This document I just received today. It is a surrender request which was dropped over Russian lines. It translates..."To the Red Army soldiers 1254 regiment, 378th Division. Your commander sent on Dec. 11,1943 a group of reconnaisance soldiers. This expedition found that our position around the village of Teremets was vulnerable. After your attack, a completely different result took place. Try to remember again the 11th of December, and what you personally had to struggle through that night During the several hours that you have been under the most severe artillary bombardment, the German weapons have carried death into your lines. German soldiers have destroyed all your bunkers and taken many prisoners. See how thin have become the lines of your three battalions. How many of your comrades have died? How many wounded? Do you know how many of your comrades have surrendered to us and come over to our side? All of them who are with us right now are going to have a happy future. All of them now acknowledge that everything you have learned from your political teachings regarding the bad treatment and food given by Germans to Prisoners is only a bad lie!"
"A bad lie..." Yeah Right We all know the famous hospitality and good treatment of POWS by the Germans to the Russians,Jews, Gypsies & assorted others whom they considered to be Untermensch. I just love documents like this, and propaganda in general