EVERYTHING GOES
No Inhibitions In Nazi Radio
with false beards are arresting all who look at pretty lips, as they may be German spies who @re expert lip-readers!" This fantastic story of conditions in Britain was recently given out from Deutschlandssender, the German longwave radio. Here is another gem from the same station: "In Britain, fear of German ’planes is now terrific. One of the best proofs of this fear is that the Jews are having their hair bleached and their noses straightened." According to the same source: " Crowds of people in the early morning gather before the premises of London astrologers to gain information on England’s fate. Fortune tellers. are charging as much as £10 for a consultation." Similarly, stories of food shortage in Britain are also being gaily circulated 6 S COTLAND Yard men disguised
over the air by Germany, Unfortunately for the efforts of the enemy propaganda machine, however, its accounts do not always tally. A Zeesen broadcast to South Africa, for example, stated that food in Britain was becoming so ever-increasingly scarce . "that the well-known disinclination of the Englishman to join the Army is at last being overcome in the hope of at least getting a square meal." But while this was being put over to South Africa an entirely different picture was being radiated in German for Norway: "In the trial of a soldier for having slept when on duty as a sentry, the accused denied having slept and maintained that he was: so hungry that he could not stand up." A recent German broadcast solemnly announced to Yugoslavia that "the German nation does not wage war only for its existence but for the existence of European eulture generally?*
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 19
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284EVERYTHING GOES New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 19
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