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Well, I have one, a SABA "Friedburg" that has the 88-108, from 1953... I also have a Polish Diora "Calypso" that I DON'T know the date on, but IT has the USA band as well. I have several others, a Nordemende, a couple Grundigs. They say that the vaunted German Economic miracle was primarily due to HEAVY export of Volkswagens, but all these German Table radios played THEIR part, too. And, Why Not ? They were pretty, generally EXCELLENT performers, & they must have counted on American GIs buying couple of them-Every GI stationed in Germany-, because there sure were a LOT of 'em 50 years down the road, that eventually found their way to "Antique" shops. I've picked up SEVERAL of 'em, like I said, w/a little TLC-Usually cleaning their "Piano keys"- & a recapping, & you have a VERY neat & impressive relic from a LONG time ago. The Russians did what NOBODY else ever did-They took a nation full of Germans-the GDR-And made them POOR. I think the GDR, & W.Germany were roughly equivalent-Economically, til the late Sixties, when the West pulled ahead of the GDR, & never looked back. When I was in W. Germany in '78, we didn't get anywhere close to the GDR, but the West was roughly equivalent to, at least from what I saw, they weren't much different than here in America. W. Germany, economically, at least was calling the shots in Europe. I think they STILL are. W. Germany, remember, didn't have to develop a big military-They had the Americans & NATO to take care of them. The "Economic Miracle" would have been retarded for quite awhile, if they'd had to have a big military presence. Its a rather ironic thing-W.Germany-well, ALL of it now- achieved in utter defeat from the war-They were/are MORE successful than ALL of Hitler's mad dreams.
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