Gustav Siegfried Eins (G. 3) was a British black propaganda radio station during World War II operated by the Political Warfare Executive. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Black propaganda is false material where the source is disguised Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and Black propaganda It was the brainchild of Sefton Delmer, and claimed to be an illegal radio station operating within Nazi Germany. Denis Sefton Delmer ( May 24, 1904 - September 4, 1979) was a British Journalist and Propagandist for the British The term pirate radio usually refers to illegal or unregulated radio transmissions Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers The callsign was based on the German Army phonetic alphabet for the letters GS, but had no meaning.
The programmes were recorded on glass disc at the Wavendon Towers studio then taken to the short wave radio stations at Gawcott and Potsgrove[1]. Wavendon is a Village and Civil parish in the south east of the Borough of Milton Keynes and ceremonial Buckinghamshire, England. Gawcott is a village in the Civil parish of Gawcott with Lenborough near Buckingham in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire,
The broadcaster was Peter Seckelmann, a refugee from Berlin, who used the name 'Der Chef' and claimed to be a proud, highly patriotic Prussian officer of the old school, totally loyal to Germany. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state In the first Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcast, immediately after the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland, Der Chef ranted that "As soon as there is a crisis, Hess packs himself a white flag and flies off to throw himself and us on the mercy of that flat-footed bastard of a drunken old cigar-smoking Jew, Churchill!"
Most of Der Chef's diatribes were directed against low- and middle-ranking Nazi Party officials, the socalled Partei Kommune, which he portrayed as selfish, corrupt and sexually depraved gangsters whose behaviour shamefully contrasted with 'the devotion to duty shown by our brave troops freezing to death in Russia'. Rudolf Walter Richard Hess ( Heß in German) (26 April 1894 &ndash 17 August 1987 was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. The, officially National Socialist German Workers' Party, ( abbreviated NSDAP) was a Political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945
The first broadcast was on the evening of 23rd May 1941 and the final broadcast in late October 1943[1]. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The scripting ostensibly had the Gestapo storm the station and shoot Der Chef. The ( contraction of ge heime Sta ats' po' lizei: "Secret State Police" was the official Secret police of Nazi Germany Unfortunately, the recording engineer who played the transcription did not understand German, and played the "death" of Der Chef twice. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
The station was replaced by Soldatensender Calais. Soldatensender Calais (G9 was a British Black propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War operated by the Political Warfare Executive
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Bibliography
- Black Boomerang - An Autobiography, Volume Two, (Secker & Warburg, 1962), D Sefton Delmer.
- The Black Game - British Subversive Operations Against the Germans During the Second World War, (Michael Joseph, 1982), Ellic Howe. ISBN 0-7181-1718-2
- The Secret History of PWE - Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945, (St Ermins Press, 2002), David Garnett. ISBN 1-903608-08-2
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References
- ^ a b Bletchley Park's Secret Sisters: Psychological Warfare in World War II, John A. Black propaganda is false material where the source is disguised During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and Black propaganda The US Department of Defense defines psychological warfare ( PSYWAR) as" The planned use of Propaganda and other Psychological actions Taylor, The Book Castle 2005, ISBN 1-903747-35-X
External links
- Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy An article about the scandalous nature of Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcasts and the complaint by British Socialist politician Sir Stafford Cripps. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps ( 24 April 1889 &ndash 21 April 1952) was a British Labour politician and Chancellor
- Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany Extensively illustrated paper describing the Allied effort in WW II to undermine Germany through unidentified or misidentified radio broadcasts.