World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday February 1, 1941
Day 520

February 1, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 4: Meat Ration Stays At 1s. 2d."
[*Historical note: In February of 1941 the Germans began to force Polish Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto. When they were finished, about 72,000 Jews had been rounded up from the occupied areas of Poland.]


February 1, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the headline report: "Invasion, With Gas, Any Moment"
(The words of Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Frank Knox. These are the type of statements people make when they are scared, or want to scare others. While there were many hundreds of tons of poison gas munitions manufactured (by all nations) none were used in combat during World War II.)


February 1, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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February 1, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Für jede Ortsgruppe ein Gemeinschaftshaus.
(A community house for each local group.)
2. Treffer auf oellager in Southampton.
(Hit on oil depot in Southampton.)


February 1, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Führer=Rede zerteilt den britischen Bluff.
(Führer's speech cuts through the British bluff.)



   
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