From the Archives The nurse who treated the Führer

19-06-2008 | David Vaughan

During the wartime occupation, German-language broadcasts from Prague were absorbed into the radio network of Nazi Germany, the so-called “Reichssender”. A number of archive recordings in German survive from the time. Most vivid and chilling among them are the long lists of names broadcast each day of Czechs arrested and executed. But there are also some propaganda curiosities. In June 1941, Prague’s German programme interviewed a nurse. She was living and working in the city, and remembered with great nostalgia one particular patient who had come into her care. This is how the broadcast began:

Adolf Hitler, right, during his stay in a military hospital in Pasewalk Adolf Hitler, right, during his stay in a military hospital in Pasewalk   Back

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