Foto: Noah Sach
Model: German small receiver, DKE 38 (built from 1938 to 1944), Phenoplast, trade name: Bakelite®, wave range: MW and LW, 24cm x 24cm x 12cm, for AC operation, Reich eagle with swastika on the front and on components inside the device, donation from Marburg
The radio is a ‘people's receiver’ from the National Socialist era. It was developed on behalf of Joseph Goebbels, the head of propaganda in the Third Reich, and introduced shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power at the end of January 1933. It was one of the most important pieces of Nazi propaganda. Speeches by Nazi officials were broadcast, false information was spread during the war and the expulsion and thus the murder of the Jews was propagated.
This model comes from Marburg - from a household clearance during the 1980s.