A survey of the French radio industry 1940–1944 as seen by the BBC

Notes and References

• BBC Intelligence Unit Wireless receiving sets in Europe (Confidential report) December 1943 8 8 11 (located at BBC Written Archives, Caversham Park, Reading). These figures were extrapolated from the following table, itself established from statistical information given in contemporary issues of UIR Bulletins: The report, Wireless Receiving Sets in France, has a bibliographic note in which it mentions its dependency on: C. Rousset's Annuaire de l'Electricité et de la T.S.F. (1939) and the Annuaire de l'Industrie Française Radio-Electrique (in particular, 1934). On ‘wartime developments’, the weekly newspaper of the Radio-diffusion Nationale, Radio Nationale was found to be useful as was Le Génie Civil and the Revue Générale de l'Electricité. French correspondents of the BBC are said to have often quoted from Annuaire de la Radio Française, La Radio Française (a weekly newspaper edited by Chauvière, once technical director of Radio-Paris) and the Bulletin du Comité d'Organisation de la Radio.
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• December 1940 . Rundfunk Archiv December ,
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• May 1942 . Les Nouveaux Temps May , 1
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• May 1943 . Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift May , 20
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• May 1942 . Les Nouveaux Temps May , 1
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• Information on the retail market is taken from Rundfunk Archiv 1940 December and on the labour force from the Annuaire de l'Industrie Française Radio-Electrique for the relevant years.
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• September 1943 . La Vie Industrielle September , 25
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 11 – 11 .
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• Ministry of Economic Warfare . 1944 . Basic Handbook—France, Chapter 2 4 – 4 . London Located at the Imperial War Museum
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• December 1940 . Rundfunk Archiv December ,
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• May 1942 . Les Nouveaux Temps May , 1
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• March 1941 . Journal Officiel March , 11
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• August 1940 . Journal Officiel August , 16
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 20 – 20 .
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• BBC . August 1942 . News Digest August , 11
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• BBC transcript Vichy Home Service 1942 September 24
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• Journal Officiel February 1943 2 cf. also Les Nouveaux Temps, 4 April 1943, for an ‘explanation’ of the law.
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 21 – 21 .
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• BBC transcript Vichy Home Service 1943 December 8
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• Journal Officiel September 1941 28 in Wireless receiving sets in Europe, p. 28.
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• Journal Officiel September 1941 28 in Wireless receiving sets in Europe, p. 28.
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• Journal Officiel May 1941 12 quoted by Radio Paris, (BBC transcript) 2 June 1941.
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• Présent May 1943 10 quoted in Wireless receiving sets in Europe, p. 28.
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 29 – 29 . These prices are quoted in correspondents' letters/despatches to the BBC Intelligence Unit during 1942.
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 30 – 30 .
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• For a general survey of the use of radio and film propaganda see Sorlin Pierre The Struggle for Control of French Minds, 1940–1944 Film and Radio Propaganda in World War II Short K.R.M. London, Canberra, Knoxville, Tenn. 1983 in
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• February 1943 . Le Matin February , 28
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• August 1943 . L'Oeuvre August , 25
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 32 – 32 .
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 32 – 32 .
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 35 – 36 . cf. also Gringoire, 19 December 1941
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• For background to this and other measures taken against Jewish property see Marrus M.R. Paxton R.O. Vichy France and the Jews Basic Books New York 1981 54 77 152–161
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• BBC . Wireless receiving sets in Europe 36 – 36 .
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