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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "U.S. Express Disaster: Thirty Dead, 100 Injured" |
(More on this in the U.S. papers below.) |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the tobacco advertisement at bottom right with the image of HMS Hood. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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Note the headline: At Least 26 Die In Train Wreck" |
(After all was said and done, 31 people died as a result of this train wreck. I am sure that during the investigation into this tragic crash someone said, we have to find out what happened so it never happens again, just like they do after every tragedy today. Sadly, the truth is as long as there are trains, there will be train accidents. As long as there are airplanes, there will be airplane crashes. As long as there are ships, there will be shipwrecks. As long as there are cars, there will be car accidents. And people will die in them.) |
[Only 2 hours after I learned about this story, while I was working on this page on Apr. 2nd, a report of a train wreck in Taiwan, in which up to 50 people had died came across my television screen. It is what I call a "Synchronicity" moment. The crash of the Tarko Express is Taiwan's second deadliest train accident in 70 years. In 1948 a train that caught fire killed 64 people.] |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Die Wehrmacht zum Kriegsgeburtstag. |
(The Wehrmacht on the wartime birthday.) |
2. Tagesbefehle des Heeres, der Kriegsmarine und der Luftwaffe zum Ehrentah des Führers. |
(Daily orders of the Army, Navy and Air Force in honor of the Führer.) |
[The following Order of the Day was issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine, Großadmiral Erich Raeder: "Men of the Navy, today on the birthday of our Führer and Supreme Commander we renew the oath of unconditional loyalty and obedience we swore to him. True to this oath we will pursue the fight forced upon us with unshakeable courage, firm resolve and unbounded will to win and add new successes to those unexampled ones gained by the Navy in combat against overwhelming odds. With unshakeable confidence we look to the man who is leading our people upwards to new greatness. We follow on the way he shows us in the proud consciousness that the goal set will be attained and final victory be ours. So let it be. Long Live the Führer!" |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Des Führers Kriegsgeburtstag. |
(The Führer's wartime birthday.) |
2. Bomben-Volltreffer auf Kreuzer und Transporter. |
(Bomb hits on cruisers and transports.) |
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April 20, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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(A full page tribute to Adolf Hitler on his birthday.) |
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April 20, 1940: Page 3 of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Der Führer, der erste Soldat seines Volkes. |
(The Führer, the first soldier of his people.) |
[A propaganda page full of photos showing Hitler in a good light.] |
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Page published April 20, 2021 |