry and artillery roll into the Rhine under the protection of thousands of Jabos [fighter planes] and bombers in an unstoppable storm. Nothing can stop the flood: [Field Marshal] Rundstedt has spent the last reserves in the senseless and deplorable winter offensive on Himmler’s orders. There is no barrier in the west.
There is no barrier in the east. Silesia, East Prussia, and the Wartheland [captured Polish territory] are overrun by the Russians. “Springtime in Berlin,” Marshall Stalin announced – and the Red Army will keep that appointment. Neither Goebbels’ propagandist lies, nor Himmler’s militia of children and crude people will being the Soviet steamroller to a halt.
The Army Command knows that the thinned out armed forces are no longer a serious opposition.
The Army Command knows that all is lost.
The statements about the Russian storm flood by German officials compel the Army Command to erect a “blockade” in the west.
According to top-secret information from the command of the 6th Army Panzer Division, the 6th Panzer Army was ordered to the eastern front on 21st January, 1945.
That means that your last armored support in the west is drawn off.
For your generals, it is only a “false fight”, but you must further risk your life for this game.
Remember: If you fall during these days, in this false fight, you are dead, not false-dead.
Decide: Death – for a fake maneuver
or
life – for the future!”