Air situation report
The air situation report was a radio and wire radio report at the height of the aerial warfare in the Third Reich.
During the high phase of the aerial warfare over the German Reich , at the beginning and during the attack by enemy bomber units, the population was continuously informed of the status of the fighting via radio and later via radio . In general, on the outbound flight of the Allied bomber formations, the radio listeners were informed that the transmitter would now temporarily cease broadcasting via radio (enemy formations could use the radio waves for orientation), and they were asked to switch on the wire radio. Wire radio was first used for this purpose during the air raids on Hanover and Münster (October 10, 1943). The instruction for this came from Hermann Göring personally, who wrote about the "preservation of the defenses of the population". Another technical possibility was the so-called “cuckoo call” in the radio program, through which the listeners were informed that important reports on the air situation were to be expected in the wire radio. The security service of the Reichsführer SS reported on May 11, 1944 that the “air situation reports that had been given for some time on the German broadcaster and the local wire radio reports about the air situation were in principle and generally very much welcomed by the population ... the people would like to, regardless of whether they get upset about it or not, never miss the air situation reports. ”The Reich Chancellery reacted to this . On June 16, 1944, Martin Bormann stipulated in order 133/44 that the "wire radio and the air situation transmitters of the Gaue primarily serve to educate the population about air raids and to direct the self-protection forces in air war zones". From air hazard 25, wire radio would be available to announce air situation reports. Only pause signals should be given between the air situation reports . The Gauleiters were only allowed to issue instructions to the party and the population via wire radio in special emergencies. "The overview map for air situation reports was an aid for listening to radio and wire radio reports in the high phase of the aerial warfare in the Third Reich. They were ordered by the Gauleitung Published in the local daily press from mid-1944, usually with the request to hang them up in the apartment or in the air raid shelter.
Web links
literature
- Hans-Joachim Zetzmann: "The transmitters and transmission systems of the Reichsflugsicherung - Part I and II", Berlin 1938/39
- Laurenz Demps : Air raids on Berlin. The reports of the main air raid shelter 1940–1945 . Ch. Links Verlag 2012. 2nd updated edition 2014, ISBN 978-3861537069
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laurenz Demps: Air raids on Berlin, The reports of the main air raid shelter 1940–1945, Ch. Links Verlag 2012, pp. 86–87
- ↑ CV (pdf, 4 MB)