"Illness Saves" by Dr. Do Good
The black propaganda malingering campaign

ISBN 0-9542936-1-4

In 1942, Sefton Delmer, head of the German black propaganda section of the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE) devised the first disguised booklet to assist Germans to fake illness to get out of military service and compulsory factory work. As the war progressed PWE's forger, Ellic Howe, produced the malingerers booklets in a variety of different disguises, the most famous being called Krankheit rettet - Illness Saves by Doctor Do Good.

The booklet informed its reader how to simulate a multitude of different illnesses and diseases from a simple throat infection to tuberculosis.

Secret agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) covertly disseminated the subversive text across Europe and the Middle East, in fact anywhere German troops were stationed. Specially designed balloons from their base in Kent, England, also launched the malingering booklets off on their nefarious journey.

The Germans considered it such a dangerous piece of propaganda they reproduced parts of the text in English as leaflets and dropped them over Allied lines in Italy. Sefton Delmer thought that was the ultimate compliment for his team's work.

Now for the first time the complete text with contemporary illustrations and a preface by Lee Richards is available in English on CD-ROM.

As a bonus it also includes the English text of another of Sefton Delmer's famous black propaganda booklets, The NSV Heals... Bomb Shock. The CD will run on either a PC or Mac computer, the translations are in Adobe PDF format, the latest Adobe Reader, (PC version only), is included on the disk.

Price £10 / 13 Euros / $16 (US) plus shipping. To order your CD contact Lee Richards.

Payment must be either by PayPal (plus 4.5%), UK Bank cheque, or cash in GB Pounds, US dollars, or Euros.

Recommended system requirements:

Windows Intel® Pentium® processor Microsoft® Windows 98 Second Edition, or better 64MB of RAM (32MB minimum) 60MB of available hard-disk space Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, 6.0, or 6.1 Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher (required)

Macintosh PowerPC® G3 processor Mac OS X v.10.2.2-10.3 64MB of RAM with virtual memory on (32MB minimum) 70MB of available hard-disk space Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher (required)

 

©1997-2008 All articles are the copyright of Lee Richards and cannot be reproduced without permission. Crown Copyright material reproduced with the permission of Her Majesty's Stationary Office.

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