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December 21, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Will Ciano Go?" |
(Not now, but in 1943 Ciano was one of the men who helped remove Mussolini from power. After Mussolini reorganized a new govtvernment, he had Ciano executed on Jan. 11, 1944.) |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Death For Insults to Fuehrer" |
(Dutch citizens who insult Hitler or the honor of Germany could face execution.) |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "U-Boat Said To Have Sunk 40 Ships" |
(More about this in the Völkischer Beobachter below.) |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Unterstützung englischer Spionage durch USA-Diplomaten. |
(U.S. diplomats support English espionage.) |
2. Bomben auf historische Bauten in Berlin. |
(Bombs hit historic buildings in Berlin.) |
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December 21, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Kapitänleutnant Schepke versenkte 40 Feindschiffe. |
(Kapitänleutnant Schepke sank 40 enemy ships.) |
[The report was almost true. He had sunk 37 ships, and damaged 4 others for a total tonnage of just over 177,000 tons. He would not add another ship to his tally however, Joachim Schepke and his U-100 were sunk on Mar. 17, 1941.] |
2. Der dritte U-Boot-Kommandant mit über 200.000 vernichteten Bruttoregistertonnen. |
(Third submarine commander with over 200,000 GRT destroyed.) |
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Page published December 21, 2021 |