Description
(Pamphlet) Go south to sunny Germany a land of sun and smiles awaits you
SK457
V1 propaganda pamphlet
In pretty good condition. Small damages, but not to bad considering it went through a war and was thrown out.
Rare to find!
Background information from Psywar website: This full-color V1 leaflet in the form of a two-page travel brochure was found near a Pfalz, Germany, V1 site in December 1944. The leaflet is coded SK 467. “SK” represents “Skorpion West,” the organization in charge of German propaganda for the western front. The front depicts a beautiful girl in a bathing suit and the text, “Go south to sunny Germany. A land of sun and smiles awaits you. Travel P.D.Q.” The back of the leaflet depicts a happy man and woman enjoying the winter sport of skiing. When opened, The leaflet has two vertical columns. The one at the left is entitled “Germany from without,” and has five paragraphs telling of the dangers to be expected by the invading Allies. It ends with “See Germany and Die.” The column on the right is “Germany from within.” It has seven columns telling of the good life of a prisoner-of-war and ends with “Winter in Germany is the perfection of the beautiful (according to Mark Twain).
