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.