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Political Warfare Executive: French airborne leaflets (1943)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1383

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Political Warfare Executive: French airborne leaflets (1943)

Date(s): 1943

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Political Warfare Executive

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Arranged as in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
French history | European history | National history
Occupied territories | Humanitarian law
War | International conflicts
War propaganda | Propaganda | Persuasion | Communication process
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names
Political Warfare Executive

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