World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday, August 22, 1941
Day 722

August 22, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "Command for Lord Louis Mountbatten."


August 22, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Nazis Have Lost 2,000,000 Dead and Wounded - Soviet Spokesman"
(The daily lies and exaggerations from the Russians. According to Wikipedia, the total figures for Operation Barbarossa from June 22, 1941 until Dec. 5, 1941 were: German casualties;

186,542 killed
40,157 missing
655,179 wounded.
Total: 881,878)
Also note the report in column 4: "6,000 Jews Arrested In Paris"
(The French police, in a five-hour action, arrest Jews from 17 to 50 years old and put them into concentration camps.)


August 22, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "States Malady May Be Caused By Mosquitoes"
(There are a reported 182 cases of sleeping sickness in Manitoba, but in Minnesota and North Dakota the number of cases reported was 1,500. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, all children under 12 had been banned form public and private swimming pools for the rest of the summer to stop the spread of polio.

The news about the current polio concern in New York is that even though the virus has been found in wastewater systems, including in New York City, there has not been a second case of polio reported.)


August 22, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 2: "Der Furrer"
(A cat named Adolf, for obvious reasons. I would have called him Kitler.)


August 22, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in column 3: "10,000 Jailed As Nazi Army Patrol Paris"


August 22, 1941: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida.
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Note the report at top right: "Nazis Say Jews Must Eat Potatoes Only"


August 22, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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August 22, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Sowjet-Niederlagen an der ganzen Front.
(Soviet defeats all along the front.)


August 22, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die Sowjetfront wankt von nord bis Süd.
(The Soviet front is shaking from north to south.)



   
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