Rogue radio transmission thought to be portion of Hitler speech

CHICAGO: An unauthorised audio transmission over Chicago police radio frequencies last week seems to be a partial rebroadcast of an Adolf Hitler speech from a 1935 Nazi propaganda film, an expert says.

Based on numerous key words in the fragmented transmission, the audio seemed to be from a Hitler speech in Leni Riefenstahl’s film Triumph of the Will, said Imke Meyer, a professor of Germanic studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

‘‘Numerous key words were audible, among them ‘Deutschland’ [Germany], ‘Partei’ [party], ‘Volk’ [the people — as the German people would be refer red to in this context], ‘Jahrtausende’ [millennia — a reference to the idea that the Third Reich would endure for thousands of years], ‘Reich’ and ‘Fuhrung’ [leadership],’’ Meyer, who is also director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics at UIC, said.