[BC] German Radio Spying 1938

[Jeff Carter]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:46 AM, wpio-fm <wpio at gate.net> wrote:

> I first thought it was an RF device trying to pick up an I.F. signal,
> but then I wondered if it were just a highly sensitive and directional
> microphone.  Or it was just plain bluff, and it was neighbors who would
> report you.

Bluff.  The Nazis were masters of psychological terror, or so I'm told.

I'd ride around and glare ominously at everybody, and then I'd grab
somebody at random from a cluster of houses or apartments, shake them,
and say, I've got you, you schwein!  The meters, they cannot be
fooled!

Herr Victim would say, Nein! It's the neighbors! I heard them myself!

Then you've got probable cause to bust down the neighbor's door.
Wait, no, probable cause is an American construct.  I'm mixing up my
fascist regimes, sorry.

Jeff