Overview
- Tells the story of the BBC’s attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained
- Sheds light on the complex, often difficult working arrangements at the wartime BBC
- Explores the delivery of an effective propaganda programme that would assist the Allies in defeating the Nazis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
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This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC’s attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone, whose names could only be mentioned in whispered conversations on the continent? Who wrote the satirical sketches that offered comic relief to housewives struggling to obtain enough food to feed their families? And who made decisions about programme delivery and staffing? Drawing extensively on previously unexamined archival material, The BBC German Service during the Second World War: Broadcasting to the Enemy sheds light on the complex, often difficult working arrangements at the wartime BBC where people from different nationalities and socio-political backgrounds collaborated and argued about the delivery of an effective propaganda programme that would assist the Allies in defeating the Nazis.
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Book Title: The BBC German Service during the Second World War
Book Subtitle: Broadcasting to the Enemy
Authors: Vike Martina Plock
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74092-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74091-7Published: 17 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74094-8Published: 17 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74092-4Published: 16 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Germany and Central Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Cultural History, Social History