Ceftin delmer biography definition

Denis Sefton Delmer was born in Berlin, Germany, on 24th May 1904.

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He is best known as a black propagandist for the British government's Political Warfare Executive during the 1939-45 war.

Early life

His father, Frederick Delmer, was an Australian lecturer in English at Berlin University and on the outbreak of the First World War was interned as an enemy alien. In 1917 Delmer and his family were allowed to go to England.

Delmer was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class degree in German.

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After leaving university he worked as a freelance journalist until being recruited by the Daily Express to become head of its new Berlin Bureau. While in Germany he became friendly with Ernst Roehm and he arranged for him to become the first British journalist to interview Adolf Hitler.

In the 1932 general election Delmer travelled with Hitler on his private aircraft.

He was also with Hitler when he inspected the Reichstag Fire. During this period