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December 12, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Eaton College Bombed" |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "New Battleships for Nazis" |
(Report claims Bismarck and Tirpitz were both active in the Kriegsmarine. This report was half true. Bismarck had been commissioned Aug. 24, 1940, but was still working up in the Baltic, Tirpitz was still fitting out and was not commissioned until Feb. 25, 1941.) |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 1: "President Continues Cruise After Picking Up Mail" |
(Just keeping the enemy up to date about the movements of the President of the United States.) |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Churchills Propagandist lügt in USA. - Iammern oder Optimismus - je nach Publikum. |
(Churchill's propagandist lies in USA. Whining or optimism - depending on the audience.) |
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December 12, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Kinderbeihilfe vom dritten Kind an. |
(Child allowance from the third child onwards.) |
Note the photo of HMS Carnarvon Castle at top right.) |
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Page published December 12, 2021 |