Adolf Hitler & Joseph Goebbels PROPAGANDA Third Reich People's RADIO Deutscher Kleinempfaenger DKE 38 Telefunken
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Adolf Hitler & Joseph Goebbels PROPAGANDA Third Reich People's RADIO Deutscher Kleinempfaenger DKE 38 Telefunken
This Deutscher Kleinempfaenger (more properly spelled Kleinempfänger) DKE 38 radio was manufactured in 1938 in Germany.
The name means "German small radio." The DKE in the model designation stands for the words Deutscher Kleinempfänger and the 38 signifies the year of manufacture.
Using only two tubes, it's one of the simplest tube radios that you will ever come across. The Kleinempfänger was designed to be simple, and therefore cheap, so that as many Germans as possible could buy one. It cost only 35 Reichsmarks, roughly one week's wages for an average worker of that day.
This was a propaganda radio, in short. Germans nicknamed this set Goebbels' Schnauze (Goebbels' snout), referring to the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, whose voice was often heard over the airwaves.
In the article about my Volksempfänger VE 301 Dyn, you can learn more about German propaganda and the role that these radios played.
