[Milsurplus] Surrender of home radios, Norway WWII

[Wammes Witkop]

Hi Hubert,

I have seen photo's of radios being gathered in the Second World War, in 
the Netherlands. But I cannot find them on Google. However, if you 
google "radio inleveren tweede wereldoorlog" - Dutch language - and look 
for the available pictures, you will find relevant material. I suppose 
that this will be the case for all occupied countries, one has to 
formulate the search in the right language because the websites offering 
this information will not be in English, but in the local language.

Of course, results from Google might differ for other people, as we each 
are olaced in our personal and national bubbles...

Grtz, Wammes

Op 15-4-2019 om 09:28 schreef 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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