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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Four British Vessels Long Overdue Now Considered Lost" |
(The four ships are Ashlea, Newton Beech, Huntsman and Trevanion had been sunk by the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee. All of the crews had been taken prisoner, there were no fatalities. |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Polish Bishops Arrested" |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Reds Hurt by Nazi Aid to Finns" |
(In fact the Germans were not supplying arms to Finland, nor were they facilitating the deliveries. The Italians were doing this on their own.] |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Hobart Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report at top right: "Three U-boats Sunk In 24 Hours" |
(A wonderful accomplishment, if it were true. Only one U-boat was sunk in the month of December 1939, and that on Dec. 4th.) |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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Note the headline: "Reds Use Women Prisoners To Blow Up Land Mines" |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Jewish Movement To Give Aid To Refugees" |
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December 11, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Weihnachtsfeiertage unverändert. |
(Christmas holidays unchanged.) |
2. Wiedereröffnung der Hansischen Universität. |
(Reopening of the Hanseatic University.) |
3. Schärfster sowjetrussischer Protest. |
(Sharpest Soviet Russian protest.) |
4. So photographierten deutsche Aufklärer. |
(This is what German reconnaissance photos look like.) |
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Page published Dec. 11, 2020 |