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28. Aug. 2014

Communications and Emergency Planning During the Cold War

It was “strictly confidential”, obviously. Top secret. Yet during the years of the Cold War, some of Denmark’s sharpest minds were busy preparing the country’s telecommunications for the possible event of a nuclear apocalypse. If Denmark was attacked with nuclear weapons, the Post and Telegraph Service and the private telephone companies – in conjunction with NATO and the Danish Military and Civil Defence –were expected to ensure the continued functioning of vital government communications. A new research project at the Danish Post & Tele Museum will delve into the country’s telecommunications emergency planning during the formative period from 1945 to 1990. 

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26. Jun. 2014

Troubling telegrams in a troubled time

One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, Europe exploded into war and millions of soldiers plunged into a hellish, muddy battlefield with trenches, machine-guns and barbed wire. Yet World War One was also a war of communications – and a global struggle to gain control over the electrical flows of information. 

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22. Dec. 2009

Telephone Tapping in the 1930s

The debate on telephone tapping began in the 1930's when the state really began to listen in - however, only with some trouble as the instruments crackled and the signal was weakened when the police intruded on the line. In those days as well as now the tapping represented a democratic dilemma. 

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22. Dec. 2009

A Telephone Book with Real Leaves

Post, Telephony

Alternative exploitation of articles for everyday use takes place from time to time. Here we present a literary example from the infancy of the telephone. 

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19. Nov. 2009

Telephone Tapping According to the DSIS Commission

Miscellaneous , Telephony

The surveillance on Danish soil during the cold war has been fogged for decades. The long-awaited report of the DSIS Commission reveals some of the secrets through its 16 volumes and 4,600 pages. The report contains exciting information about telephone tapping during the cold war, but also problematic conclusions. 

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19. Nov. 2009

Test Coins or False 10-øre Pieces?

Miscellaneous , Telephony

What is this? Piet van Deurs once asked some very well-informed museum people. But in the popular TV quiz as well as in reality museum professionals sometimes have to give up and pass on the question. We are asking for knowledge of the use of 33 round metal pieces. 

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23. Sep. 2009

When are you under Surveillance?

Miscellaneous , Post, Telegraphy, Telephony

You are surrounded by eyes that never rest; by cameras and microphones that are never turned off. Your whereabouts are followed on the internet, the mobile phone, and when you are shopping. Has surveillance become such a natural part of your everyday life that you are no longer thinking about it?  As an innocent person you have nothing to hide anyway,  

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