Toward the end of the Second World War, as the Allies continued to advance into Germany and bombers continued to bombard Germany, there was an unusual chaos in the major German cities: crowds of people crowded at some important military railway stations, docks, airports, and highways. Civilians mingled with the Nazi army, making it difficult for already desperate troops to make normal dispatches. At this time, there was a strange phenomenon in the official German radio: the broadcaster said for a moment, "Citizens, please do not crowd these stations and docks to cause difficulties for our army." But a moment later, Another announcer was heard say, "The broadcast just now is purely an enemy rumor!" The government is arranging for you to evacuate from these stations and docks. Now what you are hearing is the real official voice. "And so on. This rebellious broadcast undoubtedly contributed to this chaos. Or rather, it is precisely because of this latter kind of persuasive radio broadcast that seems to be cut to the point that this confusion has been created. But what is all this all about?
It turned out that this was a ghost tricked by the British intelligence services!
As early as the outbreak of the war, British intelligence had carefully planned a picture set: they set up a radio station and dressed it up like a German radio station. From time to time, the radio broadcast some distracting news and programs to create illusions and confusion in Hitler's Nazi Germany. They called the operation "Dark Arrow" and was directly commanded by journalist-turned-secret agent Sefort Delman. Delman spoke fluent German, studied German questions, and was an old-time agent. He was forty years away, short, and did not give a shrewd appearance, in fact, a beautiful news battle in World War II was fought under his direct command. In the autumn of 1940, Delman was recalled from Lisbon to London by the Intelligence Service, thus kicking off a news war code-named "Dark Arrow".
I. Grinding the "Dark Arrow"
In September 1940, in a small, humble café in London, Delman sat face to face with England, the head of the Intelligence Service.
"Let you organize and direct an underground radio station, how do you see it?" England sipped his coffee and asked slowly.
Delman did not answer immediately. England went on to say that the station would broadcast to Germany in particularly shortwave in the UK, but to give the illusion that it was based in Germany. It is an unofficial broadcast, and it is necessary to play the role of B· B· C (BBC) and V· O· A (Voice of America) broadcasting to Germany can not play a role. "You're going to have all the editorial and broadcasting powers for this station, and I'm not going to give you any restrictions. What do you think? This is a great opportunity to use your talents. "It seems pretty good," del Mann replied calmly, in fact he was excited. It's a job that suits me perfectly," Delman thought. Born in Berlin, he could speak a German language that was no different from that of the Germans. During the five years from 1928 to 1933, he met many senior Nazi officials, including Hitler, as a berlin-based journalist. Later, he worked in Lisbon as a refugee, and became acquainted with many Jews who had fled germany, from whom he learned about many general officials of the Nazi Party, as well as many popular German languages and wartime "fashionable" words. All this will undoubtedly be of great benefit to his work.
After accepting the task, Delman plunged into a temporary secret office and began to actively prepare for the establishment of the platform. A few days later, when he met england again, he already had a more mature work plan. He told England that the radio stations we already had against Germany were in a direct anti-Nazi form: calling on the people to rise up against Hitler, cursing Churchill, and pretending to be propaganda for Germany. "We have to broadcast in exactly the same tone as the Germans, in all B. B· C & V· O· A Where we say "you Germans", we have changed them to "We Germans", so that we can quietly cram something that is demagogic and confusing into a seemingly patriotic cliché. ”
"It seems that I did not choose the wrong person," England was obviously pleased, "then we should find a code name for this operation." Let's call it "Dark Arrow!". I thought about it too. Delman was a bit proud.
An elaborately sharpened "dark arrow" was fired. However, none of them expected that the fake radio station would achieve unprecedented success, so powerful that the national radio station controlled by Goebbels would be devastated.
Second, the initial broadcast
At 2:30 p.m. on May 23, 1940, a large black sedan took all the members of the "Dark Arrow" radio group to the secret recording and broadcasting room, and thus began their short-wave broadcast to Germany with the call sign of "Georg Sug First".
Among the members of the radio crew was a Berliner named Paul Sander. Originally a writer who fled to England in 1938 for his anti-Nazi campaign, Delman put him in an important role on the radio – an old-fashioned Prussian officer code-named "Boss" (Hitler's followers liked to call Hitler "Boss", so Sander's code name was somewhat ironic).
