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Date of ingest: 18 March 2024

Description: Track 1: 00:00-03:54 Concerns principles on which founding of German Service was based. Discuss whether the reporting of news was always truthful and about need to maintain belief in the BBC. HCG reported that only time the news was exaggerated was following 20th June plot. Track 2: 03:55-04:50 HCG discusses German Service in the context of wider journalistic principles. Track 3: 04:50-07:18 Discussion of role of German Service. Other European Services BBC Service played a strategic role in relation to winning the war, but German Service role was not strategic in the same way. However it did help to build trust of German population in England and English things, which greatly helped during years of occupation.