WW2 Propaganda

[Tony Smith]

Originally posted by Norm Cromie
I was facinated by the leaflets the Germans fired by artillery shells and left behind by the retreating Germans.

It wasn't just the germans who used Artillery to deliver Propaganda leaflets. The 25pdr has a shell type called "Base Ejection" which, among other uses, can be used to deliver airbursts of leaflets, either of the "Hand this to the nearest allied soldier to receive safe passage" type, or of the "Himmler has syphillis and is at home with your wife" type.
How sucessful were either of these for the Allies? Did it do more than keep the Germans supplied with cigarette paper and toilet paper?