{"product_id":"germany-calling","title":"Germany Calling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDigital download · USD 9.99. Technical audio verification is complete for all 2 source files. The complete MP3 ZIP is included with this digital download.\u003c\/strong\u003e Recording identities and rights are unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSupplied collection title:\u003c\/strong\u003e Germany Calling. 2 source-file listings, retained in their original order. Technical decoding and duration checks are complete for all 2 supplied source files. A file count is not a count of distinct recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGermany Calling is the supplied label for two unidentified audio listings. It suggests a starting point in wartime broadcasting history, while Track 01 and Track 02 disclose no speaker or programme. These notes place radio in the history of Nazi propaganda, its monitoring and later preservation. They provide a setting for critical study; the contents of the unexamined files remain unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDigital download · USD 9.99.\u003c\/strong\u003e Technical audio verification is complete. Recording identification and rights review remain open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCollection status\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-technical-summary=\"verified\"\u003eThe supplied 2 source files passed full technical decoding. Total measured source audio: 47:08, rounded to the nearest second. The complete archive, Germany-Calling-MP3.zip (90,132,598 bytes), contains 2 full-length MP3 files encoded at 256 kbps and is included with this digital download. Source order and filenames are preserved. Preview excerpts of up to 25 seconds are prepared. Technical measurements do not identify a recording, verify musical completeness or establish distribution rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied 2 listing positions and generic titles are retained in order. They do not establish the number of original broadcasts, speakers, disc sides or programmes. Source spelling, capitalization and filenames are unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTrack listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003col data-source-list=\"canonical\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-source-filename=\"01 Track 01.wav\" data-source-position=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e01 Track 01.wav\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp data-measured-audio=\"verified\"\u003eMeasured source duration: 20:22, rounded to the nearest second. MP3 access format: 256 kbps. MP3 playback may vary slightly because of encoder padding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe generic title provides no speaker, programme, date or content identification. Opening announcements and the extent of any speech, music or later commentary are unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpen research questions: The identities of any broadcasts, scripts, music, performances, sound recordings and later edits remain unresolved. Any permissions needed for previews, sale or redistribution in the intended territories remain unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-source-filename=\"02 Track 02.wav\" data-source-position=\"2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e02 Track 02.wav\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp data-measured-audio=\"verified\"\u003eMeasured source duration: 26:46, rounded to the nearest second. MP3 access format: 256 kbps. MP3 playback may vary slightly because of encoder padding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe generic title does not establish whether this is a continuation, a separate broadcast or a later compilation. Its relationship to the preceding file remains unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpen research questions: The identities of any broadcasts, scripts, music, performances, sound recordings and later edits remain unresolved. Any permissions needed for previews, sale or redistribution in the intended territories remain unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBroadcasting in its historical setting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese notes concern documented historical examples and archives. They are not descriptions or identifications of the supplied tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eA familiar announcement is not a voice identification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNDR describes an English-language propaganda broadcast from Hamburg using the announcement Germany calling. Sheffield’s archive explains that William Joyce’s Nazi broadcasts targeted British morale. These facts make wartime radio a research direction for this album label; they do not establish Joyce, Hamburg or any specific programme as the source of either file. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ndr.de\/nachrichten\/info\/Wer-war-Lord-Haw-Haw,audio83073.html\"\u003eNorddeutscher Rundfunk: Wer war Lord Haw-Haw?\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.shef.ac.uk\/agents\/people\/541\"\u003eUniversity of Sheffield Special Collections: William Joyce\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRadio within a system of censorship\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Nazi regime controlled news and used radio alongside other media to promote dictatorship and antisemitism. Affordable receivers and public loudspeakers helped carry its message. This institutional setting calls for critical attention to propaganda’s purposes; no particular message or ideology has yet been established in these unexamined files. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/nazi-propaganda-and-censorship\"\u003eUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Propaganda and Censorship\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eListening also produced an intelligence archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBBC Monitoring began in 1939. Its staff monitored, translated and transcribed foreign broadcasts, producing records used by newsrooms and government. Surviving transcripts and digests offer potential checks on words, dates and programme sequences. Their existence does not establish that these files are BBC monitoring recordings or match any transcript. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gallery\/BBCM%20and%20Digital%20programme.pdf\"\u003eImperial War Museums: BBC Monitoring and Digital Research\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWartime excerpts can have a later editorial history\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Australian War Memorial’s 1975 teaching compilation Media in Wartime combines Axis and Allied broadcasts. This later format distinguishes original transmissions from subsequent editing. Neither supplied file has been matched to it. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.awm.gov.au\/collection\/S03127\"\u003eAustralian War Memorial: Media in Wartime\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eA digital track need not represent one original disc\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe National Archives describes overlapping disc sides, damaged or missing material and later tape transfers in its captured German recordings. This preservation history illustrates why a digital track boundary alone cannot define a complete speech or original side. It establishes no connection between that institutional collection and these files, whose carriers and transfer histories remain unknown. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/captured-german-records\/sound-recordings.html\"\u003eU.S. National Archives: Captured German Sound Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eRecording research and provenance\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal carriers, labels, matrix numbers, recording dates and transfer histories remain unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeakers, performers, programmes, broadcast stations, broadcast and recording dates, places, composers, arrangements, original labels, catalogue and matrix numbers, original carrier medium, transfer history, audible languages and spoken or musical content remain unverified. Album labels and generic filenames do not authenticate recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTrack-by-track uncertainties\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTrack 01\u003c\/strong\u003e: The generic title provides no speaker, programme, date or content identification. Opening announcements and the extent of any speech, music or later commentary are unverified. Rights remain unresolved.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTrack 02\u003c\/strong\u003e: The generic title does not establish whether this is a continuation, a separate broadcast or a later compilation. Its relationship to the preceding file remains unknown. Rights remain unresolved.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEvidence limits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDates, names and descriptions belong to the cited historical examples. None is adopted as recording metadata. Generic Track labels do not support cross-album identification or merging. Sound comparisons have not been performed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSource descriptions and catalogue records were examined as text. Cited audio was not played, and no institutional item has been matched to a supplied recording.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnverified. Recording identification and rights review remain open for all entries. No public-domain, royalty-free or redistribution permission is asserted. The USD 9.99 album price does not establish rights clearance for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhysical ownership, age and educational framing do not establish permission to distribute. Broadcast scripts, music, performances, recordings and later edits may require separate review.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresented for critical historical study of broadcasting and propaganda. Nazi dictatorship, antisemitism and the violence promoted by its propaganda are not endorsed. No propaganda transcript, lyrics or imagery are reproduced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCollection provenance and evidence limits\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal carriers, labels, matrix numbers, recording dates and transfer histories remain unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical accounts, work dates and comparison catalogue records do not establish recording identity, audible language or vocal\/instrumental content. Composition, arrangement and recording rights remain unverified. The complete MP3 ZIP is included with this digital download.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"History in Sound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53709853327649,"sku":"HIS-CD490-ALBUM","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/nadeltonrecordings.com\/products\/germany-calling","provider":"Nadelton Recordings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}