Swirling Ink
Sefton Delmer Shaving. Mixing to and from Hitler rally in Delmer's mind.
NARRATOR:
DURING WORLD WAR II, ONE MAN WAGED A SECRET AND SINISTER WAR ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. HIS NAME WAS SEFTON DELMER.
Quote:
He was king of the Nasty.
NARRATOR:
HE'D WITNESSED GERMANY UNLEASH A NEW WEAPON - SEX PROPAGANDA. AND VOLUNTEERED TO BEAT THE NAZIS AT THEIR OWN GAME. HE RAN A SHADOWY DEPARTMENT TO PRINT AND BROADCAST PORNOGRAPHY. HE SPREAD FANTASIES OF RAPE, PERVERSION, AND SEX TO CREATE DIVISIONS AMONG THE GERMANS AND SHATTER ENEMY MORALE. TO BEAT TYRANNY, SEFTON DELMER BUILT BRITAIN A STATE APPARATUS DEVOTED TO LIES, SMEARS AND TRICKERY - BUT HE PAID A TERRIBLE PERSONAL PRICE.
Swirling Ink mix to title
Sex Bomb Title.
Images of German's massed on Maginot line.
NARRATOR:
AT THE START OF WORLD WAR II, THE GERMAN ARMY UNLEASHED: SEX PROPAGANDA. IN A CAMPAIGN ALL BUT WRITTEN OUT OF THE HISTORY BOOKS, BRITISH TROOPS WERE SUBJECT TO A MULTI-MEDIA ASSAULT OF SEXUAL SMEARS. GERMAN PROPAGANDA MINISTER JOSEF GOEBBEL'S HAD COME UP WITH A RUSE TO SPLIT THE BRITISH FROM THEIR FRENCH ALLIES. HE DECIDED TO STIR UP SEXUAL JEALOUSY BETWEEN THEM. IN 1940 ILLUSTRATED LEAFLETS WERE FLOATED OVER THE MAGINOT LINE FOR THE FRENCH TO READ.
Tommy Leaflets.
Archive Footage: Germans sending leaflets by balloon.
Dr Ortwin Buchbender:
While the basic message was quite simple: The poor Frenchman in his trenches is fighting against the German and the English are drinking Champagne with our women. Quite easy
Herb Friedman:
And the whole concept was to convince the French that while they were fighting and dying at the front, the British were having sex with their women.
Archive Footage:
French soldiers on Maginot Line.
Archive Voice Over:
What is happening to your wives back home, soldiers? The British are staying in your villages.
Archive Footage: Where's Tommy? The leaflets.