Radio Rennes Bretagne

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Radio Rennes Bretagne was a radio station based in Rennes, and the first station to have regular Breton language programming (However, it was not powerful enough to broadcast to the Breton-speaking parts of the region.) From November 1940 to June 1944 the station broadcast bilingual programming by switching over to Radio Paris for one hour each week.

During World War II, the station was placed under the care of professor Leo Weisgerber, a linguist from Marburg and Sonderführer of the occupying German army. Acquired under the guise of the Breton cause, it became a vehicle for racist and anti-semitic ideas.Roparz Hemon led the station. He focused on a cultural and intellectual, rather than political course of action. Unlike Radio Paris, Radio Rennes Bretagne never broadcast Nazi propaganda. Instead, racist ideas were subtly inserted into programmes which had high cultural content.

Management team: Leo Weisgerber (Director),Louis Némo, alias Roparz Hemon (Programming Director) François Eliès, alias Abeozen, Jean Trécan (Studio Manager)

disk jockeys : Florian Le Roy (French speaker), Abeozen (Breton speaker), André Guellec, Guillaume Berthou, Youenn Drezen, Georges Lemée, Juliette Nizan, Pierre Madec alias Jos Pempoull or Job Jaffré, Yves Levot-Becot, Baillarge, Esnault.