World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday March 26, 1941
Day 573

March 26, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Meat Cut To 1s. Next Week"


March 26, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "R.A.F. May Drive Hitler to Vienna"
(Another absurd report made with no evidence to back it up. This time, Adolf Hitler is said to be preparing to move the capital from Berlin to Vienna, to avoid the R.A.F. bombings. The unidentified writer claims that the mass expulsion of Jews and Czechs from Vienna is proof that the move is anticipated. If expulsion of Jews were proof Hitler was planning to move the capital, there would have been many, many destinations that could have been chosen.)


March 26, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3: "Admiral H. Leutjens"
(The report is almost correct. Admiral Johann Günther Lütjens (not H. Leutjens) was in overall command of Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and was at this time in the North Atlantic on a very successful (from the German point of view) war cruise. Lütjens would later command another raiding cruise, this time made by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. That cruise would end with his death, just two days after his fifty-second birthday.)


March 26, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note installment number 3 of "Both Sides of the War" a multi-part series by United Press reporters Joe Alex Morris and Lyle C. Wilson.


March 26, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the headline report: "Nazis Warn U.S. Not To Interfere In Iceland"
(Sounds a lot like Vladimir Putin in 2022 warning the world not no interfere in Ukraine. Dictators all think alike.)


March 26, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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March 26, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Jugoslawiens Paktanschluss ein politisches Dünkirchen.
(Yugoslavia alliance with a political Dunkirk.)
2. Matsuoka heute abend in Berlin.
(Matsuoka in Berlin tonight.)


March 26, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Jubel um den Führer in Wien.
(Cheering for the Führer in Vienna.)
2. Der gesamte neutrale Balkan im Lager der Ordnung.
(The neutral Balkans in the camp of order.)



   
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