phlets, books, leaflets, and pictures were offered as follows: —
3 marks (nominally 3s.) for the first copy.
30 pfgs. (nominally 4d.) for other copies.
5 marks (nominally 5s.) for a book.
An order issued by Ludendorff showed that the influence of the propaganda extended beyond the troops to the population of Germany. This read:
"There has been an increase in the number of complaints received from home that men on leave from the front create a very unfavourable impression by making statements actually bordering on high treason and incitement to disobedience. Instances such as these drag through the mud the honour and respect of the individual as well as of the whole Army, and have a disastrous effect upon the moral of the people at home."
A "high officer at the front" describing, in the Kölnische Zeitung of October 31, 1918, the demoralisation of the German Army as a result of the retreat, wrote:
