The soldier transmitter Calais was a British propaganda transmitter during the Second World War.

Studios were in Milton Bryan. The transmitter was with 600 KW of power output the strongest medium-wave transmitter in Europe and only for the purpose had been furnished at that time, in order to get aimed with strewn half truths, influence on the psyche of the Germans. It would send 360, 420 and 490 meters on the wavelengths.

The first transmission went on 24 October 1943 over the ether, the latter on 14 April 1945. The transmission leader was a British journalist Denis Sefton Delmer. Its staff consisted from international journalists, psychologists, of German emigrants and former prisoners of war.

The method of the spreading of lies and half truths was a thought out system, one called it at that time also "black propaganda ", because it differed fundamentally from "white propaganda "by the fact that truths were mixed with falsifications, all to attain larger reliability. Thus for example the person Hitler was never attacked in comments and messages the current happening, but made responsible in each case its environment for "bad states ". Success was enormous. Long time was regarded the transmitter as a German armed forces transmitter. The population gave large attention to his messages.

The winged word "if that the leader would know"Â… "is to the soldier transmitter Calais to be due.

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