This DKE (Deutscher Kleinempfänger) röhrenradio from 1938, was manufactured by "Stassfurter Rundfunk". It has been fully revised, restored and is in operational condition.

These radios were build between 1938 and 1944. A derived model, the DKE50 was build up to 1950. The German national socialist regime wanted to distribute a low cost radios, so also less financilly strong Germans could also acquire one and could listen to the propaganda broadcast. The radia was nicknamed "Goebbels Schnauze" (Goebbels Beak). The goal was to have a new radio type for half the price (35,- RM) compared with the existing Peoples Radios (like the Volksempfänger VE 301) at the time available.

Initially, the radios were procuced by the Seibt company in berlin, but later also by AEG, Braun, Blaupunkt, Brandt, Emud (Maestling), Eumig, Hagenuck (Nordmark, Neufeld & Kuhnke), Lange, Loewe (Radio A.G.), Lorenz, Mende, Nora, Orion, Owin, Philips, Radione, Reico , Rundfunktechnische Erzeugergemeinschaft (Gemeinschaftserzeugnis), Saba, Sachsenwerk, Schaleco, Schaub, Siemens , Stassfurter Rundfunk, Tefag, Telefunken and Zerdik.

A version operation with batteries (DKE38B) was also manufactured so people without electrical power could listen to the broadcasts as well.