Radio was an essential propaganda tool of the Third Reich. In the Czech provinces, it had to address an occupied enemy people. After an initial phase of primitive propaganda, the Nazis took a more factual and entertaining approach to Czech Radio. At the same time, radio ownership increased by 48%, and more Czechs could tune into Allied stations. Hitler's regime invested heavily into radio as the most modern media of its era. First in Germany, later in Austria and the Sudetenland, Joseph Goebbels motivated his Volksgenossen to become active radio listeners. But what approach did the regime take to the first non-German people occupied - the Czechs? How would Czech Radio's staff and listeners respond to Nazi-dominated programming? What strategies of defiance and what options for cooperation existed? What role did Nazism's core theme of anti-Semitism play? Which Czech societal groups did the Nazis try to reach most? This book casts a spotlight on the effects of the occupation authorities' policies on specific programming content, as well as on radio as a medium in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Contents: Radio history - Nazi propaganda in Czech lands - Anti-Semitic radio - Czech Nazi collaborators - Czech Radio defiance - Nazi Worker's Radio - Political sketches. Peter Richard Pinard studied German and Central European Area Studies at Bates College in Lewiston (USA), at the University of Bonn (Germany) and at Charles University in Prague. He works in Content Evaluation for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. «Die gut geschriebene Studie füllt eine wichtige Lücke in den Forschungen zur NS-Kulturpolitik im Protektorat [...].»
(René Küpper, sehepunkte 16 2016)
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