World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, January 27, 1940
Day 149

January 27, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 27, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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January 27, 1940: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England.
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January 27, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 5: "Those Peace-Loving Nazis"


January 27, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 5: "Gestapo's Cruelty"


January 27, 1940: Front page of The Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "Nazi Ban On Radio Tightened"
(The Nazi State decides what you are allowed to hear and what source you are allowed to listen to. A German citizen could even be given the death penalty for listening to a radio broadcast which was not approved of by the State. Complete control of what is allowed to be heard, can a parallel be drawn to anything happening today? Well think of how twitter, facebook, google, apple, instagram and amazon have colluded to shut down free speech in the U.S.A. all under the guise of the "betterment" of the country. Their stated goal is for them to decide what is true and what is not, who can participate in speech and who cannot, what can be said and what cannot, what you can read and what you cannot. Their attitude is decidedly anti-American and completely totalitarian. What will they do next? Perhaps they will decide that a segment of the population needs to be "deprogrammed" or something like that.

The below report from the Press and Journal makes how a totalitarian system operates even clearer. Note that is states "Germans had been WARNED TO LISTED TO Dr. Schirmer" and how even music was included under the ban. The last sentence is most poignant, "Any person who HAPPENS to hear foreign news involuntarily should either turn the radio off himself OR REPORT IT" Presumably to the Gestapo. That sentence should terrify any free person, and anyone currently involved in repressing free speech should be viewed with a very suspicious eye.)
 


January 27, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 1: "Nazi Cruelty In Poland"


January 27, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 27, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 27, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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January 27, 1940: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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Note the report at top right: "America Warns Japanese Must Respect Rights"


January 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 2: "Eddie Albert Thought Lost"
(Of course we all know he was not.)


January 27, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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January 27, 1940: Installment #12 of "Four Years Against Hitler" from the Press and Journal.
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January 27, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Was die Kriegserzeugungsschlacht fordert.
(What the war generating battle demands.)


January 27, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. 20000 To. an einem Tage versenkt.
(20,000 tons sunk in a single day.)
2. Keine deutschen Truppen in Russisch-Galizien.
(No german troops in Russian-Galacia.)



   
Page published January 27, 2021