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November 23, 1939: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Hitler Said To Have Married" |
(Another strange report of completely false information.) |
Also note the report in column 7: "Hundreds Die In Earthquake" |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "1,700 Die in Czech Reign of Terror" |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "The Truth About the Ark Royal's Escape" |
(A very embellished version of an incident which actually happened.) |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Grimsby, England. |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "French Sink 2 U-boats" |
(Only one U-boat was sunk in the month of November 1939, and that not until the 29th. Up to this point in the war the French had not sunk a single German U-boat, but this story would be published around the world.) |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Victims Of Nazi Cruelty" |
(This is an eyewitness account of the treatment of Czech students which has been in the news for the last few days.) |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 8: "More than 20 U-boats Sunk" |
(While this may have been the belief on the part of the Admiralty, in reality only seven U-boats had been sunk to date. It is difficult to determine if a submarine had been sunk in an attack, unless there are some survivors plucked from the sea and every nation overestimated the number of submarines they had sunk during the war.) |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Regina Man Admits Seeking to Offer Invention to Nazis" |
Also note the report in column 5: "Bund Leader Admits Lying to Shield Woman He Once Had Called Golden Angel" |
(This is the ongoing trial of Fritz Kuhn, the so-called American Führer.) |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the sub-headline: "First Thanksgiving Observed in 25 States" |
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November 23, 1939: Installment #12 of "Stalin Unmasked" from the San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas. |
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November 23, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Wie die Verräter arbeiteten. |
(How the traitors operated.) |
2. Französischer Angriff bei Pirmasens abgeschlagen. |
(French attack at Pirmasens repulsed.) |
3. Siegreiche Luftkampfe beweisen Uberlegenheit unserer Luftwaffe. |
(Victorious air battles prove the superiority of our Luftwaffe.) |
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Page published Nov. 23, 2020 |