Television Under The Swastika

[RickHolland]

"Recently uncovered footage long buried in East German archives confirms that televisions first revolution occurred under the Third Reich. From 1935 to 1944 Berlin studios churned out the worlds first regular TV programming replete with the evening news street interviews sports coverage racial programs and interviews with Nazi officials"

Contrary to popular belief, it wasn`t the English or the American media that first created the concept of television `programming` as we know it today (what an appropriate term in retrospect) the dubious honour in fact belongs to the Nazi Party who in March 1935, began its national television service.

This was the first non-experimental public television service and it in fact took England another twenty one months to begin its service, which began on November 11th 1936. Given the fact that America television is now the fountain head of programming for the planet in terms of supply and the ideological inspiration for the form and content of television programming, it is perhaps surprising to hear it took the Americans another two years before they began broadcasting on a daily commercial basis in 1939."

Television Under The Swastika - The History Of Nazi Television (1999) - YouTube

Television Under The Swastika - The History Of Nazi Television (1999) - YouTube