NAZI PROPAGANDA IN THE RUHR

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1949, Page 5

NAZI PROPAGANDA IN THE RUHR

(Rec. 8.10). BERLIN, February 20. In the Ruhr, police have started a widespread hunt for a mystery woman. She is said to be hiring agents to spread propaganda that “Hitler is alive and will return soon”. This is stated by the Associated Press Dusseldorf correspondent. He says: ‘A flood of these pamphlets has appeared during the past week in this industrial region. The police announced that they had arrested a man in the act of distributing leaflets in Cologne’s main railway station. With a swastika on top, the pamphlets bore the following text: ‘German people— What have the democrats brought. Suppression, humiliation and the destruction of our factories, and of oui forests, and now the Ruhr plan. But the slavery lasts only a short time. Our Fuehrer lives, and will return soon with unheard-of power, and will oppose our persecutors and win Heil Hitler’. , “The man arrested said he naa been working for a ‘female foreigner’ for two months. He said he had been receiving a ‘decent monthly salary’ and a supply of pro-Nazi literature. The police say this man left Walsum last December and nad been touring West Germany. “Meanwhile police at Bochum, have been unable to trace the origin or the leaflets that are being distributed there. These state: ‘The swastika will be. resurrected’.”