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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Warsaw's Heroic Mayor Executed - Mass Executions For Sabotage" |
(This may not be true, but what was true is that Stefan Starzynski did not survive the war. Exactly when the Germans executed him is not known.) |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Spitfire Fund Grows To £4480" |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the headline: "Churchill Warns Of Invasion" |
(The German propaganda had worked, even on the Prime Minister. Although in a cabinet meeting he was quoted as saying, Hitler may not invade at all.) |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Nationality Code Is New" |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the headline: "Invasion Is At Hand, Churchill Warns" |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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(Click below for part three of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by John Steinbeck.) |
[Click here to read Part three of "Our Country"] |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Tragedy Here Recalls That Bersanti's Brother Killed Wife, Himself In Anaconda" |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Feiger Uberfall auf Berliner Innenstadt. |
(Cowardly attack on center of Berlin.) |
2. Fernkampfgeschütze greifen ein - Göring dankt Hamburgs Luftschutz. |
(Long range guns intervene - Göring thanks Hamburg's air raid protection.) |
3. Bomben auf Reichstag und Kunstakademie. |
(Reichstag and the art academy bombed.) |
Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Der Vernichtungskampf geht weiter. |
(The battle of annihilation continues.) |
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