Hitler’s 1935 broadcast reached 70 percent of German households, 56 million people

Evidence

As the orchestra faded, there was a crackling silence, and then a voice announced, “Now speaks the Führer!” Then came another voice, the voice, intimately familiar to every German. On this day, Adolf Hitler announced the reintroduction of military conscription, and with it the rebuilding of a standing German army. His words reached an estimated 70 percent of German households, some 56 million people, more than any fireside chat had reached, almost certainly the largest broadcast audience to that point in human history. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 382

Categorization

• XREF: Direct comparison to FDR’s fireside chats — links to the attention-infrastructure lineage the reader is tracking across chapters. — connects to: Nazi radio penetration reached 16 million households by 1942 — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 417

Broader Connections

• Nazi radio penetration reached 16 million households by 1942 #expands (0.85) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 417