Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Denis Sefton DELMER (1904-1979)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Denis Sefton Delmer, journalist and foreign correspondent, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the Caprice restaurant in London’s Mayfair.
Born in Germany of Australian parentage, Delmer began his career with the Daily Express as head of its new Berlin Bureau. He became the first British journalist to interview Adolf Hitler, and travelled with Hitler during the 1932 German general election.
Delmer covered various important stories in Europe during the 1930s including the Spanish Civil War and the invasion of Poland. During the Second World War he led a black propaganda campaign against Hitler by radio from England, and he was named in the Nazis' Black Book for immediate arrest after their invasion of England.
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