Labels:book | bulletin board | clock | envelope | extrados | hakham | reckoner | sky OCR: The civilian population of France received no better treatment Herr Goebbels's persistent slander machine brow beat them with his radio propaganda which spread defeatism and insisted that France had been betrayed by her ally, Great Britain Horrible rumors were spread through towns and villages augmented by mysterious reports of massacre and may hem over the wireless All these were designed to flush the refugees into the streets to clog roads desperately needed for military transport And when the highways were congested with terrified civilians Hitler sent in the Luftwaffe to strafe them with machine gun fire to increase their panic History stands a witness, impartial and stern, to the overwhelming success of these tactics France fell in an unprecedented 43 days and now Great Britain stands ...