Radio Königsberg was a radio program broadcast by the '' Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft'', which transmitted news related to Nazi Germany during World War II. It transmitted in

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

; the purpose was to gain Swedish support for Germany but most of all for Adolf Hitler, his Nazi Party and the ideology of Nazism. Radio Königsberg was originally produced at the ''

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'' in Berlin, but moved to East Prussian Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) when the

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started to bomb Berlin. When the Red Army approached, it moved to occupied Oslo and transmitted from there until World War II ended. The program reached a considerable popularity with about 10% of the Swedish population reported as being regular listeners. Among the people involved in Radio Königsberg were:

Dagmar Kronstedt Dagmar Carola Adelaide Cronstedt (5 October, 1919–5 December, 2006) was a Swedish countess who during the Second World War worked at Radio Königsberg, broadcasting German propaganda to neutral Sweden. She mainly did a talk show together with ...

, Thorolf Hillblad, Elin Svensson, Anna-Lisa Gerloff and Gösta Richter.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radio Konigsberg Defunct radio stations in Germany Nazi propaganda Nazi propaganda radio Sweden in World War II Radio stations established in 1940 Radio stations disestablished in 1945 Mass media in Kaliningrad

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