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February 12, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in columns 4-6: "Gestapo is Murdering Defectives" |
(William L. Shirer, recently returned from Germany, telling his readers that the Gestapo is killing mental defectives in both private and state run sanatoriums. It was not the Gestapo as such, but German doctors, and regular medical staff who were doing the killing. The Gestapo sometimes helped to round up the people and bring them in to be killed. This was known as the T-4 Program (Aktion T4) and was the first stage of the Holocaust. The program had been approved by Adolf Hitler on Sept. 1, 1939, the day that he invaded Poland and took its name from the address of the building that it was administrated from, Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin.) |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Secret Jap Plans in Plane Wreck" |
(The Chinese claim they have the plans for Japanese expansion in hand, found in a crashed aircraft.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "Used Car Prices May Be Controlled" |
Also note the report in columns 3-4: "Whirled 2,000 Feet Skyward On Balloon Rope" |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Death Sentence Quashed" |
(Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, who was sentenced to death in December, has 2 capital charges quashed, and the death sentence overturned. She is sentenced to 14 years in prison on other convictions.) |
Also note the report at bottom right: "O.G.P.U. Blamed For Death Of Former Soviet Spy Chief" |
(The O.G.P.U. was the forerunner of the N.K.V.D. and is widely thought to have assassinated him. He had defected and was working against Stalin, including writing a book, "Stalin's Secret Service" in 1939.) |
[Also see "Clerk Identifies Gun Sold to Ex-Soviet Agent" in The Evening Star below.] |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Liner Orford Is Sunk; Operates As Troopship" |
(The ship had been damaged by German aircraft eight months previously on June 1, 1940 during the Dunkirk evacuations. It was run aground off Marseilles, France, but was a total loss. The wreck was scrapped in 1947. Exactly why the Germans were crowing about the loss is not clear.) |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the photo at bottom right: "These All Missed the Illustrious" |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Clerk Identifies Gun Sold to Ex-Soviet Agent" |
(The gun that Walter Krivitsky used to kill himself, identified by the clerk who sold it to him. To the police the case is closed. While I have no direct knowledge of this case, it seems obvious that the police were happy to close the case as a suicide.) |
[Also see "O.G.P.U. Blamed For Death Of Former Soviet Spy Chief" in The Examiner above.] |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Man Sleeps WIth Monkey 10 Years" |
| (As the late, great, Paul Harvey would say, "Here is a Strange." You just have to read it yourself.) |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Neuer Tages-Einflug am Kanal abgeschlagen. |
(New daytime flights over the English Channel cancelled.) |
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February 12, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Britische Propaganda=Einsätze Kläglich gescheitert. |
(British propaganda missions failed miserably.) |
2. Einflüge im Kanalgebiet und in Norddeutschland kosteten 38 Abschüsse. |
(Flights in to the English Channel and northern Germany cost 38 kills.) |
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Page published February 12, 2022 |