Radio 1212

The transmitter stationed in Luxembourg in 1212 the U.S. Army was on December 6, 1944 broadcast. The broadcast was terminated on 25 April 1945 for a sham intake of the transmitter. It was the channel uses a U.S. Tarnsender that radiated a German program between two and six clock on the long- wave frequencies of Radio Luxembourg, reaching the population of the Rhineland. His identity disguised the sender and pretended to be a German station.

The aim of the program was to encourage the civilian population, but also the German soldiers to the task or to overflowing. The messages consisted of a mixture of facts and conjectures, but also from deliberate disinformation. Other stations were among the other soldiers transmitter Calais, German short-wave transmitters Atlantic, Gustav Siegfried 1 and the transmitter of Christ the King.

Hanus Burger was as a director and editor with overall responsibility for the transmitter 1212.