Question: I received a link from my cousin, and wonder if it's a true story. The video is about 8 minutes long. Peoria is featured about halfway through as the location of a "Hitler" radio station ...

GLIWICE Poland (Reuters) - Joachim Fulczyk still remembers the fateful radio broadcast 75 years ago this weekend that provided Adolf Hitler with a pretext to launch his invasion of Poland that sparked ...

But there was a reason for its scoop: it was actually a British station masquerading as a Nazi station, and thus knew about the landings early. The Soldatensender was a very popular covert station: ...

One day last week German listeners, tuned to their home stations, caught the cultured enemy accents of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, coming over the same Nazi radio that ...

To German-speaking listeners Philadelphia’s station WTEL brought news this week: U.S. technical research, declared WTEL in impeccable German, is superior to the Reich’s, will help win the war. The ...

In May 1941, a federal grand jury indicted a former Bradley student He claimed his radio transmissions were all "in fun." The FCC "could not overlook the seriousness of the effects of his broadcasts." ...

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