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With such slight Teutonic flavorings, some well-known U.S. radio techniques (disc jockeys, quiz shows, children's programs, folksy announcers) are being used by Berlin's station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). The blend has proved so palatable that in a recent poll 80% of Berlin's radio listeners voted for RIAS over the six competing Soviet-controlled stations...
Most of the Nazi-controlled European stations are hooked up with Grossdeutscher Rundfunk so that propaganda of the New Order can flow smoothly out of Berlin. Each week the Nazis spray Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium and Bulgaria with 187 network newscasts, 363 pep talks in German. To the rest of the world, in 31 other languages (including Arabic, Frisian, Gaelic and Esperanto) they air a weekly total of 1,266 news bulletins, 303 Goebbelsian reports...
...tuned to their home stations, caught the cultured enemy accents of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, coming over the same Nazi radio that frequently refers to him as British First Lord of the Sea Bottom. Before he had talked for long, listeners got the idea. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was up to a slick trick in the European radio war of harsh words. As Mr. Churchill's voice purred on, it was suddenly interrupted by a tremendous clamor of sound-effect boos & catcalls. Then the Nazi announcer spoke up. "This," he explained, "is the record...
Tabulated last week, the figures for the period from May 21 to July 1 showed that Berlin's Central Broadcasting Station of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (German Broadcasting Co.) put on the air 922 attacks on the Czechoslovak republic, 194 criticisms of President Eduard Benes or the Prague government, attacked Czechoslovak officials and law courts 172 times, insulted the honor of the Czechoslovak Army 106 times. Henlein party-propaganda broadcasts from German stations during the same period were clocked at 336, the declaration that Communists rule Czechoslovakia...
...population 1%. Jewish children were driven from public schools. In Bavaria, Baden, Thuringia, Württemberg, Hesse, the Nazis forbade kosher slaughtering of meat. The National Government forbade any Jew to leave Germany without special police permission stamped on his passport. Chief Engineer Walter Schaeffer of the Rundfunk Wireless Organization was dismissed from his post, committed suicide. Albert Einstein's bank deposits ($5,955 in securities, $1,191 in cash) were confiscated. The Professor announced that he would renounce his German citizenship...