Radio werewolf
Radio Werwolf was a German propaganda radio station that broadcasted slogans to the German people from Nauen near Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich . The underground radio was operated by Joseph Goebbels .
background
On Easter Sunday , April 1, 1945, when the German Reich was on the verge of defeat, the station began its program. The only thing the station had in common with the werewolf underground movement was its name, although it naturally reported on their work. Perseverance slogans were issued on the transmitter at regular intervals, including from Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann . At the same time, resistance against the Allies was invoked. Martial declarations of war and evocations of revenge were intended to make the internal German resistance to the Allied troops appear greater than it actually was. The radio took responsibility for the death of Maurice Rose , who was shot dead on March 31, 1945 by regular German troops.
The National Socialist slogan " Better dead than red " is said to have been issued for the first time via the station . Other slogans were: "Hate is our prayer, vengeance is our field cry".
reception
- Victor Klemperer mentions the radio in a diary entry from April 1, 1945, eight o'clock.
- The gothic rock band Radio Werewolf , which gave itself a satanic and fascist image, named itself after the underground radio station .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Operation Werwolf was the name given to a Nazi plan to create a commando force. War History Online, September 1, 2013, accessed April 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Trees, Charles Whiting: Enterprise Carnival: the werewolf murder of Aachen's Lord Mayor Oppenhoff, Triangel-Verlag 1982, p. 236
- ↑ a b Cord Arendes : Terror from the Underground: Final phase crime of the "werewolf". In: Cord Arendes, Edgar Wolfrum , Jörg Zedler (eds.): Terror inside: Crimes at the end of the Second World War. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0046-0 , p. 150.