Basic Overview
End date: 31 July 1943
Scope: Minor
Nature: Air, Propaganda/misinformation
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Eastern Front
Nations Involved
- Germany
- USSR
Operation Details
'Silberstreif' (ii) was the German overall designation for its localised propaganda operation against the USSR using air-dropped leaflets in an attempt to persuade Soviet troops to desert and surrender themselves to Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' (6 May 1943 onward).
,A programme which achieved little success, 'Silberstreif' (ii) was organised by Heinz-Danko Herre, the deputy of Oberst Reinhard Gehlen of the Fremde Heere Ost, the German army’s intelligence apparatus concerned with the Soviet ground forces.
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