In the studio, Sander sat in front of a microphone and said in loud German: This is The first "call" of Georg Suger to "Sigefit" (God knows what this "Siegfit 18" means) and then the "boss" uses a code to talk to a non-existent military organization - one by one in order to make the German listener mistakenly think that he has overheard some secret. Then, in a very decipherable code, the two delegates were discussing an action in a theater (there are countless theaters in Germany, and Delmann believes that this news is enough for the Gestapo eagle dogs toss). Immediately afterward, the "boss" answered a number of questions about the news broadcast from the "last time" (again, of course, this is nonsense!). The newly opened radio station was "last time", but the eavesdroppers of the Nazi Security Gang were bound to be surprised by this.)
At the end of this set of programs, the "boss" commented on the recent developments of the war in blunt and harsh terms. He boasted of his loyalty to Hitler, but not without sarcasm, that the country was being messed up by a ragtag bunch of hitler-named people. Most interestingly, he also proposed a miscarriage flight from Germany to Scotland at the time. Hans, who carried out this task, was actually Hitler's agent, but the "boss" was fiercely "debunked" in the broadcast, saying that Hitler had not authorized the scoundrel. He said that This Hans must have been a hysterical man, and when he learned a little about the disadvantages of the war, he wrapped himself in a white flag and plunged headlong into the arms of Churchill, the drunkard who smoked cigars all day and had a flat foot.
The most brilliant of the shows that Sander hosts is this one: This is too much like a German radio station! It is impossible for a British radio station to scold their prime minister in such exaggerated, fierce terms. Delman was proud of his invention.
The first broadcast was undoubtedly a success. Although the Gestapo would soon be able to detect that the radio was from England with their radio test equipment, they would still listen to the station with great interest, and the German citizens, who generally did not know the truth, would listen to it with great interest.
Erman then did two things, on the one hand, to enrich the radio with sophisticated agents, as well as anti-Nazi Germans who fled to England before the war (including politicians, actors, journalists, etc.); on the other hand, to collect a wide range of valuable information, Delman organized several people, searched almost all the newspapers, magazines, advertisements, etc. published in Germany, and even some small advertisements for weddings and funerals, and after a period of work, they were able to do it If the radio needed to mention the name of a train driver living in Cassanel or a grocery store in Hansey Berlin, their files would immediately provide it all.
Another source of information for the radio group was the growing number of German prisoners of war. The prisoners, who chatted and grumbled freely in the shelter, but did not expect to have wiretaps on the walls and even in the trees in the garden, provided the freshest language for the "bosses" to report on military matters. Funny enough, Delman's colleague- The Second, overhears a new PRISONER of War happily telling a story to his partner, which is actually from the broadcast of the "boss" in "GeorgeSug First"!
To avoid suspicion, Dark Arrow radio broadcasts never mentioned senior Nazi officials, but mid-level officials such as town chiefs and district chiefs were often drawn in. In one broadcast, the "boss" named and accused the wife of a Nazi Party official of rushing to a cloth shop to buy clothes. The "boss" said it was a serious leak because the official told his wife that Germany's supplies were about to run out. Two weeks later, Delman read from the German newspapers: almost all German stores were snapped up!
But Delman, however, had not imagined another "dangerous" misunderstanding arising from the successful broadcast of the "boss"; the American correspondent in Berlin told Washington that the Germans were listening to a radio code-named "boss", that he was an unknown German officer, who had some degree of resistance to the Nazi practices, and so on. This report undoubtedly gave Britain's allies the illusion that there was a de facto crack in Germany, and that if you wait patiently, you would see the defection of Hitler's army. This was terrible, and England immediately told Roosevelt the truth about the fake radio station—but only roosevelt could tell that Roosevelt could not help but laugh when he received the report from England.
At the end of 1942, the British Admiralty approached Delman and asked him to find a way to shake the morale of the German naval officers and men. At this time, Delman's line of work is really easy, and the new task is undoubtedly the time to show his talents. He swung his wings full of ambition to open up new battlefields.
