Radio Luxembourg - October 23, 1944

Recorded Sound | Digitized | RG Number: RG-91.0610

Overview

Description: TRACK 1
Actual recording of a meeting of the Camp commitee, Democracy at work in miniature. Date Oct 23, 1944. Flüchtlingslager near Aachen. Q&A, mostly 2 voices. Laying the groundwork for true democracy, etc.
(4:00) Improvised Camp chorus with accordion. Date Oct 23, 1944. Accordion intro. Male voice: "We are young people from Aachen evacuated to a camp near Aachen. We will present a short musical program." Selection of sentimental/patriotic folksong followed (at 6:30) by anti-Hitler lyric volunteered by young voice and encouraged by group leader, "You're free now to sing what you will!" Ensemble follows with Nazi-era hit song "Es geht alles vorüber" with added parody text: "Es geht alles vorüber, geht alles vorbei/Auch Adolf Hitler und seine Partei!" (updating a familiar wartime parody, "zuerst Adolf Hitler, dann seine Partei"). Rousing accordion solo yields to another sentimental choral song. End.

TRACK 2
Date Oct 23, 1944
Date: Broadcast: 1944 October 23
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
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: Records of War Department General Staff 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-165-170
Source Archive Number: RG-165-171

Record last modified:: 2024-02-21 07:30:17
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Also in Operation Annie broadcasts

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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