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August 19, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Both Legs Lost" |
(The Aberdeen paper publishes yet another false report based on a rumor. The usual suspect, Radio Moscow, was not the source for this false report, it is credited to British officers who were former prisoners of war. Needless to say, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring did not lose his legs.) |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Germany Hints About New Battleships" |
(British United Press reports that a photo in the Völkischer Beobachter shows a battleship firing her forward guns. The caption reads "New German Battleship speaks impressive language with her 38-centimetre guns." To date, I have not seen such a photo in the Völkischer Beobachter. The last battleship commissioned by the Germans was the Tirpitz, which was commissioned on Feb. 25, 1941.) |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "R.A.F. Bombers Sink Enemy Patrol Vessels" |
(The Air Ministry claims that R.A.F. Blenheims sank three enemy patrol vessels off the Netherlands coast. There is no record of any German patrol vessels being sunk on Aug. 18th.)
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Sleeping Sickness Toll Mounts - Infantile Paralysis Cases Highest Yet" |
(21 new cases of polio, 16 new cases of sleeping sickness reported. The last paragraph reports that there were 49 new cases of sleeping sickness in St. Paul, Minnesota, making a total of 549 and that there had been 43 deaths.) |
| [See "Girl in 3 year mystery sleep" in The Brainerd Daily Dispatch of Mar. 22, 1940.] |
| [Also see "11 New Cases Recorded Tuesday - Report Infantile Paralysis Spread" in the Winnipeg Free Press of July 22, 1941.] |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Odessa ein-Sowjet-Dünkirchen. |
(Odessa a Soviet Dunkirk.) |
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August 19, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Jeder will es "besser" können. |
(Everyone wants to be able to do it "better.") |
2. Wirrwarr in der Lügenmaschine. |
(Tangled in the lying machine.) |
3. Von der Lage Im Osten wissen wir nichts Trotzdem Parole: Weitelügen. |
(We don't know anything about the situation in the east. Nevertheless, the slogan: far-reaching lies.) |
4. Roosevelt veranstaltet Gottesdienst für Stalin. |
(Roosevelt hosts a service for Stalin.) |
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Page published August 19, 2022 |
