World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday August 7, 1940
Day 342

August 7, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazis Say Jews to Pay for War"
(The official newspaper of the SS, Das Schwarze Korps, says a prerequisite to peace is a Jew free Europe with Jews banished to some "remote corner of the globe." They also, once again, blamed the Jews and Britain for the war.)


August 7, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 5: "Streicher Report - Berlin Denies Death"
(It was widely reported yesterday that Julius Streicher was dead. This was not true. Some papers were still running the report today, see the Sydney paper below. Streicher was hanged Oct. 16, 1946 by the Allies at Nürnberg.


August 7, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Nazi Jew-Baiter Reported Dead"
(The German denial is the last paragraph.)


August 7, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Petrol Ration Will be Based on H.P. and Normal Business Mileage"


August 7, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Convoyed British Ship Sunk Off Irish Coast"
(Accra was sunk by U-34, which was not sunk in a counterattack as is stated in the report.)


August 7, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 7: "Alien Jailed For Un-American Talk"
(This would never happen in America today. In today's America the democrat party believes that talking bad about America is patriotic. Even our own President has gone on national television on several occasions and called our country "systemically racist," without ever providing an example of his accusations. Can you imagine Putin or Xi or Kim saying such things about their countries? No of course not, only in America are the leaders so completely ignorant.

We have numerous athletes in Tokyo at the Olympics right now, who disgrace themselves, and who disgrace the nation by protesting their OWN country. One of these anti-American women is currently the national spokesperson for Subway sandwiches. [Since she was named their spokesperson, I have not bought a Subway sandwich and will not until she is fired.]

I have not watched the Olympics this year because of the anti-American activities of the American athletes. They are protesting America, but not communist China, a country that uses slave labor. A country that has concentration camps for Uyghurs. A country that is threatening Taiwan. A country that murdered as many as 100,000,000 people since 1949. These same ignorant people who protest America, are wearing clothing and shoes made by slaves of the communist Chinese and say not a word about them.

You can't blame them entirely, they have been miseducated by leftist/communist professors at American colleges. Their minds were warped when they were young and they have not been taught the capacity to reason or think. They have been taught that socialism/communism is good and capitalism is bad. The Nazis did the same thing to their children, they warped their minds with vile propaganda and the world was given the Holocaust as a result. The American schools are currently attempting to do the same thing to your children, using critical race theory and other dangerous leftist propaganda. It's sad to say, but if our children are taught these destructive things, the future of the United States and the world is very bleak.)


August 7, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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August 7, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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August 7, 1940: Part 4 of Life in Poland Under the Nazi Conquerors, published in The Evening Star. This six part series, written by Michael Sobanski, from an account by Ira Wolfert, is an uncensored account of the conditions in Poland under Nazi rule.
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Note the report at top right: "Communist Candidate Gets 15-Year Sentence"
(Oscar Wheeler, who was the communist candidate for Governor of West Virginia, now going to prison due to fraud in the petition process.)


August 7, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Der Führer bei Krupp in Essen. Auf der Villa Hügel.
(The Führer at Krupp in Essen. At the villa Hügel.)


August 7, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. In drei Wochen 680.000 BRT. versenkt.
(680,000 BRT sunk in three weeks.)
[A post war assessment by the Admiralty shows that in the first week of Aug. 1940 losses to British shipping totaled 38,162 gross tons. The total for the entire month of July was 271,056 gross tons. This makes a total of 309,218 tons of shipping lost. These figures do not include fishing vessels or warships. As you can see the German figure was very inflated.]
2. Seit 1. September 1939 fünf Millionen Tonnen vernichtet.
(Since Sept. 1, 1939 Five Million tons destroyed.)
[The post-war assessment by the Admiralty states that between Sept. 1, 1939 and Aug. 31, 1940 the British lost a total of 1,659,264 gross tons of shipping. This figure does not include fishing vessels or warships. The German figures are extremely inflated.]
3. Erfolgsziffern des Jahres 1917 weit übertroffen.
(Successes far exceed the numbers from 1917.)



   
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