Radio Königsberg was a radio program

Radio programming

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 broadcasted by the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft

Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft

The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft , which can be loosely translated as the State Broadcasting Company, was a national network of German regional public broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945...

, which transmitted news related to Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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 during World War II

World War II

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. It transmitted in Swedish

Swedish language

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; the purpose was to gain Swedish support for Germany but most of all for Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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, his Nazi Party and the Nazism

Nazism

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 ideology.

Radio Königsberg was originally situated at the Haus des Rundfunks

Haus des Rundfunks

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in Berlin

Berlin

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, but moved to East Prussian Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

 (present-day Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad

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) when the Allies

Allies of World War II

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 started to bomb Berlin. When the Red Army

Red Army

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 approached, it moved to occupied Oslo

Oslo

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 and transmitted from there until World War II ended.

The program reached a considerable popularity with about 10% of the Swedish population reported being regular listeners. Among the people involved in Radio Königsberg were: Dagmar Kronstedt

Dagmar Kronstedt

Dagmar Cronstedt, born 1919, died 2006, was a Swedish countess who during the Second World War worked at Radio Königsberg, broadcasting German propaganda to neutral Sweden. She mainly did a talkshow together with Brita Bager, focussing on current news events....

, Thorolf Hillblad, Elin Svensson, Anna-Lisa Gerloff and Gösta Richter.

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