Between June 1942 and February 1943 the group distributed six
different leaflets denouncing Hitler and the Nazi regime.
Readers were urged to”Support the resistance movement!” in the
struggle for “Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and
protection of the individual citizen from the arbitrary action
of criminal dictator-states”. These were the principles that
would form “the foundations of the new Europe”. Thousands of
leaflets were produced using a hand cranked printing machine and
they reached most of the major cities in Germany. The attacks of
nervous irritation increased. One moment Hitler’s collar was too
tight and was stopping his circulation; the next his trousers
were too long. He complained that his skin itched. He suspected
poison everywhere, in the lavatory cistern, on the soap, in the
shaving cream or in the toothpaste, and demanded that these be
minutely analysed. The water used for cooking his food had to be
investigated as well. Hitler chewed his fingernails and
scratched his ears and neck u