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June 25, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Nazis Execute 30 More Czechs" |
(More executions in the wake of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.) |
Also note the report in column 2: "Germans Shoot Seven French Scientists) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "U-boat Base in Brazil" |
(This report was not true.) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Four Jap Warships Sunk" |
(This report is not supported by post-war Japanese documents. Only one small ship, a river gunboat named Sumida, was slightly damaged by aircraft 100 miles west of Hankow.) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "700,000 Jews Slain -
More than 700,000 Jews have been slaughtered by the Germans in Poland and Lithuania in the greatest massacre in the world's history" |
(The greatest massacre in the history of the world does not even rate a bold headline, but an eight-paragraph report, below the fold, in the bottom left-hand corner.
This figure was probably greatly underestimated since 1942 was the deadliest year for the Jews. It is estimated that as many as 25% of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed in 1942. That would put the number of Jews killed in 1942 alone at 1.5 million. This report mentions the gas vans of Chelmno, which were specially built vans, which were sealed with the exhaust vented into the sealed chamber. Jews were loaded into the van and driven to a ditch for burial. The Germans tested the route to make sure all would be dead by the time tie van arrived at the burial site. Other Jews were forced to remove the bodies from the vans and move them to the pits. The report also mentioned starvation and disease being used to kill Jews. All of these things were true and, as you can see, were all known to the governments and the public. Nobody can say, we did not know what was going on.) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the photo at top: "Burning Jap Cruiser After Yanks Got Through" |
(After several reports of Japanese cruisers being sunk, this photo shows the first Japanese cruiser sunk in World War II. The cruiser was the Mikuma, which was sunk by aircraft from USS Hornet CV-8 and USS Enterprise CV-6 at the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942. About 650 men were lost with the ship.) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Nazis Wipe Out 2nd Czech Town" |
(In retaliation for the assassination of Heydrich, the people of the village of Lezaky were rounded up. All 33 men and women were shot. 13 children were initially spared, but 11 were ultimately sent to the death camp at Chelmno and gassed in the vans mentioned above. The other two children were selected for Germanization and sent to live with German families. These two were located after the war and and returned to their families. The village was razed and never rebuilt.)
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June 25, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Sub Sinks Two Navy Patrol Boats, 20 Lost" |
(USS Gannet AVP-8 was sunk by U-653 with the loss of 14 men. USS YP-389 was sunk by U-701 with the loss of 6 men.) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 7: "AVG Sinks Four Japanese Ships" |
(In the Dundee paper above, the credit is given to Chinese airmen not the American Volunteer Group (A.K.A. the Flying Tigers.) Either way post-war Japanese documents do not support this claim. Only one small ship, a river gunboat named Sumida, was slightly damaged by aircraft.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Crew Is Saved" |
(The unidentified ship was the 4,362-ton freighter L. A. Christensen, which was sunk by U-129.) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Civilian Copper May Be Seized" |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Churchill will keine Schuld haben. |
(Churchill wants no blame.) |
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June 25, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Neue Illusionsmache in London - Empörung über Tobruk mit faulen Mitteln unterdrückt. |
(New illusions in London - outrage about Tobruk suppressed with rotten means.) |
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Page published June 25, 2023 |