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Nazi calling cards: propaganda leaflets warning of wayward wives to be sold

Nazis dropped propaganda leaflets on British soldiers telling them their wives were sleeping with Americans - complete with cartoons depicting their inidelity - it has emerged.

The German propaganda material was dropped above the British lines in Europe during the Second World War in a last ditch attempt to get the Allies to surrender.

They documents stated: "You are fighting and dying far away from your country while the Yanks ... have got loads of money and loads of time to chase after your women."

They include a cartoon of a GI canoodling on a bed with a British soldier's wife.

The postcards have emerged after 70 years along with other leaflets which claimed the Nazis stood up for human rights – while they were killing six million Jews in the Holocaust....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)