{"id":16776,"date":"2024-06-17T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/radio-paris\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:16:13","slug":"radio-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/radio-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16776\" class=\"elementor elementor-16776 elementor-4444\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-474e43e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"474e43e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95a57a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"95a57a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>  Radio-Paris was the first commercial radio station in Paris, France, and was taken over by the government in 1933. Beginning in July 1940, the German occupiers seized Radio-Paris and used it as their primary propaganda tool throughout the war. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90367a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90367a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>  Since the majority of French families owned a radio, the German occupiers considered broadcasting propaganda messages a priority. They took over the facilities and equipment of Radio Paris in order to capitalize on the prestige of what had been the nation\u2019s leading radio station before the war. <\/p><p>  The new Radio-Paris is, in fact, a German radio station, run by Germans, but it broadcasts in French. It set up shop in the former studios of the Poste Parisien on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. Since Radio Paris has a very high-powered transmitter, its broadcasts reach all of Europe and North Africa.  <\/p><p>  With substantial financial resources at its disposal, this German-run French-language radio station recruited numerous collaborationist and anti-Semitic journalists. The external Resistance organized and struck back with the famous jingle \u201cRadio-Paris-ment-Radio-Paris-ment-Radio-Paris is East German,\u201d set to the tune of \u201cLa Cucaracha\u201d (a Latin American revolutionary song), which was broadcast on the BBC\u2019s French-language programs in London. <\/p><p> <\/p><p>  The station\u2019s premises were liberated on the evening of August 15, 1944, by a commando unit made up of police officers from the R\u00e9sistance Police movement and station employees, after more than four years of Occupation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23ccd1e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23ccd1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p><p>Romon, Fran\u00e7ois, 2017, <em>Radio Surveillance in the French Resistance: 1940\u20131945<\/em>. Nouveau Monde Ed. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio-Paris was the first commercial radio station in Paris, France, and was taken over by the government in 1933. Beginning in July 1940, the German occupiers seized Radio-Paris and used it as their primary propaganda tool throughout the war. 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