March 1939 - Germany's non-stop broadcasts to the world

The UK newspaper The Telegraph is running a series of articles on the run up to WWII 70 years ago and a recent article features the Short Wave Radio transmitter at Zeesen.

These days we take the Internet for granted and the importance of Short Wave Radio at the time can be hard to appreciate.

In the 1930's the only mass global communications medium was Short Wave Radio. Just try and imagine an Internet where there are only a couple of dozen websites permitted world-wide and almost all are Government run, that was Short Wave Radio in the 30's.

Read the full Telegraph article 'Germany's non-stop broadcasts to the world – Mar 2, 1939' at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/
britainatwar/4864774/Germanys-non-stop-broadcasts-
to-the-world---Mar-2-1939.html

The Telegraph - Britain at War
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/
britainatwar/

Zeesen Images Pre-1930
http://www.radiomuseum-koeln.de/Rundfunkgeschichte/
body_rundfunkgeschichte.html

Zeesen images 1930's
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radio-museum.de%2Fgeschichte
%2FZeesen.htm&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Zeesen 1936
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeesen-dm2awd-radio.de
%2F1936.htm&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Wiki - Deutschlandsender Zeesen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandsender_Zeesen

Wiki - Deutschlandsender Herzberg/Elster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Deutschlandsender_Herzberg/Elster

Image of Deutschlandsender Herzberg remnants, site destroyed after Soviet invasion
http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/
index.cfm?ID=s0010713