World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday Sept. 11, 1940
Day 377

Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in column 7: "Warsaw's Heroic Mayor Executed - Mass Executions For Sabotage"
(This may not be true, but what was true is that Stefan Starzynski did not survive the war. Exactly when the Germans executed him is not known.)


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Spitfire Fund Grows To £4480"


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the headline: "Churchill Warns Of Invasion"
(The German propaganda had worked, even on the Prime Minister. Although in a cabinet meeting he was quoted as saying, Hitler may not invade at all.)


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 5: "Nationality Code Is New"
[The report is concluded here.]


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the headline: "Invasion Is At Hand, Churchill Warns"
[The report is concluded here.]


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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(Click below for part three of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by John Steinbeck.)
[Click here to read Part three of "Our Country"]


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Tragedy Here Recalls That Bersanti's Brother Killed Wife, Himself In Anaconda"


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Feiger Uberfall auf Berliner Innenstadt.
(Cowardly attack on center of Berlin.)
2. Fernkampfgeschütze greifen ein - Göring dankt Hamburgs Luftschutz.
(Long range guns intervene - Göring thanks Hamburg's air raid protection.)
3. Bomben auf Reichstag und Kunstakademie.
(Reichstag and the art academy bombed.)


Sept. 11, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Vernichtungskampf geht weiter.
(The battle of annihilation continues.)



   
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