3. Friends of the sailors
The first thing Delman did after being commissioned by the Admiralty was to update all radio equipment and relocate the Dark Arrow radio group to Milton, Bedfordshire. Blane (later he took the first letter M of this place) B. called his work building "MB Building"). The 12-foot-high power grid is around the "MB Building", and a team of soldiers guards it day and night. The additional naval station was called "Radio Atlantic", and the members of the station were supplemented as needed, including historians from Oxford University, experts on the German economy, and naval and military experts, who were called "living encyclopedias". Among the announcers, a young woman named Rika was added. The daughter of a berliner, she was born with a sweet voice and hosted the show "Sailor's Girlfriend" on the new "Atlantic Radio". She constantly broadcast programs such as "Happy Birthday" and "Congratulations to The Noble Son" to the "Dear Sailor Brothers", and often talked to the sailors about how to deal with his wife, family affairs, etc. (most of the details of these programs were obtained from letters received and sent by prisoners of war). Rika has shown extraordinary talent in this regard. However, no one could tell from her tender and sweet voice that the rest of her family had died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
A Hamburger named Edes was once a telegraph operator on a submarine, and when he surrendered, he brought a latest codebook, he knew many naval officers and men, and his brain was also smart. When he broadcast a program and instigated naval officers and men to do some small damage to delay the ship schedule and how to try to save themselves in war, he was often more knowledgeable than the naval experts in the "M.B building."
News is an important part of the daily broadcast of this naval station. For them, carefully broadcasting carefully selected news to the Germans was a powerful weapon to dismantle the enemy, for example, in the news reports about the air raids on Germany, they did a very good job, the Allied planes had just left the Garden for a few minutes, and the British intelligence agencies told the details to the "M.B Building" through a closed-circuit telephone, and the details immediately became news. What attracted the German audience most was the follow-up to a series of bombed shops, buildings, and streets with detailed names, provided by photographs taken by reconnaissance planes. As soon as the reconnaissance plane returned, the enlarged photograph was immediately sent by motorcycle to the "M·B Building." Soon, the report of the air raid situation became the exclusive play of the Navy Station.
Of course, the Navy Station was not satisfied with this, and it constantly encouraged the German sailors to go home to visit their relatives and see if their relatives were harmed, and this agitation was done by Rika, and there was no more appropriate than a woman's voice, often more seductive than a man's, not to mention that she said it so sincerely and sincerely: from a humanitarian point of view, your superiors will give you a holiday to visit your relatives. Who has no wife and children? Who has no parents? Go home and watch! Your homes are in ruins. In the end, she did not forget to add that you do not have to return to the team after you return home to visit your relatives, because it is difficult for the authorities to find out whether you are constantly looking for evacuated family members or have lost your life in another air raid.
On the basis of the success of the naval station, Delman was entrusted to add broadcasts to the officers and men of the air force and army, and the results were satisfactory. Once, a friend of Delman's who worked in a prisoner of war camp said to him: The prisoners of war are very impressed by your broadcasts and often talk about the news they have heard from you. When we told the prisoners of war that this was a radio station we controlled, they couldn't help but be amazed, so when the prisoners were interrogated again, they gave everything they knew. The prisoner of war said, "You know everything, but what are we hiding?" Del's friend said, "Your broadcast has suddenly solved the weeks we used to have. A problem that takes months to resolve. Delman smiled slightly, "Thanks, but you'd better say this to England, I might be able to get promoted sooner and not have to be bored in the dark house." ”
Fourth, bomb chocolate
Before the war, in order to strengthen Germany's external influence, Goebbels set up radio news fax receiving stations in several countries to bring the German D. N· B Official news reached the countries as soon as possible. When war broke out, a fax station in London was too late to be evacuated, and it was used by Delman's radio crew. They were able to receive important news every day, as they did on any other German radio station, and after some rapid and bold processing (in this respect, they were superior to other radio stations controlled by Goebbels, and did not need to act on Goebbels's eyes), they were often able to broadcast it at a much faster speed than the German station. Naturally, some news can play a disturbing role after being cut and processed by these experts. For example, Goebbels's radio announcement that in order to encourage workers who had fled during the air raids to return to the factories to produce, the government would supply chocolate for free on behalf of these factories. Delman's radio immediately added that these "bombing chocolates" were equipped with stimulants and that people would work tirelessly after eating them; when the residents of Hamburg evacuated to the prescribed points according to the government's plan, "GeorgesUg First" rang out again: "The medical officers at the evacuation points are very appreciative of this selfless spirit of the citizens, because these evacuation points are still prevalent with diphtheria!" ”
Not only was Goebbels's news borrowed, but he himself and even Hitler were invited to the "MB Building", where whenever Goebbels or Hitler spoke on the radio, they recorded it and broadcast it from their own fake radio. At the time of broadcasting, they also added some whistles and laughter to the "M.B Building", falsely claiming that they were recorded from the scene.
