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Soldatensender Calais

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Official Memorandum signed by Brigadier-General Robert A. McClure, Chief of PWD/SHAEF, regarding policy and methods of black propaganda against Germany. Although signed by McClure the author of the memo is almost certainly Sefton
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operated on the mediumwave band on 833 kHz (360 metres), 714 kHz (420 metres), and 612 kHz (490 metres), with an associated shortwave station
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Extensively illustrated paper describing the Allied effort in World War II to undermine Germany through unidentified or misidentified radio broadcasts.
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broadcast information that was intended to impress German intelligence officers that the invasion area was wider than it actually was. After the
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swindling German soldiers being transferred from France to the Russian front. This approach could be compared to those used by
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in Sussex, England, where it was briefly the world's largest medium wave station, perfect for deceptive "black" operation.
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Other clandestine radio stations operated by the Political Warfare Executive and its forerunners during the war included
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The controversy between the British Broadcasting Corporation and Political Warfare Executive over Soldatensender Calais
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The Black Game—British Subversive Operations Against the Germans During the Second World War
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was glad to sell it overseas and the British Secret Service bought it for
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G.9 Kurzwellensender Atlantik / Soldatensender Calais Daily Transcripts
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The station closed on 30 April 1945 without any official announcement.
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Bletchley Park's Secret Sisters: Psychological Warfare in World War II
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The Secret History of PWE—Political Warfare Executive 1939–1945
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Churchill's Wizards The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945
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s broadcast was repeated in print the next day in the PWE/
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British black propaganda radio station during World War II
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Policy and Methods of Black Propaganda against Germany
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area was overrun, the station changed its callsign to
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Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany
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History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
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Index


[zɔlˈdaːtn̩ˌzɛndɐkaˈlɛː]
black propaganda
Second World War
Political Warfare Executive
Kurzwellensender Atlantik
WJZ
Newark, New Jersey
Federal Communications Commission
50 kW power limit
RCA
£
Aspidistra
Crowborough

local time
Gustav Siegfried Eins
Milton Bryan
Bedfordshire
Agnes Bernelle
propaganda
Sefton Delmer
confidence men
Tokyo Rose
Axis Sally
Axis
Adolf Hitler
D-Day
Pas de Calais
OSS

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