I am playing Call of Duty Classic and in one part of the game, there is a German voice over some intercoms offering the Russian soldiers a sort of free surrender. The German was saying the Russians would get hot food and water and would get to return home once the war was over.
Is this historically accurate? If so, did anybody actually give in to it?
Virtually every army in WWII attempted various forms of propaganda and psychological warfare to persuade enemy units to surrender. Planes dropped leaflets, sound trucks with loudspeakers blasted messages to enemy troops, there were even propaganda-delivering artillery shells!. These promised that anyone who surrendered would be given safe passage and good treatement. Generally, these efforts didn't have much effect beyond giving the other side toilet paper.
But there were certainly incidents of soldiers (primarily German, Japanese, Italian, and Russian) soldiers surrendering clutching leaflets. Surrendering often did not turn out well for them...
One tactic the Germans and Russians used was to use appeals by current POWs to persuade their comrades to surrender. The Russian-sponsored League of German Officers used radio and leaflet appeals by German POWs in Russian hands in an attempt to persuade their fellow Germans to surrender. The Germans tried something similar with the Russian Liberation Army persuading some anti-Soviet Russian soldiers to defect and fight against the USSR.