A radio duel between Erwin Piscator and Joseph Goebbels that was never broadcast.
In 1930, the communist theater director Erwin Piscator and Berlin's Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels met for a discussion at the radio station. The legendary verbal duel was never broadcast – and yet it caused a sensation.
Debating in the radio station at Potsdamer Platz in 1930: Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945, left) and Erwin Piscator (1883–1966) piemag/TT/imago
When plans for a radio program to be broadcast from the radio station then located at Potsdamer Platz became public in the autumn of 1930, people even in distant Austria pricked up their ears. A Viennese newspaper promised its readers a "sensational verbal duel," and another paper recommended the program "to all those who have access to foreign reception"—not without expressing its annoyance that no domestic station was broadcasting the program, in which there was also "greatest interest in Vienna."
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