It also served as a radio station during the National Socialist period and disseminated Nazi propaganda for English-speaking countries.

The station was originally going to set up on the Island of Borkum but in the end Norddeich (now part of the coity of Norden) was chosen.

As a result of the German Revolution of 1918–1919 the station was occupied by members of a workers' and soldiers' council (Arbeiter- und Soldatenrat).

The station remained occupied for a year till the uprisings were bloodily shot down by nationalist militias.

The simultaneous transmission and reception of radio signals in the same place caused increasing problems.

In 1923 it was decided to set up a separate receiving station in the Norden suburb of Westgaste, three kilometers away.

As in the World War I, Norddeich Radio was strategically important for the coordination of the naval units of Reichsmarine.

All German ships at sea received - openly or hidden - news of the impending start of the war and thus their threat.

[6] From the autumn of 1939, a new Norddeich Radio facility transmitted the English-language propaganda program "Germany Calling" for foreign countries.

The transmitter was camouflaged as "Reichssender Bremen" or initially "Studio facility of the experimental transmission system N".

Vessels returning from North America could communicate with Germany from far out in the Atlantic once they passed 12 degrees west of Greenwich.

Four 65 m high steel lattice masts and two rotatable directional beam antennas were available for the medium wave range.