Everyone interested in Nazi radios.

Go to Ebay.com then look under "Collectibles" then type in "radio German"
and then look at "1938 German Third Reich BAkelite Radio RARE!"
(Item # 1166091591 - there is also a second radio further down on the
list.).

Although this is probably different from Ron's radio (it is only a
receiver and is civil not military) it does make the point that
enormous numbers of radios carrying Nazi logos were produced between
1933 and 1939. Many were recycled during WW II by Germany but there
must have been a lot of these in the US purchased by Americans before
1941 (or 1939) not to mention brought back after the war.

The person in San Diego may have just been a German-American not
necessarily pro-Nazi or a Bund member.

I was going to buy this for you Ron but it is outside (and final
price has not been set) my budget.

                                Franz Boas*

* This message is from Branz Boas [not RLS, who is off this list for a
week] and he was a German!


At 02:54 PM 7/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Scott,
>
>Good question. The most powerful radio on the Pacific Coast in 1941-1942 was
>located just one mile south of the Nazi radio site. During the attack on
>Pearl Harbor, this was the only radio station powerful enough to pick up the
>signal from Hawaii. They also had a radio and sound laboratory that sent
>constant transmissions, micro waves, radar and even X-ray transmissions
>during the entire war. There was an OSS code school that also sent signals.
>On the other end of the spy spectrum, there would have been a lot of
>transmissions to pick up. Sorting all that out could have been a mess. Maybe
>the guy had the set to simply receive data that he passed on to agents at the
>local laundry?
>
>Ron
>
>
Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
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Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324

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