The Archive · 1940

Earphones Under Sheets

Other correspondents reveal that Germans, Poles and Czechs resort to many novel expedients td escape the vigilance of the Gestapo, One writer said that his set was muffled in a hearth-rug; many listened with earphones sometimes under the sheets in bed. When passing on from mouth-to-mouth information picked up from foreign radio the usual formula is: "I dreamed that the English did so and so last night,"

Another common trick is to turn on an official German broadcast at full blast or to play a record of the Horst Wessel song as a blind while surreptitious listening goes on in an attic or a cellar.

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