 On December 25, 1937, a Telefunken 25-kW transmitter and two directional antennas were added.Vatican Radio broadcast over 10 frequencies.During the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalist forces received a powerful Telefunken transmitter as a gift of Nazi Germany to aid their propaganda efforts, and until 1943 Radio Nacional de España collaborated with the Axis powers to retransmit in Spanish news from the official radio stations of Germany and Italy.