The Volksempfänger was a range of low-cost radio receivers produced in Nazi Germany, developed by engineer Otto Griessing at the request of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda.
Volksempfänger VE301 - The distinctive Bakelite cabinet was designed by the architect and industrial designer Walter Maria Kersting.
Deutscher Kleinempfänger, DKE 38 (built from 1938 to 1944)
1936 Nazi propaganda poster, promoting the use of the Volksempfänger. The text can be translated as, "All of Germany hears the Führer with the People's Receiver".
VE301 WN interior components
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.
Goebbels in 1933
Goebbels in 1916
Goebbels speaks at a political rally (1932). This body position, with arms akimbo, was intended to show the speaker as being in a position of authority.
Goebbels giving a speech in Lustgarten, Berlin, August 1934. This hand gesture was used while delivering a warning or threat.
