Barbara, born in 1914 in Božena Hauserová, earned a doctorate in law before she married & moved to America in 1941.
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1944: Barbara sent to Italy to attack morale of German army with: rumors fake orders leaflets about unrest among its military leaders
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Hours after German generals’ failed assassination attempt of Hitler, MO started working on what would become Operation Sauerkraut.
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Barbara–fluent in German, English, Czech, Slovak, & French–was chosen to interview German prisoners @ a camp south of Naples.
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Barbara picked prisoners to infiltrate frontline & distribute propaganda She made new identities & helped them memorize their stories
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4 days after Operation Sauerkraut launched, the German prisoners were ready for their mission.
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Prisoners were dressed in German uniforms & given forged identity papers, firearms, survival supplies, & 3,000 pieces of MO material.
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Prisoners nailed propaganda documents to trees & left them in streets. They also brought back intel, like location of German troops.
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Barbara’s League of Lonely War Women campaign claimed if soldier wore a heart on his lapel, a League member would offer companionship
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Axis morale was undermined by insinuating that German soldiers’ wives or girlfriends were being promiscuous or unfaithful.
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Barbara also produced propaganda convincing 600 Czech soldiers forced into German service to cross front lines into Allied territory.
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Barbara earned Bronze Star for her
#OSS work It was presented to her on April 6, 1945 by the MO chief in Rome http://bit.ly/2sjQtpQ#OSS75pic.twitter.com/2vk5Y651r2
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is MO tech still in use? Is it targeted on civilians? How advanced is psy-op intel/tech 75 yrs later??
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Kinda like what the media is trying to do to President Trump.
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More like what Putin and Fox News did to the American voter.
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thanks for the history lesson on all these amazing women!
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