This compelling study of 1930s journalist Sefton Delmer reveals how he used ‘grotesque cabaret’ as propaganda to undermine the Germans’ faith in nazism – and how such methods could be used against today’s tyrants
In the summer of 1941, Germans twiddling the dial of their state-issued Volksempfänger radio sets seeking respite from endless propaganda heard a subversive but intriguing voice pulsing over the airwaves.