Nazi Radio Guard enforced listening at neighborhood level

Evidence

Radio can be ignored or turned off; one might even choose to listen to foreign stations. The Propaganda Ministry’s answer to such problems was to outfit a small army called the Funkwarte, the Radio Guard, party loyalists assigned to every neighborhood or apartment block to make sure that the radio was being listened to. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 418

Categorization

• SEED: A dark-history angle: how every attention technology — from radio to TikTok — eventually acquires its enforcers who monitor actual engagement, not just broadcast.
• XREF: connects to: Nazi radio infrastructure let one man dominate the minds of an entire nation — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 383