Even poorest pit houses usually possess a state-sponsored Volkempfange — Anthony Doerr, Light Cannot See

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Even the poorest pit houses usually possess a state-sponsored Volkempfanger VE301, a mass-produced radio stamped with an eagle and a swastika, incapable of shortwave, marked only for German frequencies.Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if toward the lips of God.

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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