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October 29, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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[Historical note: On this day the SS and German police units along with auxiliary police units from Lithuania murdered 9,200 Jews in the Kovno ghetto in Kaunas, Lithuania.] |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Hitler Stops Executions" |
Also note the report in column 2: "V.C. For Gallant Australian" |
(Private James Heather Gordon awarded the Victoria Cross.0 |
Also note the report in column 5: "A Minister's Asthma" |
(Reports of Lord Beaverbrook leaving due to health concerns were incorrect. Lord Beaverbrook did not leave his post as Minister of Supply until Feb. 4, 1942, when he became Minister of War Production. He left that post on Feb. 19, 1942 and remained out of office until Sept. 24, 1943 when he became Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, a post he held until July 27, 1945, at which time he left government service permanently. He died on June 9, 1964.) |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Nazis Call Off Mass Trials - Concentration Camp for Norwegians Instead" |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "French Patriots At Lille Kill Two More Germans" |
(Not only did they kill two more Germans, the man they thought had information about the killers of Lt. Col. Haltz, was found dead, by poison, in his cell.) |
Also note the report in column 2: "No Guns For Women" |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 1: "14 Ships In British Convoy Sunk, Says Berlin" |
(The Germans claimed to have sunk 14 merchant ships that were in convoy over the course of six days. They also claim sinking one of the escorting destroyers. They had sunk four merchant ships from convoy HG-75 and three from other convoys. They also did sink a destroyer, the famous HMS Cossack. Cossack, under the command of Captain Philip Vian, R.N., had rescued almost 300 British and Commonwealth prisoners, all of whom had been captured from ships sunk by the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee. One hundred and fifty-nine men went down with Cossack.) |
Also note the report in columns 4-5: "Kansas City Police To Test Reactions Of Drunken Drivers" |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Knox Silent on Sub Sinkings; British Urge More Secrecy" |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Stukas zerschlagen Stellungen vor Moskau. |
(Stukas smash positions in front of Moscow.) |
2. Mussolini: Wir stoßen durch! |
(Mussolini: We break through!) |
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October 29, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die letzten Produkte jüdischer Gangster. |
(The last products of Jewish gangsters.) |
2. Roosevelt versucht es mit falschen Dokumenten. |
(Roosevelt tries false documents.) |
3. Deutsche Truppen in Kramatorskaja. |
(German troops in Kramatorskaya.) |
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Page published October 29, 2022 |
