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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Reports of Russian Atrocities" |
(I do not know if this was an accurate report or not.) |
Also note the report at bottom left: "Doric Star Sunk By German Raider" |
(The report, like all reports of the day, credited the sinking to the German cruiser Admiral Scheer, but the ship was actually sunk by the Admiral Graf Spee.) |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Jewish Reservation Protest" |
Also note the reports in column 4: "Not At War With Finland" and "Russia Friend Of The Finns" |
(More absurd statements from the Communists in Russia.) |
Also note the report in column 7: "Loss of 30 U-boats Certain" |
(The certainty expressed was false, to this point only nine U-boats had been sunk.)
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December 5, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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| (Note the photo at top left, the U-boat crewmen are probably from U-35.) |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the headline: "Kuhn Is Given 2 To 5 Years In Prison" |
(The end result of the trial of the so-called American Führer.) |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Vidette-Messanger, Valparaiso, Indiana. |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 5, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Erfolgreicher deutscher Kreuzerkrieg im Südatlantik. |
(Successful German cruiser war in the South Atlantic.) |
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Page published Dec. 5, 2020 |