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September 6, 1939: Front page of The Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the headline: "Reported Bombing Of Berlin By The Poles" |
(This is a complete fabrication and was Polish propaganda intended to boost the morale of the Polish population.) |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the headline: "German Planes Beaten Off by Defences in East Coast Air Battle" |
(While there was an air battle, it was between British aircraft. The raid was a false alarm and the British pilots ended shooting down two of their own.) |
Note the Black-out time is in column 5. |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the North-Eastern Gazette, Middlesbrough, England. |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of The Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette, Sunderland, England. |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report at left: "Navy Opens War Upon Submarines U-boats Attacked In Several Places" |
(While it is possible single attacks were made on targets the pilots thought were U-boats, no U-boats were sunk. The first U-boat sunk in World War II was U-39, which was sunk on Sept. 14th.) |
Also note the photo at center. |
(This is a photo of a commemorative coin made in Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. The British took every opportunity to remind the public and the world of the sinking of Lusitania and how much the sinking of Athenia resembled that act. It is difficult to disagree with the British attitude considering Athenia was the first British ship sunk, it was unarmed, it was sunk without warning and it was torpedoed by a U-boat. With that in mind the British attitude was quite justified. It was not until after the war when German documents were captured that it was learned that the sinking of Athenia was an error and against Hitler's orders.) |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of The Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
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Note the report at center: "500 Now Reported Missing In Athenia Torpedoing' |
(A very exaggerated number, more on Athenia below.) |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the sub-headline: "Nazi Pocket Battleship Reported Sunk" |
(The story claims that Gneisenau was sunk at Wilhelmshaven, which was not true. Gneisenau, along with her sister ship, Scharnhorst, were anchored at Brunsbüttel and neither ship received any damage.) |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Japs Get Tough" |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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Note the report in columns 5 & 6: "Nazi Battleship Reported Sunk By British Planes" |
(The story claims that Gneisenau was sunk at Wilhelmshaven, which was not true. Gneisenau, along with her sister ship, Scharnhorst, were anchored at Brunsbüttel and neither ship received any damage.) |
| [More about Scharnhorst here.] |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of The Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, Ohio. |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the San Antonio Express, San Antonio, Texas. |
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Note the story: U.S. Ship Cuts Athenia Loss" |
(Athenia, an unarmed passenger ship, was the first British ship sunk in World War II. The ship was torpedoed without warning by U-30 on the day Britain declared war against Germany. The ship which picked up the survivors, the City of Flint, would make headlines around the world in late October when the German cruiser Deutschland captured the ship and sent it to Norway.) |
| [More about Athenia here.] |
| [Athenia Roll of Honour.] |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the Syracuse Herald Syracuse Journal, Syracuse, New York. |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow District, Germany. |
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1. Vorstoss auf Lodz. |
(Advance on Lodz.) |
2.Sturm aug Krakau. |
(Assault on Kraków.) |
3. Bromberg genommen - 10 000 polnische Gefangene. 60 Gschütze erbeutet. |
(Bydgoszcz [Poland] captured, 10,000 Polish prisoners taken, 60 guns captured.) |
4. Oberschlesiem ist frei. |
(Upper Silesia is free.) |
5. Die Morde des amtlichen Polens. |
(The official murderers of Poland.) |
6. Neue polnische Lüge entlarvt. |
(New Polish lie exposed.) |
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September 6, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Amerikaner entlarot Tschenstochau-Lüge. |
(American's expose the lie of Czestochowa.) [This probably refers to the Sept. 4 murder of hundreds of Poles and Jews from the city.] |
2. This headline is a repeat from the above newspaper. |
(The remaining headlines are mostly sub-headlines for the stories.) |
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Page published Sept. 6, 2020 |