Delman's cleverness in exploiting Goebbels DNB was that he sometimes put some thoughtful, well-detailed news on the German radio a few minutes later. In this way, the same news broadcast by the German government became dry, and the rich and accurate news of the "M•B Building" greatly increased the interest. When the Allies captured Normandy in 1944, Delman sent his assistant Macclella to the Allied headquarters the day before the operation. From time to time, the decisions of the leaders were passed on to the "M.B Building" through him, and the general outline of the news was already outlined. The next day, after the expected battle began, as soon as the DNB sent a message, they followed up with their own reports—more detailed and fast than any other German radio station—at least twelve hours faster. This both amazed the German audience and convinced them that it was a nationally controlled radio station. The battle was constantly evolving, and McClella's new news kept coming, which made "George Soug First" and "Atlantic Radio" have a speed and correctness that others could not match. Many German commanders simply marked the map based on information provided by radio stations such as the Atlantic. However, at this point they were deceived! When Delman knew that his radio was fully trusted, he began to cram into battlefield news that could lead people astray. In his words, only one fake message is sandwiched between every hundred messages, and the other ninety-nine absolutely correct messages are in the service of this one. A battalion of German soldiers drove into an area they thought was still under their control, only to be eaten by the Allies.
As the work progressed, Dark Arrow radio expanded its focus to Hitler's satellite state. Their editorial staff and announcers gradually included people from Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and even Romania. Delman is ambitious and appears to be building a tower of babel.
At the time of the fall of Mussolini's regime, Delman set up a "resistance radio" at the request of the Admiralty, which was in the cabin of a warship in livorno Bay, Italy. Every night, the "resistance to electricity" kept calling out to the naval ships moored in Spezia, Genoa, and northern Italy, warning them that the Germans might forcibly board the ships and hijack them, and asking them to be ready for self-defense. When the Germans did take action in this regard, Resistance Radio added that they were currently negotiating with the Allies to try to liberate the Italian Navy from the Germans. Finally, in July 1943, the "Radio resistance" gave all the Italian warships an order to sail to Malta, one by one, to the meeting place agreed with the Allies. Male, many Italian ships obediently set sail, and by the time Mar it surrendered to the Allied representative, General Eisenhower.
At the same time, they have also developed radio stations that broadcast the countries of the Balkan region. The fake Romanian station was designed to disrupt the German oil supply line in Romania. It constantly raises the slogan: Don't let the Germans rob us of our precious resources! Day after day, they tirelessly instigate the Romanians how to sabotage oil drilling, how to spoil the oil produced, and so on. The other was made to Bulgarian, which seemed to be controlled by Goebbels, and in order to pretend to be like that, Delman hired two German Jews who spoke Bulgarian to broadcast it. This kind of fake adulteration made the German officers and soldiers staying in Sofia (the capital of Bao) uneasy.
