{"id":1390,"date":"2015-05-11T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2019-08-18T22:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T22:06:37","slug":"broadcasting-in-the-third-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/05\/11\/broadcasting-in-the-third-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcasting in the Third Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I have learned about Hitler’s rise to power in school, I did not know how instrumental German radio seemed to be in the Third Reich’s reign. They seem somewhat primitive now, but in the 1920’s and 1930’s, radios were considered a luxury item, and often far too expensive for the average German (one example Moorhouse gives says a radio was about two weeks worth of wages). Under Hitler, new models were produced at reduced prices, making radios available for a far wider audience. One was the portable DKE radio, which ran on batteries and made it possible to listen to broadcasts outside, or even in the countryside.<\/p>\n

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The German DKE radio ran on batteries, and while slightly more expensive, was portable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, like many newer technological developments during this time, Hitler and Goebbels utilized the radio for their own agenda. Propaganda messages were interspersed throughout transmissions of music, sports, and other forms of entertainment (so the German people would not be so bombarded with propaganda that they tuned out, but bombarded just enough that they still had to hear it). Broadcasts were even planned during working hours, so as to ensure the greatest number of citizens were gathered together to listen. As I’ve noted in my previous posts, it seems that the Third Reich was extremely good at expediting their ideology, so much so that they made readily available machines that could literally place propaganda in the home. Again, the Nazi Party seemed to do little without purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I have learned about Hitler’s rise to power in school, I did not know how instrumental German radio seemed to be in the Third Reich’s reign. They seem somewhat primitive now, but in the 1920’s and 1930’s, radios were considered a luxury item, and often far too expensive for the average German (one example…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17833,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/17833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}