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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report at top left: "Two German Spies Executed in London" |
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "Nazis DO Listen to Careless Talk" |
(And they read careless reports in the press as well.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "New Bread Prices In a Few Days" |
December 10, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Anti-Jewish Move" |
December 10, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "21 Dead, 18 Hurt Aboard Saguenay" and "Saga Of Sea Is Told As Broken Destroyer Plows Way To Port" |
(The reports tell of the Canadian destroyer, HMCS Saguenay, being torpedoed by a German U-boat. At the time there was no way for them to know that they had actually been torpedoed by an Italian submarine, the Argo.) |
December 10, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Der Führer sprach zum Volk. |
(The Führer spoke to the people.) |
2. Weg zum Sieg - Gestaltung künftigen Friedens. |
(Path to victory - Shaping the future.) |
December 10, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Lodernde Feuermeere in London. |
(Blazing seas of fire in London.) |
2. Großangriff vom Abend bis zum Morgen - Rollende Einsätze sehr starker Verbände mit schwersten Bomben. |
(Major attack from evening to morning - waves of strong units with the heaviest of bombs.) |
Page published December 10, 2021 |