[Milsurplus] Odd Wehrmacht earphone

Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:18:35 -0700

perhaps a earphone for hearing impaired Nazis?
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hue Miller" <[email protected]>
To: "milsurplus" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:06 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Odd Wehrmacht earphone

> I found this odd (at least, new to me) type of 
> German WW2 earphone and cannot guess 
> what it was for.
> 
> It's about 1" diameter by 1/2" deep to the earphone
> part. It does not have a headband, it has a behind-
> the-ear wire quite like later early transistor radio
> and portable tape recorder earpieces. The cord is
> terminated in the usual German 2-banana type plug.
> The earpiece back has the word IDEAL. Sounds 
> like something that would have been supplied
> with a Superex kit or maybe even an early Zenith
> transistor radio - but it has a tiny Waffenamt 
> eagle, acceptance stamp, the kind with swastika
> carried by the eagle. I do not have a guess for what
> it was for. Not spy radio, those used standard 
> headphones. Unless, really wild guess, it was for
> one of those hidden-in-the-clothing DF receivers
> for tracking down spy transmitters. But that's 
> really my guess and a wild one.
> Input?
> Tnx, Hue Miller
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