Operation Annie - January 10, 1945

Recorded Sound | Digitized | RG Number: RG-91.0514

Overview

Description: TRACK 1
0:00: *music*
1:10: Introduction
1:37: headlines: evacuation of German troops behind the St. Hubert street. Slight soil gain of the Americans in the Bastogne area. Bombers above Rhineland, Ardennes and Saar. Bloody fights in the Maginot line at Elsass. German troops are pressuring Strasbourg from North and South.
2:00: Front news: The German evacuation movement on the North-West tip of the Ardennes between La Roche and Saint Hubert gained speed. The fights in the streets of La Roche are ongoing, but Saint Hubert remains under German control. Americans were only able to make small soil gain in the Bastogne area. Bloody fights are being reported from the Elsass part of the Maginot line. SS Gebirgsjaeger fought their way deep into the Hartwald. Near Hatten our troops made efforts to banish the Americans out of the Outposts of the Maginot Line. German troops held their bridgehead north of Strasbourg, they tried to infiltrate the American defense line. During good weather American North American bombers attacked cities of the Rhineland and our troops in the Ardennes and Saar area again.
3:07: Roehrfront: North of Monschau in the Roehr Area it came to outpost fights. German artillery and launchers attacked enemy posts. Northeast of Lammersdorf the Americans attacked outposts at Westwall and near the Roehrdams. The evacuated outposts were immediately taken over from neighboring outposts.
3:33: Defense fight in the Ardennes:

Note: Detailed transcription ends, reporting continues until 24:24 and TRACK 2 runs 12:59 in duration.
Date: 1945 January 10
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

Physical Details

Language: German
Genre/Form: Radio broadcasts. Propaganda.

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Copyright: Public Domain
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Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Propaganda, American. Radio broadcasting, American--Germany. Radio in propaganda--Germany. Radio, Military. World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda. Radio Broadcasting
Corporate Name: Radio Luxembourg Radio 1212

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: In Process
Recorded Sound Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired digital copies of Record Group 165: from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 2019.
Recorded Sound Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
File Number: Source Archive Number: RG-165-54 reel 1
Source Archive Number: RG-165-54 reel 2

Record last modified:: 2024-02-21 07:30:17
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Operation Annie (also known as "1212", the frequency on which it broadcasts) was a covert Allied "black propaganda" radio station which began broadcasting in late 1944 from a secret location in Luxembourg and purported to be pro-German, playing patriotic traditional German songs. Over a period of 127 broadcasts, the station built up a loyal following of both German civilians and soldiers. By early 1945, the Allied forces were advancing on Germany and, under instruction from General Dwight Eisenhower, the radio station began broadcasting false information about Allied positions and implied a major assault into Germany was under way. This had the intended effect of making German civilians flee from their homes, which in turn hampered the retreat of the German army. Source: http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Operation_Annie_(1946)

Date: 1944-1945

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