09-11-2018, 06:10 PM
(08-11-2018, 06:37 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: The Volksempfänger and its little brother the Kleinempfanger were designed solely for listening Goebbels' radio. As Trevor said, they didn't want their good aryan populus listening to muck from the BBC.
A lot of these sets were brought back to the UK by British servicemen as trophies. The eagle and swastika logo was often ground off. Hardly surprising since if you'd just been fighting the nazis you didn't want too many reminders of the hated swastika in your home. The result is that unmolested sets are relatively rare in the UK and hence more valuable.
https://www.bvws.org.uk/publications/bul...n_26_1.pdf
p. 20 refers.
I understand that article has been translated into German, printed in the German equivalent of the BVWS Bulletin and is regarded in Germany as definitive. Since it was written by a Briton, is it too much to hope British commentators might read it?
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
