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NBBS
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NBBS was established on February 25, 1940 and aired radio programmes until April 1945.
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New British Broadcasting Service (NBBS) was a German black propaganda radio station run from the Concordia Offices in Berlin, Germany as part of the English language section of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG). NBBS claimed to be run by British citizens broadcasting from inside Britain. Programmes often attacked National Socialism and included anti-Semitic themes. In addition, programmes often impressed that a Fifth Column sympathetic to German interests was active in the United Kingdom.
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Black propaganda is a form of propaganda which is intended to give the impression that it was created by those it is supposed to discredit.
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Created by NM in 2019.
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Hilmes, Michele, and Jason. Loviglio. Radio Reader : Essays in the Cultural History of Radio. Routledge, 2002, p. 279.
History Matters. Department of History, University of Sheffield.