The RRG (Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, i.e., Reich Broadcasting Corporation) was a national network of German regional public radio and television broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945. RRG's broadcasts were receivable in all parts of Germany. The German government gained control of the RRG by 1934, and from then on, the RRG was exclusively a propaganda organ for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Local stations were subsumed into the RRG as Reichsender. RRG employees who opposed the Nazi program resigned, and often met dire consequences.
From 9 July 1940 until the end of World War II, all Reichssender aired the same uniform nationwide program, which ended with the occupation of the Haus des Rundfunks by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945. RRG ceased to exist with Germany's defeat.
Historical recordings of RRG broadcasts are today held by the German Broadcasting Archive.
RRG in In the Presence of Mine Enemies[]
RRG was the Greater German Reich's state-sponsored news network. Horst Witzleben's "Seven O'clock News" broadcast was one of the most widely viewed programs in the country.
See also[]
- BBC, the similarly named (and still extant) agency in the United Kingdom.
- Radio Moscow, the analog in the Soviet Union.
- Confederate States Department of Communications, which serves as a Confederate analog in Southern Victory.
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