British Broadcasting and the Danish Resistance Movement 1940–1945
A Study of the Wartime Broadcasts of the B.B.C. Danish Service

This incisive study traces the history and the impact of the British Broadcasting Corporation's wartime broadcasts to Denmark.

Jeremy Bennett (Author)

9780521158442, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 November 2010

288 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.37 kg

First published in 1966, twenty-one years after the close of the Second World War, this incisive study traces the history and the impact of the British Broadcasting Corporation's wartime broadcasts to Denmark. The BBC's European Service played a crucial role in relaying information to the occupied countries of Europe during the war, and the Danish Service was a particularly effective example. With a perspicacity possible only in retrospect, Mr Bennett uncovers the relationship between the stance taken by the BBC and the sometimes dramatic effects of the broadcasts in Denmark, particularly upon the Danish Resistance.

List of plates
Foreword Alan Bullock
Foreword Jørgen Hæstrup
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. The first broadcast
2. Denmark seen from London
3. The Organization of the British Propaganda Departments
4. Policy 1941
5. Christmas Møller in London
6. A temporary halt
7. The BBC and the Danish Crisis of October 1942
8. January–April 1943
9. The election of March 1943
10. The BBC encourages action in Denmark
11. The eyes of the world are on Denmark
12. The Freedom Council and the question of Allied recognition
13. Intelligence and news material
14. Criticism of the BBC
15. The BBC and military operations
16. Black propaganda
17. Radio and resistance
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]