(The wife of Lance-Corporal Harry Nicholls, V. C., learned that her husband, thought to have been killed in action, was actually a prisoner of war. Harry survived the war and died in 1975.)

(The married school teachers were not resisting a mask mandate, nor were they resisting a vaccine mandate, no, they were resisting losing their jobs because they were married. The Hammond school board decided that married women [only] should not be allowed to teach. Charles N. Scott, secretary of the board of education is quoted as saying this;

"We have been working for two years to eliminate married teachers and so far have been pretty successful. Five or six have quit, but there are at least six more who should go."

One of the teachers had been employed by the district for 13 years and married 3 years before the new edict. As one of my daughters is a high school teacher who works not far from Hammond, I asked her about this. As it turns out, they taught about this in college. The Hammond school board did not want married women in the classroom because they thought that women should be at home taking care of their own children. They also did not want a pregnant teacher in the classroom as this was bound to bring up some awkward questions. This of course, assumes that none of the students they are teaching have siblings and therefore have never seen a pregnant woman before. This is another example of how short sighted and ignorant some "educators" are.)

(The Pétain government in Vichy, France, turned over Herschel Grynszpan to the Germans. Grynszpan had shot a Nazi diplomat named Ernst vom Rath in Paris on Nov. 7, 1934, he died two days later, on the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. This murder was used by Propaganda Minister Goebbels and the Nazis to attack the Jews, since Grynszpan was Jewish. On Nov. 9-10, 1934 the Sturmabteilung, along with many German citizens, conducted a pogrom against German Jewish citizens in what is now known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night or the Night of Broken Glass.) About 100 Jews were murdered, 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps. 200 Synagogues were damaged, burned or destroyed along with hundreds of Jewish owned businesses. The real number of Jews who died is unknown, but it is a pretty good guess that after all was said and done, the number was well over 1,000.

Grynszpan would become one of them. After being taken from a French prison, he was taken to the infamous Gestapo headquarters on the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in Berlin. From there he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later to others, but for unclear reasons, he was never brought to trial. He was last known to be alive in late 1942, but his fate, like that of many others, is unknown to this day.)

(Since the beginning of the war the navy has sunk 4,323,000 GRT.)

[The German figure is very inflated. While it would take a substantial amount of time to provide a completely accurate figure, the best numbers I have for the period from Sept. 3, 1939 to Sept. 3, 1940 are as follows;
Total British merchant shipping losses were 1,377,184 GRT. Another source gives the figure 1,533,112 GRT.
Total Allied merchant shipping losses were 294,800 GRT.
Losses from Neutral countries were 658,332.
Total estimated losses for all nations (including Axis countries) were 3,104,267 GRT.
The above figures do not include warships or submarines.]