Redgrave spoke words written by RC Sherriff, whose screenplay depicted Wallis as meek yet determined, neither downcast by snags and disappointments nor resentful of others’ scepticism. Audiences took to Michael Redgrave’s portrayal of Wallis as a softly-spoken, slightly abstracted genius. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)įull details of how Upkeep worked were not released until 1962, but the fact that it bounced across water became known in 1955 when cinemagoers were given first glimpses of Wallis’s weapons in Michael Anderson’s film The Dam Busters. What they saw could not be reconciled with official claims that the attacking force had been “weak”and that the dams had merely been “damaged”and, when anxious relatives rang them, a narrative of widespread damage soon circulated throughout Germany.īarnes Wallis (left) with British actor Michael Redgrave who plays Wallis in the 1955 film 'The Dam Busters'. This was partly because of the very large numbers of people who witnessed the damage first-hand. Stories multiplied within hours and, for a time, the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin was uncertain how best to react to them. In fact, no help was needed in generating rumours in Germany. One of these claimed that drinking water had been contaminated, leading to the spread of typhoid and intestinal diseases. Some of the stories sprang from rumours planted by the Allies in the hope that they would demoralise Germany’s home front. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) The breach of this dam and the Eder dam across the watershed in Hesse resulted in many lost lives. The breached Möhne dam, following the raid by 617 Squadron in May 1943.
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