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Radios and speaker
The "broadcast game"
Broadcast history
Equipment advertising (1932-1940)
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Listen to:
Hallo, hallo, hier Radio !
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Wood case with root wood veneer and bakelite buttons (early 30s)
(*) I think the Austrians didn't consider the meaning of the word in English ! |
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Wood case with fretwork (early 30s) |
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("Own structure ", as usually in this time. The electrical equipment could be ordered, the rest was self made). (mid 30s) |
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also "own structure" (1930s) |
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The first German "peoples receiver" of 1933 Bakelite case (the name ""301" is a hidden allusion for the date of the seizure of power for the Nazionalsozialisten, the 30th of January, 1933.) The relatively new medium broadcast could be used excellently for propaganda purposes. Therefore every "national comrade" should come to the pleasure of an own receiver. These cheap equipments could be found in many German households. |
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(in German):
Voice: "Attention - There are no enemy bomber over the Reich." |
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(late 30s) |
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Case: wood and bakelit (1940s) |
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Streamlined bakelite case (early 50s) |
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about 1936 |
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Listen to Johannes Heesters:
Mein Herz müßte ein Rundfunksender
sein
(If my heart could be a radio transmitter)
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of the Reichspost (German mail service) in Berlin in 1923 the official
history of the broadcast in Germany started . The broadcast developed into
mass media quite soon. The self making of equipments was usual in the time
of the beginning radio fever for which the industry provided radio kits.
The commercial sale of valve receivers started first in the middle of the
twenties. The engineering became more polished and the equipments got more
comfortably within the 30s. The power supply unit gained acceptance, receiver
and loudspeaker were partly put in a common case. There already was a short
wave reception, decline compensation, new dial drives and scale styling
and in the middle of the thirties a fine tuning control for the "magical
eye" .
After the seizure of power in 1933 the national socialists took advantage of the broadcast to the heavy distribution of her propaganda. To this the radio transmitter combined to one Reichssender (empire transmitter) and her programs were taken ideologically to the "right line". To reach as many population layers as possible, so-called "community products" were developed by all manufacturers in the same way to produce the "Volksempaenger VE 301" which was offered at reasonable prices. The types 301W (alternating current in bakelite case) and 301G (direct current in wood case) both for 65,- RM (Reichs-Mark) and the B model (battery operation in wood case) for 76,- RM (always including the tubes). Installment payment was possible. The storekeeper provided a VE (Volks-Empfaenger) moneybox for this. Due to his propaganda effectiveness the broadcast became an essential instrument which should support the military warfare during war. Special foreign countries programs had the task of weakening the "moral and willpower of the enemy population". On the other hand they tried to motivate the own population and keep the soldiers in a good mood. With the start of war the reception of foreign transmitters had been forbidden by the national socialists because they also sent German-speaking propaganda over to the Reich. Because of the always more clearly untrue reports of the national socialist the informations of the foreign transmitters became more attractive. Despite death penalty they were often heard. Listen to "Tran" und "Helle":
After the war the reconstruction of the German broadcast started under allied control. In 1949 the broadcast came back under German administration again. |
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