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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Invasion Talk Again" |
[Historical note: On Dec. 18, 1940 Adolf Hitler released Directive #21 entitled Operation Barbarossa. This was the first official announcement to the German general staff confirming that Hitler was ordering the invasion of the Soviet Union. The first sentence reads; "The German Armed Forces must be ready to crush Soviet Russia in a rapid campaign, even before the termination of the war with Britain."] |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Milk Supplies Back To Normal" |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Woman To Die For Treachery" |
(The British, after protesting the possible executions of two British women by the Germans, now prepared to execute a woman in England, Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, for being a German spy. However, in Feb. 1941, her death sentence would be suspended.) |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Rumoured Execution of Badoglio" |
(The rumor was false. Not only was he not executed, he would be Italy's Prime Minister following Benito Mussolini's arrest and removal from office.) |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "4,588 Killed During Air Raids On Britain Last Month" |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 5: "3 Ships Report U-Boat Attack" |
(The tanker Pendrecht had been damaged by a torpedo from U-96, but made port. She was sunk June 8, 1941 by U-48. The Norwegian tanker Dalfonn may have been attacked, but I have no record of the incident, she survived the war and was scrapped in 1960. The Napier Star was the only ship of the three which sank. U-100 sent it and 71 men to the bottom of the sea.) |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Beaverbrook Predicts Nazis Will Attempt to Invade Before Spring" |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. In Sheffield brennt noch ein ganzes Stadtviertel. |
(Whole neighborhood still ablaze in Sheffield.) |
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December 18, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. 2.Großangriff auf Sheffield. |
(Second major attack on Sheffield.) |
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Page published December 18, 2021 |