Elmer Davis and the News
Adolf Hitler's Speech at Danzig
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Elmer Davis and the News presents a news broadcast identified with journalist and commentator Elmer Davis. This recording is titled “Adolf Hitler's Speech at Danzig,” placing its focus on a major political address in the tense period surrounding the outbreak of the Second World War.
The program offers a contemporary radio news perspective: listeners hear a report centered on the speech and its significance as presented in the broadcast. Its historical interest lies in encountering the event through the language and framing of news radio at the time, rather than through a later retrospective account.
The result is a concise archival listen for those interested in wartime-era broadcasting, political history, and the sound of news as it reached radio audiences. The title points to the subject of this recording without requiring any additional context to follow its central focus.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.