Thursday, March 19, 2009

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - You Can't Do Business With Hitler "Episode 3 and Episode 5" (1942)


Episode 3 and Episode 5 (1942)


You Can't Do Business with Hitler, based on the experiences of Douglas Miller, who was for 15 years commercial attaché to the American Embassy in Berlin. Douglas Miller reveals the NAZI technique of plundering and looting conquered lands. This transcribed program written by Elwood Hoffman and directed by Frank Telford was brought to you by the Radio Section of the Office for Emergency Management in Washington. The shows were written and produced by the radio section of the Office of War Information (OWI), was transcribed four times a month. This series is one of the many thousands of government plays that were broadcast to help the war effort during World War II.


TODAY'S SHOW:

1942. Program #3 "No American Goods Wanted". Sustaining. December 9, 1941 is the date that Germany declared war on the United States, but war was really declared in 1934, through international trade. A dramatization of the case of James Dennison, who was not allowed to sell tallow to Germany, despite his contract to do so. Frank Talbot (preparer, director). 14:48.

1942. Program #5 "Mass Murder". Sustaining. "Mass murder" is Hitler's policy of exterminating racial groups. Poland is to be "di-populated," twelve thousand people have committed suicide! Elwood Hoffman (writer), Frank Telford (director). 14:53.

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