[Milsurplus] Surrender of home radios, Norway WWII

[Hubert Miller]

I was looking thru some old Radio Bygones magazines ( U.K. ) which I had kept from my subscription many years back.
The Issue No. 55 from Nov. 1998 has an article on radio receivers built secretly by the Norwegian resistance organization
MILORG during the German occupation. From September 1941 all radios in Norway not owned by Nazi party members
were required to be turned in. At the same time, oddly enough, Norwegian manufacturers, the article says, were permitted
to build radios, to be put into storage, to be sold after the war. I am supposing this allowance was terminated by 1943, when
things were turning grim for the Reich. Also one radio manufacturer was required to refurbish the confiscated to prepare
them for shipment to Germany ( "Raubstaat Deutschland", to turn around the Reich's own propaganda epithet. )  I had
never known about the importation by Germany of plundered radios, but it shouldn't surprise me. I wonder if any of these
home radios of unusual manufacturer name are still seen today in Germany by antique radio collectors.
I once saw a photo of the surrender of civilian home radios in some eastern country, maybe Yugoslavia or Greece. The photo
if I recall had a cute caption, like "Rundfunkempfaengerabgebung",  "surrender of radio receivers". I came to late to the sale
to buy the photo, and somehow forgot even to copy it. That had to be a very rare photo indeed.

The R.B. back issues are available as individual PDFs but - the price is U.K. L 2.50 each issue date. Reckon this times 163 issues
and you have an uninviting prospect, plus the fact that no issues content index is provided either.
-Hubert Miller
Newport, Oregon, U.S.A.
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