ECONOMIC WARFARE
Germany’s Vulnerability (8.0-W.) RUGBY, October 6. Russian resistance at Stalingrad has affected not only the German armies, but has also had material and psychological effects on toe German people.” Mr Dingle Foot, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, made this statement in a speech in London. The necessity to maintain and equip 1,000.000 men in toe field made Germany more vulnerable to economic warfare, he declared. Consequently it followed that, whatever the Allies could do to assist Russia with vital supplies, would have the effect of speeding up toe attack on toe German Home Front. The Germans had formidable defences but they were not invincible and four methods of economic warfare were being employed against them. These were: (1) A long distance blockade to prevent cargoes from being loaded. (2) The destruction of Axis shipping round toe European coasts. (3) The activities of toe Bomber Command. (4) The passive resistance of toe enslaved peoples of the occupied counThis last was encouraged by broadcasts and had taken many forms. Peasants had hidden nickel coinage the Germans would like to have had and were also holding back their produce wherever possible.
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Southland Times, Issue 24869, 8 October 1942, Page 5
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193ECONOMIC WARFARE Southland Times, Issue 24869, 8 October 1942, Page 5
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