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All this is straightfoeward nonsense! The most silly thing is believing in one's own propaganda :=)
""All Volksempfängers sold on the domestic market were purposely designed only to receive the Deutschlandsender and regional stations of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, so as to ensure that Nazi propaganda broadcasts could readily be heard while other media, such as the BBC's European Service (now the World Service), could not. To this end most Volksempfängers lacked shortwave bands and did not follow the practice, common at the time among other receiver manufacturers, of marking the approximate dial positions of major European stations on its tuning scale. Generally only German (and later Austrian) stations were marked [1] [2] and cheaper models did not have a proper scale at all (an example pictured above has its dial marked in arbitrary numbers rather than metres or kilocycles). The sensitivity was lower than a normal radio although in practice it could with some difficulty still be used to receive foreign stations (including the BBC)[2] particularly as these stations increased their transmission power during the war.
Listening to foreign stations became a criminal offence in Nazi Germany when the war began, while in some occupied territories, such as Poland, all radio listening by non-German citizens was outlawed (later during the war this prohibition was extended to most other occupied countries coupled with mass seizures of radio sets[3]). Penalties ranged from confiscation of radios and imprisonment to, particularly later in the war, the death penalty. "" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.183.120.189 ( talk) 13:28, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
This section seems to have become a tad longwinded. While the Utility receiver certainly merits a mention there is far too much detail about it in an article which is supposed to be about the Volksempfänger. A short mention with a link to a separate article would be better surely ? 2.216.170.200 ( talk) 21:53, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Also, it's inaccurate from my personal experience. I once had one of these Utility Receivers. It did have an external antenna socket and, with that connected, was very sensitive. Near Glasgow, it picked up Radio Caroline loud and clear from Isle of Man: this was barely audible on more modern sets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.93.191 ( talk) 17:13, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
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Phil Nelson [8] says the circuit is a TRF design...and “Radio Remembered” [9] (recently inserted by an IP user [10]) says the circuit is a regenerative design. Which is authoritative? Note that some TRFs have Regen controls: [11]. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 21:38, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Not mentioned in the article but there were export versions of the Volksempfanger produced with higher sensitivity and the shortwave bands which were missing from domestic models. Their purpose was two fold.
Gehört eigentlich zum Punkt Siehe auch: In der Sowjetunion gab es vor allem in Neubauten fest installierte Radioapparate. Die sog. "Radio Totschki" (Радио точки, dt. Radiopunkte).-- 213.142.97.181 ( talk) 14:59, 10 January 2022 (UTC)