|Product :||Telephone Book|| |Produced from :||1943| |Designed
by :||Lorenz Duus Hansen| |Finish :||Metal box| One of the most
shining examples of anti-Nazi activities during the Second World
War was Lorenz Duus Hansen’s secret activities in Copenhagen.
Hansen was head of Bang & Olufsen’s office in Copenhagen and as
a result, he quickly became involved with radio contact between
the English and Danish resistance movements. The British, as
part of the Allies’ war effort, often parachuted radio
broadcasting and receiving equipment into selected regions of
continental Europe. However, one of the major obstacles with
these transmitters was their size. In use they had to be
stationary, and as the Germans’ technology was sufficiently
advanced to detect transmissions by the Underground movements
the potential of being caught and punished became ever-more
great as the war progressed. There was therefore a great need in
using smaller, more portable transmitters. Hansen’s
technological breakthrough came with his ‘Telep