The Nazi broadcast picked up by the Daily Express's radio
station on Monday, and printed in that paper the next day, was sensational. " We are attacked almost continuously by Russian fighter-planes," declared Joachim Richter, war-re- porter, who professed to be speaking from the Russian front, " they swoop over us all of a sudden, and give us no chance to bring our A.A. guns into action. . . . These Russian planes attack us anywhere, coming out of the blue." Now either this is a genuine broadcast from the Russian front, or—which seems more likely—it is a fake. But if so why? What good purpose was to be served by telling the German people that the Russian air-fleet, which had been officially destroyed a fort- night before, was knocking German batteries out? Perhaps it was Goering, said to be Gestapo-cordoned on his country-estate, getting a little of his own back.
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