WWII, the Wireless War
Oct. 7th, 2005 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaSo, in looking for old sci-fi programs, I came across this channel: World War II: The Wireless war.
It's a stream of newscasts from WWII. Mostly NBC and BBS but there's some other stuff too. Chilling. Currently playing newscasts from 1938-09-27. I missed Hitler's speech on claims to the Sudetenlan. Now it's on the allies dealing with the situation. Fascinating listening to the news from the day without revisionism. What people knew, what the mainstream was told. This station even throws in stuff from Tokyo Rose and Lord Hawhaw. I'm not much of a history buff. I'm sorta using this as a way to get background about the culture of the day because I find it adds interest to my reading of old books and watching old cartoons. I admit it also fascinates me to hear the voices of people long dead. Although, some of the descriptions of events are pretty horrific. :/ A couple days ago, I was in May of 1945 and they were interviewing soldiers who were entering the concentration camps and describing the things they saw there. People so utterly and heartwrenchingly broken. One soldier spoke of being assigned to give milk to the infants in a prison camp. A woman brought her baby, dead and black and demanded milk for it. She was so badly broken, he finally gave milk to the dead baby, pouring some into it's mouth. After that the woman lay down, hugged her child, and died. Haunting. Horrifying... And that was just one moment, one day there for the solider. Imagine how much worse it must have been for the people who suffered through that place.
So, tonight I'm going to go watch 'The Wall' but I think I might understand the headspace a bit better.
*shudder* Now starting: 1939-02-20 German-American Bund Rally Madison Square... If I listen close, I'll probably hear George Bush's grandfather cheering wildly. they're going on about how god-fearing and patriotic they are. I'd better go before I start ranting.
It's a stream of newscasts from WWII. Mostly NBC and BBS but there's some other stuff too. Chilling. Currently playing newscasts from 1938-09-27. I missed Hitler's speech on claims to the Sudetenlan. Now it's on the allies dealing with the situation. Fascinating listening to the news from the day without revisionism. What people knew, what the mainstream was told. This station even throws in stuff from Tokyo Rose and Lord Hawhaw. I'm not much of a history buff. I'm sorta using this as a way to get background about the culture of the day because I find it adds interest to my reading of old books and watching old cartoons. I admit it also fascinates me to hear the voices of people long dead. Although, some of the descriptions of events are pretty horrific. :/ A couple days ago, I was in May of 1945 and they were interviewing soldiers who were entering the concentration camps and describing the things they saw there. People so utterly and heartwrenchingly broken. One soldier spoke of being assigned to give milk to the infants in a prison camp. A woman brought her baby, dead and black and demanded milk for it. She was so badly broken, he finally gave milk to the dead baby, pouring some into it's mouth. After that the woman lay down, hugged her child, and died. Haunting. Horrifying... And that was just one moment, one day there for the solider. Imagine how much worse it must have been for the people who suffered through that place.
So, tonight I'm going to go watch 'The Wall' but I think I might understand the headspace a bit better.
*shudder* Now starting: 1939-02-20 German-American Bund Rally Madison Square... If I listen close, I'll probably hear George Bush's grandfather cheering wildly. they're going on about how god-fearing and patriotic they are. I'd better go before I start ranting.
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Date: 2005-10-08 02:02 am (UTC)Got a link?
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Date: 2005-10-11 05:57 pm (UTC)http://www.live365.com/stations/dr_willie_feelgood
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Date: 2005-10-11 07:21 pm (UTC)Although, depending on how good your german/italian/japanese is, there' s also Axis Forces Radio: http://www.live365.com/stations/kkilt