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May 9, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the headline: "Men From 19-36 To Be Called Up" |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Soldiers Seize Ship To Return From Norway" |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Evidence That Bremen Is Sunk" |
(The report was completely untrue, like all reports of Bremen having been sunk or captured.) |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of The Melbourne Argus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Slayer Seeks Death as Fifth Victim Dies" |
(This is a follow-up report on the mass shooting at South Pasadena Junior High School.) |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 3: "German Press Charges Webb Miller Slain" |
(German propaganda attempting to start a rumor that the British Secret Service murdered Mr. Miller. It is unclear if this was one of Goebbels' Big Lies because the entries in his diary for May 1940 were never found.) |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Long Live Mr. Chamberlain Is Nazis' Official Reaction" |
(This is rather a strange report, because it seems to indicate that the Germans preferred Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister over Winston Churchill. The strange part is that that is exactly how the Germans felt. The Germans genuinely feared Churchill. Why they would telegraph this to the enemy is unclear to me. I am sure there was some kind of strategy behind it, but I was unable to locate anything written by the Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels, as the entries in his diary for the month of May was never found.) |
Also note the report at bottom right: "Officials Seek Motive In Strange Case Of Prof. Allyn" |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Three Year Old Scratch by Cat Results in Death" |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Feindliches U-Boot durch Bombentreffer vernichtet. |
(Enemy submarine destroyed by bombs.) |
2. 7000-Tonnen-Transporter versenkt. |
(7,000 ton transport sunk.) |
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May 9, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Entrüstungsstürme gegen Chamberlian. |
(Storm of indignation against Chamberlain.) |
Note the photo at top right of the Italian battleship Littorio, which had just been commissioned. |
| [More about Littorio here.] |
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Page published May 9, 2021 |
