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June 17, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "The Loss Of The Glorious" |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4-5: "Lindbergh Changes Tune" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Communist Party Declared Illegal" |
(The communist party and nine other organizations outlawed in Australia.) |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Churchill Says Britain To Fight Alone" |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Soviet Troops Occupy Estonia" |
(The report also states that Latvia had been invaded on the same day. This completed the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States.
Only after hundreds of thousands of their people had been murdered by the Soviet communists and the Nazis, after tens of thousands of their people had been imprisoned in Soviet gulags and others deported and used as slave labor around the Soviet states, and after forty-nine years had passed, the people of the Baltic States would be free again.)
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star "Extra", Washington, D.C. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Ark of Juneau Ends 1200-Mile Jaunt to Alaska" |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Schweizer Grenze erreicht. |
(Swiss border reached.) |
2. Maginotlinie samt französischen Heerswaffen abgeriegelt. |
(Maginot Line sealed off with cache of French army weapons |
3. Fortschreitende Auflösung der französischen Armeen. |
(Progressive dissolution of the French armies.) |
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June 17, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Fluchtwege aus der Maginotlinie abgeschnitten. |
(Escape routes for Maginot Line cut off.) |
2. Vormarsch vom Kanal bis zur Schweizer Grenze. |
(Advance from the Channel to the Swiss border.) |
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Page published June 17, 2021 |
