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December 30, 1939: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "40 Dead, 150 Hurt In Italian Rail Crash" |
(This was the latest in a spate of deadly train crashes. In Germany there had been at least 8 massive train crashes and in the Port Arthur News below another crash is being reported today in Texas.) |
Also note the report in column 2: "Postcard Delivered After 28 Years" |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Torpedoed Battleship In Harbour" |
(The unnamed battleship was HMS Barham, which had been torpedoed by the German submarine U-30, the same boat that had sunk the passenger ship Athenia on Sept. 3rd.) |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report at top right: "Goering or Himmler May Go" |
(Both Göring and Himmler remained in their respective commands until the end of the war.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Reached Port After 12 Weeks Lost" |
(Just a small report which highlights the dangers of sea travel in the 1940's.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "France Has Sunk Nine U-boats" |
(To this point in the war only 9 U-boats had been sunk in total, and none of the by the French.) |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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December 30, 1939: Installment #6 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 30, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Neujahrsaufruf des Führers. |
(New Year's call from the Führer.) |
2. Den jungen Nationen die Zukunft. |
(The future for the nation's young.) |
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Page published Dec. 30, 2020 |