The German Whisper: Connecticut’s Call to Action for all Citizens

The First Page, "Mr. Citizen, you are now on the firing line, Imperial Germany is not merely attacking on the western front. She is attacking in every community in the United States. Her assault is under the direction of the German General staff. It has been prepared as carefully as the strategy and tactics of military drive. As in Russia and in Italy, so here also a campaign off German propaganda- a gas attack of poisonous lies and rumors and false reports- has been launched successfully and is now under way. America is the strongest enemy that Germany has. A weakening of our public morale is as necessary to German success as the weakening of Russia's was. And the attempt to weaken us has already developed two main lines of movement. The first aims to destroy our unity of action with our allies by setting us against the French, the British, and the Japanese. The second prepossess to destroy our domestic unity by encouraging among us every sort of class dissension, religious difference, racial prejudice, and political quarrel."

This pamphlet further goes on to warn the reader against any efforts against the war effort, American soldiers and their allies, and to be alert of an active German attempt to harm moral by dismissing these reports as German lies concentrated by slander and false newspapers. The purpose of the pamphlet is to scare the reader into believing there is an active attack against them so that they will report and be on alert of anything that may be detrimental to the war effort.

The first page of the German Whisper states, "Mr. Citizen, you are now on the firing line, Imperial Germany is not merely attacking on the western front. She is attacking in every community in the United States. Her assault is under the direction of the German General staff. It has been prepared as carefully as the strategy and tactics of military drive. As in Russia and in Italy, so here also a campaign off German propaganda- a gas attack of poisonous lies and rumors and false reports- has been launched successfully and is now under way. America is the strongest enemy that Germany has. A weakening of our public morale is as necessary to German success as the weakening of Russia's was. And the attempt to weaken us has already developed two main lines of movement. The first aims to destroy our unity of action with our allies by setting us against the French, the British, and the Japanese. The second prepossess to destroy our domestic unity by encouraging among us every sort of class dissension, religious difference, racial prejudice, and political quarrel."

This pamphlet further goes on to warn the reader against any attacks against the war effort or American soldiers and their allies. It advises one to be alert to an active German attempt to harm morale, by dismissing these reports as German lies complete with slander and false news. The purpose of the pamphlet is to scare the reader into believing there is an active attack against them, so that they will be alert and report anything that may be detrimental to the war effort.