World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday February 4, 1941
Day 523

February 4, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "Who Is He? - Lost Child Found In Nottingham"
(One of the terrible side-effects of bombing cities. This was far more common in Germany and especially the countries invaded by Germany.)


February 4, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in column 2: "700 Polish Priests Shot by Nazis"


February 4, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Niemoeller Reported Converted To Catholicism in Nazi Prison"
(The report was not true. Niemöller remained a Lutheran until his death in 1984. He was a U-boat commander in the Great War and in the 1930's he supported the Nazis. Like many, he became disillusioned with Hitler and the Nazis and was imprisoned at Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps for his views from 1937 to 1945. He was an anti-Semite, but, after spending eight years in the camps, being treated like the Jews, he changed his view. In 1946, perhaps as a small apology, he wrote the following;

"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
)
 
Also note the report in column 4: "Batista Arrests Military Chiefs To Smash Plot"


February 4, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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February 4, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Kunstfälschungs=Sensation in Barcelona.
(Sensational art forgery in Barcelona.)
2. Erfolgreicher Handelskrieg aller Waffen.
(All weapons successful in trade war.)


February 4, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Londons neueste Parole - Vernichtung Deutschlands im Auftrage Gottes!
(London's newest slogan - Destruction of Germany by order of God!)
2. "News Chronicle": Die Bibel in einer Hand, den Dolch in der anderen und kein Kopmromiß.
("News Chronicle": Bible in one hand, dagger in the other, and no compromise.)



   
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