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The Luftpost was an Allied propaganda newspaper delivered as we see by the RAF and USAAF–and this one, “delivered” in the closing days of the war on April 11, 1945, is loaded with information that was meant to undermine any German resistance with news of the collapse of the Wehrmacht.  “Bremen and Hannover are Threatened” and “Across the Leine, Goettingen and Wuerzburg have fallen”; its was reported that the Luftwaffe “reappeared” and 101 of them duly destroyed; fighting in Yugoslavia going well, in Italy there was “a new massive onslaught”, and “endless columns” of newly-surrendered German troops have added themselves to the million+ existing German POWs. And on and on in a litany of destruction and demise and death of Germany.  On the reverse are several photos showing American rations going to German families, milk going to children, and the people of Munchen-Gladbach receiving their first instructions from the occupying military government.  In short–the delivery of food and health and structure from the Allies, offering a safe and real alternative to fighting.