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War on the Ether: Shortwave Propaganda Broadcasts from the Axis Powers : [excerpts]

Item number (ISN):

418044

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-03-28/1974-03-30

Item number (ISN):

418044

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

UNITED STATES. NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

Accession:

1976-0036

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1974-03-28/1974-03-30

Description:

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Excerpts of an audio documentary by Les Waffen, head of the Sound Recordings section of the U.S. National Archives, about shortwave progaganda broadcasts from the Axis powers. The excerpts are as follows: Reichrundfunk, Berlin radio call letters, frequences, German overseas service in Berlin (7 February 1945): Whoopee, a musical satire by Radio Charlie from recordings of Berlin radio propaganda songs (no date); Fred W. Kaltenbach, chief of Berlin's North American shortwave service (who was nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw by the British press) from the program Dear Harry, broadcast from Berlin to North America (20 May 1940); Douglas Chandler (whose radio name was Paul Revere), commentary to North America (October 1941); Robert H. Best of Radio Berlin (9 November 1942); William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), from the commentary Where the Onus Lies, from Berlin to England (12 April 1940); Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), from the program Women of America (18 May 1943); Ezra Pound from the talk entitled Power, broadcast by Radio Rome to America (18 May 1943); The Continental, a Radio Charlie satire (no date); Zero Hour, a program broadcast by Radio Tokyo with Iva D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) (14 August 1944); WBBM radio/television documentary by Bill Curtis with Iva D'Aquino entitled Tokyo Rose - Two Wars Later (November 1969); and excerpt of the final broadcast by Lord Haw-Haw (30 April 1945). <25mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. These clips were presented by Les Waffen during a presentation to the ARCS annual meeting in Philadelphia in April 1974.~2. A copy of Les Waffen's text for the presentation is in the collection file.

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Vault ISN:

500189

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1976-0036/1

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

Reproduction access:

with permission of Leslie Waffen and radio stations

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