Operation Details

Durham

'Durham' was a British special forces undertaking by the Special Operations Executive to create and disseminate 'black' propaganda to the German forces in Norway (March/November 1944).

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Led by Eric Gjems-Onstad in the Trondheim area, the undertaking soon had more than 100 local volunteers including Magnes Nordnes, an ex-school teacher who recruited many of his ex-pupils to create a network that spread propaganda and misinformation provided from London, and also created a fictitious anti-Nazi German party, the Deutsche Freiheitspartei (German freedom party), whose 'newspaper' the Nordnes network distributed among the total of more than 500,000 items it successfully circulated.

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During its existence to November 1944, 'Durham' lost 15 distributors who were arrested and another 20 who had to flee to Sweden.

Basic Overview

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