''N.S.-Funk'' ("

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Radio") was a German magazine published from

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and

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between 1933 and 1939. It provided listings of radio programming schedules and reviewed programmes in accordance with the party line.

History

In 1932, the Nazi party leadership decided to start a radio magazine of its own to compete with the various existing radio magazines. The publication was founded in February 1933 as the first official Nazi radio magazine, tasked with providing listings of radio programming schedules in Germany and reviewing them in accordance with the party line. It replaced the radio magazine ' ('The German Broadcaster'), as the former (RDR) was taken over by the Reich Broadcasting Chamber.Bruce B. Campbell.
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and

until 1939, when it was merged into the magazine ''Volksfunk'' ('People's Radio'). ''N.S.-Funk'' was a central organ of the

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(NSDAP) and the (a body within the

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). It was published by

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, the central publishing body of the Nazi Party. It had an editorial branch office at Zimmerstrasse 88 in Berlin. Heinz Frante was the editor in chief of ''N.S.-Funk''. Over time, ''N.S.-Funk'' grew in popularity, by early 1937 it reached a circulation of about a quarter million copies. In contrast to other contemporary German radio magazines ''N.S.-Funk'' was published in various regional editions, covering each of the different broadcasting districts, such as

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, Saar-Palatinate, Central Germany, Western Germany, Southwest Germany, North Germany and South Germany. It was an illustrated weekly. During the prolonged ''Volkssender-Aktion'' propaganda campaign, each copy of ''N.S.-Funk'' would typically carry one or two pages dedicated to the announcements of the campaign. The publication ''Funktechnischer Vorwärts'' functioned as the radio technical edition of ''N.S.-Funk'' and ''Volksfunk''.

References

{{reflist Magazines established in 1933 Publications disestablished in 1939 Magazines published in Munich Magazines published in Berlin Nazi magazines