Radio Netherlands Vrij

Vrij Netherlands Radio was a radio station on Netherlands addressed that at the beginning of the Second World War a short-lived broadcast from Paris.

Shortly after the German invasion of the Netherlands founded a number of correspondents in Paris, including Dutch Hendrik van den Broek, the broadcaster on, after consultation with Minister of Foreign Affairs E.N. victoria30.

On 19 may 1940 was made the first broadcast. There were 50 minutes, three daily broadcasts, along via Radio Paris, which already broadcasts in foreign languages groomed since 1939. The editors of the programs was done in a building from a subsidiary of Philips and the broadcasts were read out in a studio in a basement of the French PTT. It is based on a monitor messages for the service that the radio programs from the occupied Berlin and listened to Hilversum . A. den doolaard writer also worked at the station.

On 10 June 1940 the broadcasts were terminated because the German troops again were just before Paris. Several journalists came to work at Radio Orange and later as a Radio Netherlands.