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June 22, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Parents Rush To Send Children Away - Queue Of 3000 Outside London Office" |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazi Battleship Heavily Damaged" |
(According to the report the battleship Scharnhorst was damaged by a bomb during an air attack. The report is somewhat accurate, Scharnhorst was attacked on June 13th at Trondheim by British aircraft. According to the war diary of Scharnhorst, the first bomb fell 50 meters aft of the ship on the starboard side, the second bomb hit near a 150mm turret on the port side, but failed to explode, the third bomb fell in the water aft of the ship 50 meters to port. The Germans did not report any casualties from the attack.) |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Gandhi Would Use Non-Violence Against Hitler" |
(Clearly Gandhi did not understand Hitler and the Nazis.) |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 2-3: "Lost Town Found" |
(Peruvian aviators located a village that had been out of communication with the world for 25 years.) |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Transport With 5000 Men Aboard Held Sunk" |
(There was no such ship at Bordeaux, but there was a ship, which was bombed and sunk off St. Nazaire with the loss of about 5,000 men, the Lancastria.) |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Alles blickt auf Compiègne. |
(Everything looks towards Compiègne.) |
2. Laufend Telefongespräche mit Bordeaux - Seit heute vormittag neue Beratungen im historichen Wagen. |
(Continuing phone calls with Bordeaux - New discussions in the historic rail car this morning.) |
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June 22, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Der Führer empfing die französische Abordnung. |
(The Führer received the French delegation.) |
2. Die Schande von Compiegne gelöscht. |
(The shame of Compiègne erased.) |
3. Übergabe der Bedingungen im Salonwagen Marschall Fochs. |
(Delivery of the terms in Marshal Foch's saloon car.) |
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Page published June 22, 2021 |