[Milsurplus] Funk-Abhoer-Berichte Feb 26 1944

[Hubert Miller]

Thinning out my papers and packing up for another move, i come across many
interesting things. I was just looking at a German publication,

"Funk-Abhoer-Berichte Sonderband L  U.S.A.  26 Februar 1944".   This is a
'Geheim!'  ( classified SECRET ) summary of official radio broadcast news

themes from Reich, USSR, U.K. and Empire, and U.S.A. - via shortwave, for
the foreign stations, and summarizing broadcasts in all the languages

broadcast from those senders. The paper it is printed on is, oddly,
perforated in approx 5 x 7 cm blocks, and  i would have to guess this is to 

facilitate manual shredding of the publication after its study. The pages
are marked with warnings not to pass on to unauthorized persons.

Of course, for any non-authorized German citizen, listening to foreign
stations was a crime punishable by 12 months - and up - in prison. 

I found the honest rendering of the foreign broadcast news interesting. For
example, the Voice of America's news broadcast quoted neutral

Swiss newspapers saying Germany could not recover land lost on the Eastern
Front, and that Germany had never and could not win a two-front

war. I wonder how the German propagandists studying this publication could
spin that. 

The website " americanradiohistory.com  casts a wider net than its name
indicates and this publication may possibly eventually appear there

online. I gave the publisher a German early-WW2 radio broadcast schedule and
he said that the large format is a problem but that he would

take on the challenge of scanning it. 

via-

Hue Miller

Newport, Oregon 

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