NAZI LIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 5

NAZI LIES

ON SUBJECT OF RUSSIAN LOSSES RIDICULED BY SOVIET CIVILIANS COUNTED IN. LEGEND ABOUT STALIN LINE. LONDON, August 8. A Moscow supplementary communique headed “Fairy Tales of the German High Command” declares that the German Army’s heavy losses and the Red Army’s ever-growing resistance against the invaders have disastrously affected not only the spirit and morale of the German Army but also the spirit and morale of the whole German people. It adds: “While concealing from the German people the German Army’s real losses the High Command feeds them on absurd lies like its fantastic figures cabled yesterday. It also endeavours to explain the heavy German losses and protracted nature of the campaign by creating a legend about the existence of a powerful fortified Stalin Line whereas no special Stalin Line exists. “The Soviet, of course, created fortified points wherever necessary, but these have not constituted a special Stalin Line. The Red Army and population are transforming every inch of their native land into a fortified zone. “Nazi propaganda surpassed itself with fantastic figures of Soviet losses. The technique of these mendacious estimates is that the Nazis after seizing any Soviet area mobilise by force peasants and other workers and women for hard labour or' drive them to the rear. Then they declare them as war prisoners. Thus the Germans fabricate the legend about the number of Red Army men taken prisoner. The German High Command is forced to issue these obviously false reports as the result of the failure of its blitzkreig and the failure of its bandit designs to secure grain, cattle, factories, and reserves of raw material.”