World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday, October 11, 1939
Day 41

October 11, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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October 11, 1939: Front page of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Grimsby, England.
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October 11, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 11, 1939: Front page of The Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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October 11, 1939: Front page of the Medicine Hat News, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the story: "German Raider Hunted In South Atlantic"
(The ship operating in the South Atlantic was actually the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, not Admiral Scheer.)


October 11, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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October 11, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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October 11, 1939: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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Note the story in column 5: "Iroquois Due In N.Y. Today"
(The writer continues to perpetuate the false story that the Germans had warned the U.S. government that Iroquois was targeted for destruction. A story that was believed to have been false almost from the moment it was published. It was in fact a false story.)


October 11, 1939: Front page of The Big Spring Daily Herald, Big Spring, Texas.
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Note the story at bottom right: "35,000 Victims In Red Army Purge, Dies Committee Told"
(This was true, Stalin murdered almost all of the Red Army officer's corps because he feared their power.)


October 11, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Der Arbeitsplan des Kriegs.
(The work plan for the war.)
2. Zusatzhilfe bei allen Kriegs- Perfonenschäden.
(Additional help for all personal war injuries.)
3. Gemeinsame Operationen der Luft- und Seestreitkräfte im Nordseegebiet.
(Joint air and naval operations in the North Sea area.)



   
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