Operation Annie - undated

Recorded Sound | Digitized | RG Number: RG-91.0599

Overview

Description: (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."
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

Physical Details

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

Rights & Restrictions

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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.

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 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

Record last modified:: 2024-02-21 07:30:21
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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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