World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, February 29, 1940
Day 182

February 29, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "50 U-boats Sunk"
(The report states this was the number given to Hitler by the German Admiralty. In reality the number of U-boats lost to date was 16, including one sunk in an accident. The claim that this figure was given to Hitler was probably made up out of whole cloth by the French writer. While the British and French naval commands may have believed that many more U-boats had been sunk than actually were, the Germans knew exactly how many U-boats hand been lost and would not have given such an absurd number to the Führer.)


February 29, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 2: "Pimpernel Robs Gestapo Of Victims"


February 29, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the reports about the California floods.
(After watching the news coverage of the recent floods in California (Feb. 13 and 14, 2021), this report makes it clear that California has had floods before. Many in the current media made claims that floods like this (speaking of today's storms) had never happened before or that this was a new phenomenon caused by climate change. Neither of which was true.)


February 29, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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February 29, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 1: "She's The Best Undressed Girl"
(How times have changed, in this report the parents are ashamed of how their daughter conducts herself.)


February 29, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Schluß mit der plutokratischen Tyrannei.
(Enough of plutocratic tyranny.)
2. Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels in der Stadt des Westfälische Friedens.
(Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels in the city of the Peace of Westphalia.)


February 29, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Verheerende Uberschwemmungen in Kalifornien.
(Devastatingf floods in California.)
[Even the German press reported on the flooding in California.]
 
2. Wieder Grenzverletzung britischer Flieger.
(British airmen violate the border again.)
3. 60 Tote bei italienischem Grubenunglück.
(60 dead in Italian mine accident.)



   
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