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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the headline: "Nazi Losses Mounting: 193 In 24 Hours" |
(The Air Ministry is now competing with the German Propaganda Ministry to see who can tell the biggest lie to their population.) |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "New Super Bomb Used Against British" |
(This is probably a report about the SC-1000 or "Hermann Bomb" which was used by the Germans. The weight is exaggerated by half as the bomb only weighed a little over 1,000 lbs.) |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 1-3: "Completion Of Fund For Tasmania's First Spitfire For The R.A.F." |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the headline: "Channel Gale Routes Invasion Fleet" and related reports. |
(Even though several newspapers mentioned this, I thought this headline was particularly interesting, especially since there was not going to be an invasion. All of the top British military strategists, intelligence staff and even the Prime Minister himself had been fooled by the German propaganda. It seems that they were very scared and scared people make foolish decisions. If they had stepped back and really analyzed the evidence, they would have known that no serious invasion could have been undertaken by the Germans.) |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the headline: "Churchill Warns Of Nazi Invasion" |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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(Click below for part eight of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by Jonathan Daniels.) |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the headline: "London Is Shelled Across Channel" |
(Another false report, no such gun existed.) |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan. |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in column 6: "10,000 Casualties From Plane Raids" |
(The figures given to the War Cabinet were a little less, but it is noted that the figures were only approximate. For the period Sept. 7 to Sept. 14 the number of civilians killed in the greater London area was 1,286, the number of wounded was 5,699. In the rest of the country for the same period the numbers were; 133 killed, 404 wounded. The document does not have figures for the Sept. 15 raids, but I have calculated from another source the number of total civilians killed nationwide as 219. I don't have a figure for the number of people who were wounded.) |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Dover erneut von Küstenbatterien beschossen. |
(Dover under fire by coastal batteries again.) |
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Sept. 17, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Das Schicksal Warschaus droht London |
(The fate of Warsaw threatens London.) |
2. Rüstungsindustrie der Hauptstadt gelähmt. |
(Armament industries in the Capital paralyzed.) |
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Page published Sept. 17, 2021 |
