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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Manila Report Says Luckner Is With Pacific Raiders" |
(This is the second time that Von Luckner had been said to have been at sea, this time, he is supposed to have 12 armed raiders under his command. Von Luckner, the commanding officer of SMS Seeadler from the Great War, was actually living in Sweden after falling out with the Nazi government.) |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Senate Committee Votes Down Resolutions to Ban or Restrict Use of Navy Ships for Convoy" |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Nur geringe Aussichten auf ein Entkommen. |
(Little chance of escape.) |
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April 30, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Balkankatastrophe - ein schwerer Schlag für Englands Kampfkraft. |
(Balkan catastrophe - a heavy blow to England's fighting power.) |
2. Australiens Kriegsminister: Der größte Teil des britischen Kriegsmaterials in Griechenland verloren. |
(Australia's War Minister: Most of Britain's war material lost in Greece.) |
[This is one of the propaganda reports which Goebbels hoped would drive a wedge between England and Australia.] |
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Page published April 30, 2022 |
