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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette, Sunderland, England. |
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Note the story in the right hand column:"British Ship Sunk by Armed Raider." |
(These were the first reports of a German warship operating in the South Atlantic. The ship sunk, SS Clement, was the first ship sunk by the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.) |
| [More about SS Clement here.] |
| [More about Admiral Graf Spee here.] |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Russia Demands Pact With Latvia" |
| Also note the headline about "Duce" |
(Il Duce was the official title [much shortened] of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. In Italian Duce means leader, just as in German the word Führer means leader.) |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Salt Lake City Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazis Quiz Churchill Over Radio" And photo "Where? Asks Germany-Britain Silent" |
How the "German voice" managed to hijack a BBC radio broadcast is unknown to me. But the broadcast was nothing more than Nazi propaganda designed to sow doubt in the minds of the British public. Churchill in his infinite wisdom ignored the request of the German. The German understood that there were enough people who would believe the lie and this would help to cause division in England. To answer the Germans questions; HMS Ark Royal was not damaged during the air attack, and on this date was at Scapa Flow preparing to sortie into the South Atlantic, a fact, which for obvious reasons, would have been foolish for the British to reveal. Athenia was in fact sunk by U-30, it was the first British ship sunk in World War II. The confusion about the German submarine commander is just that, confusion or miscommunication on behalf of the Admiralty. |
| [More about HMS Ark Royal here.] |
| [More about Athenia here.] |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 3: "68 Killed In Mexican Mine" |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah. |
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October 2, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Deutsch-italienische Berantungen in Berlin. |
(German-Italian conference in Berlin.) |
2. Letztes Nest polnische Widerstandes gefallen. |
(Last nest of Polish resistance has fallen.) |
3. Bedingungslose Ubergabe Helas. |
| (Unconditional surrender of Helas. [Hel, Poland] |
| 4. Erste deutsche Truppen in Warschau eingerüdt. |
| (First German troops enter Warsaw.) |
| 5. Der Führer zeichnete die Oberbefehlshaber des Feldzuges in Polen aus. |
| (The Führer honors the General Staff of the Polish campaign.) |
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Page published Oct. 2, 2020 |