Fifth, the final blow
Unexpectedly, near the end of the war, Winston Churchill would intervene directly in Delman's radio crew, so that the "black radio" could give the Nazis a powerful blow at the end. In 1945, when the Allies launched a major offensive against Germany, B. B· C, and V· O· A and other public radio stations broadcast to Germany required German citizens to stay where they were and not to move, so as not to be injured by mistake. This propaganda was carried out according to the instructions of the League Command, but Churchill was greatly annoyed when he heard it; "What are you talking about?!" The old man growled, "You should not tell them not to move, but try to squeeze them onto the highway to stop the German movements, just as the French citizens brought chaos to the French army in 1940." ”
The Allied leaders listened, looked at each other, and the words were good, but B•B•C and V•O· A obviously can't take back the request that was said, and just when the policymakers were in a dilemma, England stood up and said: It doesn't matter, I have sharpened a "dark arrow" and shot it again to solve the problem. So, in order to realize Churchill's vision, they found the staff of the "M.B Building" --- "irresponsible speech" and "scoundrels who went to do 'dirty work'".
Fortunately, del Mann's Dark Arrow radio crew was all set, and radio experts in the M.B building believed that the best way to accomplish this task was to use Goebbels's broadcast network. Is this whimsical? At one point, due to the frequent bombardment of Allied aircraft at that time, the radio stations in the center of several cities that were the main targets of the bombing turned off the radio stations at the moment of bombing in order not to target the air raiders, thus creating a time vacuum in the frequencies used by these stations, so that the "M•B Building" could unknowingly insert one of its own ambushes next to the specially designed medium-wave frequency. How could a German audience have imagined that a great English wolf would sneak into his bed in Goebbels' pajamas and make love to him?
They first decided to try out radio stations in Cologne. The eavesdropper is constantly monitoring it, patiently seizing opportunities that can be exploited. On the night the trick first began, Delman waited anxiously in his office for news. At 9:15 a.m. it was scheduled that the two alternates would be scheduled, but by 9:20 the Cologne station was still working. He couldn't help but get anxious, so he called the studio. The answer was, "Didn't you hear that?" We've been working for five minutes! "It was seamless! He deceived Delman, and this made him happy.
The work proceeded smoothly, and the next day, the radio stations in Frankfurt, Leipzig, etc. were also interfered with, and in this way, many forged notices and emergency notices were broadcast through these authentic national stations; or to trick the residents into saying that there would be special trains and special boats at a certain station or wharf to a certain safe area, and that there would be free food, drink, and clothes on the platform (these mentioned stations, the docks are often military places): or fabricated that it is extremely unsafe to stay at home now, Residents can evacuate there (and there are always troops at the disposal of the mentioned places).
Soon, everything Churchill had hoped to happen had happened. Stations, docks, and highways were crowded with chaotic crowds, and Delman's "Dark Arrow" radio group almost deprived the German authorities of the right to use the radio to issue orders to the citizens, and when they were sobered up, they couldn't help but burst into the radio: "The enemy has used our frequency to issue many forged instructions, please do not believe it, and the announcer of the "M.B Building" is also clinging: "The enemy is using our frequency for counter-propaganda, please do not be deceived, what you hear now is the real official voice." ”
In this news war, Goebbels was completely defeated. The war was almost over, many German radio stations were closed, and the "M.B Building" was still working. At this point, they began to fire directly at Hitler, the number one enemy who had never been attacked by them! The wording was also careless: "The doctor is currently injecting Hitler with an injection that will turn him into a whimpering, dazed old fool." He added: "The enemy is hoping that we will be dominated by such an arrogant and arrogant fool." God bless him, let him die sooner! ”
With the fall of the Third Reich, Dark Arrow radio became speechless. At 5:59 a.m. on April 14, 1945, Delman received an order from England to shut down the radio.
A small farewell party was held in the "M·B Building", but the atmosphere was not very warm. Delman's German colleagues made great sacrifices to oppose Hitler: their homes were destroyed and their loved ones were killed. Although they all hoped for Hitler's early fall, when they learned that their homeland was being destroyed by powerful Allied artillery fire, they could not help but show a look of pain and sorrow. Rika, the girl who was extremely active on the radio, looked at the banquet with tears in her eyes.
The banquet took place in this mixed atmosphere: both the excitement of the victory and the silent mourning of the victims of the war. However, Delman and his colleagues were not without pride in what they had done in this war, and they did not hesitate to lie and deceive, and this righteous act, which made a special contribution to hastening the fall of Hitler, was precisely a very kind of fighting method taught them in extraordinary times!
v [Beauty] by Fofferton Del Mar