Operation Annie - undated

Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0599

(NARA RG-165-144) Possible test or defective recording not intended for separate broadcast. No date announced during report. Professor [inaudible] reports on American barbarism. Battle sounds, overlapping voices. Sound improves after 2:30. 3:50-end. Repetitions of "Trojan Horse" theme.

(NARA 165-145) No date announced during report. Counterpropaganda. Tank battles, railroad fire bombings described; locales named (upper Rhineland).

(NARA RG-165-146) No date announced in broadcast. Probably filler and not intended for separate broadcast.
0:00-1:35. "Trojan Horse" signature played in full.
1:45-3:10. "Porgy and Bess" (excerpts): "Bess You Is My Woman Now" (1940 recording featuring Todd Duncan) -- cuts off.
3:14-end. "Trojan Horse" theme played in full.

(NARA RG-165-147) Music only. No date annouced during broadcast. Probable "filler" not intended for separate broadcast.
0:00-7:00. Unidentifed German-hymn-type theme, played six times (until the record breaks).
7:10-end. "Trojan Horse" theme played in full (four times).

(NARA RG-165-151) No date announced during broadcast.
0:00-9:30. War reportage.
9:38-10:25. Special message -- Achtung! Achtung!
11:00-end. "Trojan Horse" theme, 1212 Sender.

(NARA RG-165-152) No date announced during broadcast.
0:00-4:55. "Trojan Horse" theme played in full (2.5 times).
5:05-11:15. War reportage. German soldiers, Russian winters; guest workers; clothing shortages.
11:20-12:28. "Trojan Horse" theme.
12:30-13:05. Announcement: 5 minute break from broadcast, a music program to follow in 2.5 hours.
13:10-end. "Last news."

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Language: German
English
Genre/Form: Radio broadcasts.
Propaganda.
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

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Topical Term: Propaganda, American.
Radio broadcasting, American--Germany.
Radio in propaganda--Germany.
Radio, Military.
World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
Corporate Name: Radio Luxembourg.
Radio 1212.
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 Notes: Technical note: NARA RG-165-144 - Someone speaks in the background of the recording
Recorded Sound Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
File Number: Source Archive Number: RG-165-144
Source Archive Number: RG-165-145
Source Archive Number: RG-165-146
Source Archive Number: RG-165-147
Source Archive Number: RG-165-151
Source Archive Number: RG-165-152
Conditions on Access: You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
Copyright: Public Domain
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
: Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:00:07
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