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According to Sefton Delmer, himself, Soldatensender Calais was a grey station and not really black. The reason being that Soldatensender never claimed to be a German run station, like the grey leaflet newspaper Nachrichten für die Truppe, it just existed and did not claim any patronage.
See Delmer's Black Boomerang, page 118, where he specifically states that Soldatensender is a grey station. Or see here: [1]
Dick, [Richard Crossman] lying there in his hospital ward, with phlebitis still creeping up his leg and threatening his heart, was all charm and enthusiasm. He had been listening to Calais as he lay in bed, he said, and it was the slickest thing ever.
"Of course," he insisted, "it is not 'black'." "No," I said, "it is something new. Donald and I call it 'grey'. It is between 'Black' and 'White'. No doubt many of our German listeners realise we can't really be German. Nevertheless they accept us gratefully, because we don't make that 'Boom, boom, boom' V-noise of the B.B.C. which betrays them to the Gestapo and because we sound like ordinary Germans, not a lot of emigres."
( Psywar 07:07, 18 April 2007 (UTC))
6. The effort of skill and organisation needed to maintain such a deception for any time is great. Slight mistakes in details and current language, careless handling, technical hitches will give away eventually a sustained programme or a series of leaflets. But it is possible to do covert, unofficial propaganda in which no serious attempt is made to maintain the pretence of "inside Germany’ though every effort is made to maintain a German approach to the news and comment, to maintain perfection of technique and the illusion of "being German" in the mind of the listener or reader. This type of propaganda has been christened "grey" and it is to the grey category that belong SOLDATENSENDER CALAIS and the daily newspaper for the troops [NACHRICHTEN]. Both are run by a unit responsible for genuine black output.
Psywar ( talk) 15:33, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
This book says that the station broadcast from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. [1]
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According to Sefton Delmer, himself, Soldatensender Calais was a grey station and not really black. The reason being that Soldatensender never claimed to be a German run station, like the grey leaflet newspaper Nachrichten für die Truppe, it just existed and did not claim any patronage.
See Delmer's Black Boomerang, page 118, where he specifically states that Soldatensender is a grey station. Or see here: [1]
Dick, [Richard Crossman] lying there in his hospital ward, with phlebitis still creeping up his leg and threatening his heart, was all charm and enthusiasm. He had been listening to Calais as he lay in bed, he said, and it was the slickest thing ever.
"Of course," he insisted, "it is not 'black'." "No," I said, "it is something new. Donald and I call it 'grey'. It is between 'Black' and 'White'. No doubt many of our German listeners realise we can't really be German. Nevertheless they accept us gratefully, because we don't make that 'Boom, boom, boom' V-noise of the B.B.C. which betrays them to the Gestapo and because we sound like ordinary Germans, not a lot of emigres."
( Psywar 07:07, 18 April 2007 (UTC))
6. The effort of skill and organisation needed to maintain such a deception for any time is great. Slight mistakes in details and current language, careless handling, technical hitches will give away eventually a sustained programme or a series of leaflets. But it is possible to do covert, unofficial propaganda in which no serious attempt is made to maintain the pretence of "inside Germany’ though every effort is made to maintain a German approach to the news and comment, to maintain perfection of technique and the illusion of "being German" in the mind of the listener or reader. This type of propaganda has been christened "grey" and it is to the grey category that belong SOLDATENSENDER CALAIS and the daily newspaper for the troops [NACHRICHTEN]. Both are run by a unit responsible for genuine black output.
Psywar ( talk) 15:33, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
This book says that the station broadcast from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. [1]