We weren’t flying bombers. It is fascist propaganda. H: But also, that first poster by Boccasile is great because there’s no text. The image is so impactful on its own.

Nazi propaganda legitimised cruelty, gave people an escape from personal responsibility, and allowed a strongman leader to solve things for them. The catch was you ended up acting in their interests.

Daily Express foreign correspondent Sefton Delmer (1904 - 1979), making a propaganda broadcast to Germany from the BBC, 1st November 1941. Delmer had been recruited in 1940 by the Special Operations ...