What Putin’s opponents can learn from the man who undermined the Nazi war effort from a British billiard room

Peter Pomerantsev onhow a wartime propagandist’s tactics could be deployed against the likes of the Russian president

Seeds of division: Sefton Delmer making a propaganda broadcast to Germany from the BBC in 1941. Photo: Getty

Kim Bielenberg

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of life in Nazi Germany must be aware of Josef Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s notorious propagandist and arch media manipulator.

Much less is known about Sefton Delmer, the man on the British side who led a propaganda war against the Nazis in World War II.