| Description | Typescript reports bundled to form a handbook, detailing the plans and procedures for conducting psychological warfare operations during Operation Overlord.
Contents:
I. Build-up phase.
II. The media for the conduct of combat propaganda.
III. "Nachrichten fuer die Truppe" as an adjunct to combat propaganda.
IV. The nature and scope of psychological warfare.
V. The strategy of psychological warfare.
VI. Psychological warfare combat operations in the assault phase.
VII. Psychological warfare combat operations - Falaise to le Havre.
VIII. Psychological warfare operations against the German garrisons at Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk.
IX. Psychological warfare combat operations - from the break-out from Normandy to the hold-up on the Maas.
X. The German counter-offensive in the Ardennes.
XI. From the Ardennes to the crossing of the Rhine.
XII. Unconditional surrender.
XIII. Consolidation propaganda activities.
Appendices.
Enclosed within the handbook is a letter from George Pitt-Rivers to De Beer, January 1945, regarding myth-making and psychological warfare; plus three letters to De Beer from the War Office, April-May 1946, regarding the French Military Attache's investigation into the actions of 21 Army Group. |