''Gustav Siegfried Eins'' (GS1) was a British

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radio station during

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operated by the

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(PWE). It was the brainchild of

Sefton Delmer Denis Sefton Delmer (24 May 1904, Berlin, Germany – 4 September 1979, Lamarsh, Essex) was a British journalist of Australian heritage and propagandist for the British government during the Second World War. Fluent in German, he became friendl ...

, a former

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German service announcer recruited by PWE in 1940,''British Intelligence'', Stephen Twigge, Edward Hampshire, Graham Macklin, pp72-73, The National Archives 2008, and claimed to be an illegal radio station operating within

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. The callsign was based on the German Army

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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

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and

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.''Bletchley Park's Secret Sisters: Psychological Warfare in World War II'', John A. Taylor, The Book Castle 2005,

Broadcasts

The broadcaster was Peter Seckelmann, a

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from Berlin, who used the name "''Der Chef''" and claimed to be a proud, highly patriotic

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n officer of the old school, totally loyal to Germany. In the first ''Gustav Siegfried Eins'' broadcast, immediately after the flight of

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, ''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 Chefs diatribes were directed against low- and middle-ranking

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officials, the so-called ''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'. The first broadcast was on the evening of 23 May 1941 and the final broadcast in late October 1943. The scripting ostensibly had the

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storm the station and shoot ''Der Chef''. Unfortunately, the recording engineer who played the transcription did not understand German, and played the "death" of Der Chef twice. The station was replaced by ''

Soldatensender Calais __NOTOC__ Soldatensender Calais (G.9) (, ''Soldiers' Radio Calais'') was a British black propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War operated by the Political Warfare Executive. It pretended to be a station of the German military broadcasti ...

''.

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. *''The Secret History of PWE - Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945'', (St Ermin''s Press, 2002), David Garnett.

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'Daily monitoring reports of Gustav Siegfried Eins by US Federal Broadcast Intelligence Service'

'GS1: Object, method and effect'
An official Political Warfare Executive report on Gustav Siegfried Eins, reproduced by the Sefton Delmer Archive.
Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630131449/http://www.psywar.org/cripps.php , date=30 June 2007 An article about the scandalous nature of Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcasts and the complaint by British Labour politician

Sir Stafford Cripps Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer by background, he first entered Parliament at a by-election in 1931, and was one of a handful of L ...

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Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany
Extensively illustrated paper describing the Allied effort in World War II to undermine Germany through unidentified or misidentified radio broadcasts. Black propaganda organisations British propaganda organisations Foreign Office during World War II History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom Military history of Buckinghamshire Radio during World War II Radio stations in Buckinghamshire

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