Description
German WWII Radio/Volksempfanger in mint like condition – VE 301 DYN GW. Made circa 1938.
The bakelite housing is complete and without cracks or damages. It is the best condition bakelite houing we have ever seen on a Volksempfanger. It is very shiny and great of color and condition and only shows minimal age damage like scratsches and such. The textile loudspeaker cloth is excellent too. This is simply a great original Volksempfanger that is as good as impossible to upgrade.
The whole radio was professionally refurbished a few year ago, and it comes with a written piece of paper that lists all the restoration work that has been done to the radio. This work was done for an amazing amount of over 500 euro’s, and this shows!!!!
The size is approximately 26 × 30 × 18 cm.
The functionality has not been tested. Please mind this item is over 80 year old, and we offer it as a display collectable to collectors or museums. Since it was professionally refurbished i think it might work, but i have not tested this!
Definately a great original collectible for any warroom, militaria- or radio collection or museumdisplay.
If only ever you would want one Volkssempfanger and in as good condition as possible, than this would be the one to get!
IMPORTANT: due to it’s size, weight and fragile material we would advise a pickup after ordering. If you choose for shipping per courier than we will pack it as good as we can in a lot of bubblewrap and within a box in a box. Shipment, especially international, is however at risc of the buyer. We strongly advise a pickup! Also certain international destinations (outside of Europe) may need a higher shipment amount as our standard shipmentcosts and we might have to contact you for this afterwards.
A little background:
In the 1930s this type of ‘people’s receiver’ served as a mouthpiece for Nazi ideology in millions of German households. On either side of the tuner display is an eagle with a swastika. The designation 301 refers to the day of Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power, namely 30 January 1933. This particular type was produced around 1938.
In his final speech at the Nuremberg trials, Albert Speer, Nazi Minister of Armaments and War Production, described how under Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship the use of “technical devices like the radio and the loudspeaker, 80 million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.” These Volksempfängers, or “people’s receivers,” are material evidence of Hitler’s technological manipulation. Developed at the request of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and designed to be cheaply produced, these basic, Bakelite-encased receivers, made radio technology available to the general public. With tuners indicating only those German and Austrian stations that broadcasted Nazi propaganda, these devices played a central role in Hitler’s regime. However, clever listeners could tune in to Allied wavelengths using external antennae, a bold act considering it was a criminal offense punishable by fines, deportation to concentration camps, or even capital punishment. These radios thus encapsulate the dual nature and powerful potential of communication in modern times. Though intended as vehicles for Nazi propaganda, the Volksempfänger was transformed by brave citizens into tools for resistance.
