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October 7, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Torture In Rumania" |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 7: "British Tanker Torpedoed Twice" |
(The report was true, the tanker, British General, had been attacked twice by U-37. The two reports from the ship were the last time anyone ever heard from her, she sank with all hands.) |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Man, 70, Steals Body of Girl, Keeps It in Room for 7 Years" |
(As the late, great, Paul Harvey would say "Here is a Strange." Karl Tanzler van Cosel, from Leipzig, Germany, was trying to reanimate the girl because she died at 19. He is quoted as saying "I did not want one so beautiful to go to dust.") |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column3: "Germans At Home In Home Of Lindbergh" |
(Apparently Lucky Lindy had a home on an island off the French coast, which the Nazis now occupied. I consider the headline to be a little misleading, it seems to indicate that Lindbergh welcomes Germans into his home.) |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Englands Totengräber im Illusionstaumel. |
(England's gravedigger in a frenzy of illusions.) |
2. Hamburger Stadtteil in "die Luft geblasen." |
(Hamburg district "blown into the air." |
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October 7, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Volltreffer auf Öl-und Gas Behälter. |
(Direct hit on oil and gas tanks.) |
2. Der neueste Tip der Reuter-Tante. Oesterreich ist von der Adria aus anzugreifen. |
(Newest tip from Reuter-Tante. Austria is to be attacked from the Adriatic Sea.) |
3. Krampfhafte britische Illusionspropaganda zur Tarnung des fortschreitenden Zusammenbruches. |
(Spasmodic British propaganda illusions to camouflage the advancing collapse.) |
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Page published October 7, 2021 |
