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April 17, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "More Babies Call" |
(Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler sends out a booklet to his SS encouraging them to have more babies to replace the men who have been and will be, killed on the battlefield. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "School-Children Asked to do Fire Watching - Women Teachers Protest" |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the headline report: "Nazi Convoy Annihilated" |
(This time the details given to the press were accurate. A convoy of five cargo ships, (Adana, Ageina, Arta, Iserlohn and Sabaudia) bound for Rommel's Afrika Korps, escorted by three Italian destroyers, (Baleno, Lampo and Luca Tarigo) was attacked by Force K (H.M. destroyers Jervis, Janus, Mohawk and Nubian.) Every ship in the convoy was sunk. Only one of the destroyers (Lampo) was later raised and returned to service. The British lost one destroyer, HMS Mohawk. Lampo was sunk Apr. 30, 1943 by USAAF aircraft.)
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Also note the report in column 6: "Scheer In Indian Ocean" |
(The report stated that a Nazi raider, possibly Admiral Scheer, sank the French passenger ship Commissaire Ramel. Scheer did not, but the Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Atlantis did. But this occurred seven months earlier on Sept. 20, 1940. Why this was being reported now is unclear to me. On Apr. 17, 1941 Admiral Scheer was at Deutsche Werke in Kiel, Germany undergoing repair, not in the Indian Ocean.) |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Nazis Build For War With Russia" |
(This was reported yesterday in The Sydney Sun, but so far only the Australian papers are reporting this story.) |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. 10 000-BRT-Transporter im Indischen Ozean versenkt. |
(10,000 GRT transport sunk in Indian Ocean.) |
[The German press reporting the sinking of the French passenger ship Commissaire Ramel, but their report references a report from a New York paper. They do not mention the name of the ship that sank it. ] |
2. Vergeltung gegen London. |
(Retaliation against London.) |
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April 17, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Serbien am Ende. |
(Serbia at the end.) |
2. Unaufhaltsame Auflösung der Heeresreste - Sarajevo besetzt. |
(Unstoppable dissolution of the army remnants - Sarajevo occupied.)
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Page published April 17, 2022 |