Collection GB 1556 WL 1383 - Political Warfare Executive: French airborne leaflets (1943)

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GB 1556 WL 1383 1943 collection 1 file Political Warfare Executive

The Political Intelligence Department was established as a secret Foreign Office Department at the outbreak of the Second World War, and provided cover for the Political Warfare Executive, which was formed in August 1941 to undermine enemy morale and resistance by various forms of propaganda. It was constituted by an amalgamation of parts of the European sections of the BBC and of the Foreign Publicity Department of the Ministry of Information with Special Operations 1, part of the Special Operations Executive, which was subordinate to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Special Operations 1 had itself been preceded by Department EH, which had included a Department of Publicity in Enemy Countries responsible for propaganda by means of leaflets dropped from the air.

Jewish Central Information Office.

Papers of Political Warfare Executive, 1943, comprise two copies of the French 'Revue de la Presse Libre' No. 45 dropped during in the nights 4th and 5th April until 15th and 16th April 1943.

Arranged as in Scope and Content.

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

French

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

March 2008 Wars (events) Communication process European history French history Humanitarian law International conflicts National history Occupied territories Persuasion Political Warfare Executive Propaganda War War propaganda World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

Jewish Central Information Office.

Papers of Political Warfare Executive, 1943, comprise two copies of the French 'Revue de la Presse Libre' No. 45 dropped during in the nights 4th and 5th April until 15th and 16th April 1943.

Arranged as in Scope and Content.

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

• anglais

• latin

French

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais