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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "20,000 Drowned When Navy Smashed Landing" |
(This is the kind of propaganda piece one expects to see in the German or Italian papers, in fact, the Italian Fascist editor Virginio Gayda, just yesterday, said something equally as absurd. In reality, the Germans lost about 6,000 men during the Crete operation. The author of the piece, Larry Allen, today would, with his vast imagination for details that never happened, could write for the New York Times, or the Washington Post and he could host a show on MSNBC or CNN. Maybe he could be the press secretary for Biden, but for that position, he would need to be able to lie consistently.) |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Sunken Raider Was Disguised" |
(The unnamed raider was the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Pinguin. The first of the German Hilfskreuzer to be sunk in World War II.) |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report at top center: "Schmeling Tells Of Battle Of Crete" |
(The former world heavyweight boxing champion, Max Schmeling, reported to have been killed just days ago, now giving interviews from a Greek hospital.) |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Briesetal-Bote, Kreis Niederbarnim, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Unter dem Eindruck des Sieges von Kreta. |
(Under the impression of the victory of Crete.) |
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June 3, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Ein Ruhmesblatt deutscher Kriegsgeschichte - Kreta vollständig in unserer Hand. |
(A glorious page in German war history
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Crete completely in our hands.) |
2. Die Briten endgültig aus der Ägäis verjagt |
(The British finally driven out of the Aegean.) |
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Page published June 3, 2022 |