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The model was comissioned from a conglomerate of radio manufacturers by the Ministry of Propaganda to supplement the larger Volkesempfänger VE301W (V&A W.7-2005). The receiver was constructed to receive only broadcasts from German stations. More than 3 million were produced before the outbreak of the Second World War when radio manufacturing switched to military contracts. 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