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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Ark Of Juneau Sneaks Out Of Harbor, Races Stork To Alaska" |
Also note the report in column 5: "Brand Plot Sink U.S. Ship Fantastic Lie" |
(In a lame attempt to sow division between the United States and England, the German propaganda machine releases a claim that England will sink the SS President Roosevelt and blame Germany for the attack. After the sinking of Athenia, the Germans used the same tactic, they blamed England, and Churchill directly, for the loss of American lives in the ship which was sunk by a German U-boat. This so-called warning may have been a preemptive attempt to give Germany some cover just in case one of their U-boats should sink the ship by mistake.) |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Ark of Juneau Reaches Nanaimo" |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Athenia Absichten mit President Roosevelt. |
(Athenia's intentions with President Roosevelt.) |
[The German claims that SS President Roosevelt would be sunk by England.] |
2. Flugplätze rings um Paris bombardiert. |
(Airfields around Paris bombed.) |
3. Hafen von Dünkirchen in Flammen. |
(Harbor of Dunkerque on fire.) |
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May 27, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Churchill plant ein neues Athenia-Verbrechen. |
(Churchill plans a new Athenia crime.) |
[The German claims that SS President Roosevelt would be sunk by England.] |
2. Vernichtungskampf gegen die eingeschlossenen Heere. |
(Struggle against extermination for the trapped armies.) |
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Page published May 27, 2021 |