Original video by The Dutch Institute of Sound and Image (used without permission). Translated by Laurens Kagenaar
“I don’t speak Dutch so thank you immensely to Laurens Kagenaar for translating the video. After watching this video and discovering the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision I found out that they also had recordings of all of the Radio Orange broadcasts that were being recieved by Dutch citizens with the assitance of a Moffenzeef. Here they are below.”
“From April 1st 1942 to December 1st 1944 a monthly journal entitled ‘De Wervelwind’ (the whirlwind) was dropped by the RAF into Nazi occupied Netherlands. These pamphlets contained news abroad and allied propaganda. In issue #2, May 1942 instructions on how to build a device known as a ‘Moffenzeef’ were included on pages 16 and 17”
Original copy of “De Wervelwind” Issue Number 2 May 1942 Provided by request by the Royal Air Force Museum in London.
Original copy of “De Wervelwind” Issue Number 2 May 1942 Provided by request by the Royal Air Force Museum in London.
“Below you’ll find an attempted English translation of the pamphlet (with some heavy editing). Thank you very much to my buddy Richard Veenstra for translating this document.”
“I came across the term Moffenzeef through a bizarre wikipedia rabbit hole in 2012. The publication below (Louis Meulstee “Wireless for the Warrior” ) has the first image I ever saw of a Moffenzeef which later became the logo for the company. This publication led me to find ‘De Wervelwind’ and subsequently taught me how a Moffenzeef actually worked”
From Louis Meulstee “Wireless for the Warrior”
From Louis Meulstee “Wireless for the Warrior”
The original pamphlet, framed
“With the help of one of my European customers I was able to track down an original pamphlet from the war that was thrown out of one of the planes into the Netherlands. The pages detailing the Moffenzeef are now framed behind museum quality glass in my office. It gives me great pleasure to be reminded of our namesake on a daily basis. It’s way smaller than I thought it would be measuring 4” x 5” ”