Radio Luxembourg - October 27, 1944

Recorded Sound | Digitized | RG Number: RG-91.0612

Overview

Description: TRACK 1
(0:00-8:35) [French] Eupen priest escaped from Smolensk speaks. Date Oct 27, 1944. Sent to Russia for punishment as stretcher bearer, Abbe Jean Rentkens spent 2 1/2 years among the Russian people and praises their heroic attitude toward the Nazi opressor. He describes the crime of the Feldgendarmeria, and German prison executioners.
(8:45-11:45) [French] Cut 1 Abbe Rentkens relates some of his experiences in Russia Nazi sadism as opposed to Russian courage.
(12:09-14:22) [German] Cut 2 Sister of the above priest explains why the European population turned against the Nazis.

TRACK 2
[German] Mr. Thiele, a young Aachen manufacturer speaks of his experience with the Hitler-Jugend movement. Date Oct 27, 1944. He gives a historical outline of the various phases of the movement. Explains why he and his friends turned away from the movement after Hitler's coming to power. How the party leader's exploited the eager but gullible youth of the HJ. As a closing, he gives his view on the methods to be used to re-educate German Youth.
Date: Broadcast: 1944 October 27
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

Physical Details

Language: French 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-165-174
Source Archive Number: RG-165-175

Record last modified:: 2024-02-21 07:30:20
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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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