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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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(For the next few weeks the press were focused on the German invasion and occupation of Norway and Denmark. The papers are full of reports that are true, false, inaccurate and overblown. Along with propaganda, disinformation, misinformation and just plain lies. It would be far to time consuming for me to run down the truth or accuracy of these reports, so I have decided only to comment on the most obviously false or misleading reports. You will have to read these newspapers with the axiom "caveat lector" in mind.) |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Daily News, Perth Western Australia, Australia. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Bremen Sunk With 1300 Men Aboard?" |
(Since the beginning of the war, the western press was obsessed with the famous German liner Bremen. This report is completely false as Bremen was not involved with the German invasions. Bremen was in dock at Bremerhaven, Germany under repair and there were plans to use the ship, but she was set on fire on Mar. 16, 1941 and destroyed. The ship was scrapped during the war and the steel was used for the German war effort. Some of her hull, which was towed to a sandbar off Blexen, Germany in 1946, still remains where it was discarded.) |
Also note the sub-headline: "Unconfirmed Report States German Battleship Is Sunk" |
(The report states that the German battleship Gneisenau was sunk, which I can confirm was not true. In a later paragraph it is stated that "Previously an unidentified German warship had been reported driven ashore in the approaches to Oslo by Norwegian coastal batteries." This report was almost correct, the unnamed ship was the German cruiser Blücher, which was sunk (not driven ashore) in Oslofjord by gunfire and torpedoes fired from Oscarsborg Fortress. Casualty figures are not known, but were between 400 and 1,000 sailors and soldiers.) |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Blitzartige Antwort Deutschlands. |
(Lightning answer from Germany.) |
2. Das verbrecherische England ohne Maske. |
(The English criminals without a mask.) |
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April 9, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Deutsche Landung im Norden. |
(German landings in the north.) |
2. Kopenhagen seit 8 Uhr in unserer hand! |
(Copenhagen in our hands since 8 a.m.!) |
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Page published April 9, 2021 |