death to Wis con sin
No, this family wasn't killed by a firing squad, but according to the pamphlet they might as well have been. By the 7th column.
The 5th Column is the army of spies and saboteurs infiltrating a country; the 6th Column helps this action along, (according to Webster's): "the aggregate of persons in a country at war who assist the subversive activities of the fifth column by defeatist talk, the spreading of rumors, and other activities that weaken resistance or appease the enemy".
The 7th column was carelessness–and evidently this was a push to roll back the tide of accidental death and injury in the U.S., something that was particularly important during wartime. According to this tract 102,500 Americans were accidentally killed every year, with another 350,000 becoming permanently disabled and 9,000,000 being injured. "We must stop burning down our factories" says the author, for these injuries and deaths would be along the same lines (in some fashion) of the U.S. being bombed.
https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2014/08/design-smash-the-7th-column-us-wwii-home-front-propaganda.html
https://twig.fandom.com/wiki/Sub_Rosa
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39936036-sub-rosa
Sub Rosa: The O. S. S. and American Espionage
by Stewart Alsop, Thomas Braden
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A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America’s precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II.
Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by Germany’s Nazi aggressors. Paratroopers Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden—both of whom would become important political columnists in postwar years—became part of Wild Bill’s able collection of soldiers, spies, and covert operatives. Sub Rosa is an enthralling insider’s history of the remarkable intelligence operation that gave birth to the CIA.
In Sub Rosa, Alsop and Braden take readers on a breathtaking journey through the birth and development of the top secret wartime espionage organization and detail many of the extraordinary OSS missions in France, Germany, Dakar and Casablanca in North Africa, and in the jungles of Burma that helped to hasten the end of the Japanese Empire and the fall of Adolf Hitler’s powerful Reich.
As exciting as any international thriller written by Eric Ambler or Graham Greene, Alsop and Braden’s Sub Rosa is an indispensable addition to the literary history of American espionage and intelligence.