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Joseph Goebbels

Goebbels proclaimed it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations

Saturday Sep 2, 1939
Germany

On 2 September 1939 (the day after the start of the war), Goebbels and the Council of Ministers proclaimed it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations. Disseminating news from foreign broadcasts could result in the death penalty.


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