Die Innere Front

[1] The leaflet was produced twice-weekly on a hectograph machine and translated in five languages,[2][3] with each version having the byline "Campaign for a new free Germany".

[1] Communist Party of Germany (KPD) members that included the American journalist John Sieg[4] along with the German printer Herbert Grasse, established the production of the leaflet from December 1941 onwards.

[6] John Sieg and Herbert Grasse were members of the Neukölln Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and were experienced in printing and distributing leaflets, having previously released several different ones in the lead up to 1941 including 21 Seiten and Der Vortrupp.

[10] It was decided by Sieg, Grasse and Otto Grabowski (1892–1961) that Guddorf's report should be publicised and this initiated the production of the leaflet.

[10] According to Heinrich Scheel, the name of the magazine was programmatic i.e.designed in such a way as to follow a plan, representing "a whole program and said that the Liberation Front of the Peoples went right through the middle of Germany and German patriotism fought exclusively on this front against the Nazi regime"[6] The leaflet was specifically addressed to the German workers and foreign forced labourers and was translated into five languages.

[6] While many people who were part of the resistance group associated with Schulze-Boysen and Harnack wrote articles for the Die Innere Front , it was strictly a communist party organ and followed Soviet propaganda to the letter.