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August 20, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Submarine Lost" |
(The Admiralty announcing the loss of HMS Cachalot. The boat was sunk by the Italian destroyer Generale Achille Papa on July 30, 1941. Only one man of the crew was lost. The Italians had announced this earlier in the month.) |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "1,500,000 Nazi Casualties - Moscow Claim" |
(According to Radio Moscow, the Russian propaganda claim is that 1,500,000 Germans have been killed, wounded or captured. They also claim that they have destroyed 6,000 German tanks. According to Wikipedia German casualties during Operation Barbarossa from the dates June 22 to Dec. 5, 1941 were as follows; 186,542 killed 40,157 missing 655,179 wounded. Total: 881,878. During the same period the Germans lost 2,735 tanks, while the Russians lost 20,500 tanks.) |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 6: "War in 1943 if Necessary" |
(Just goes to show that not even the top leaders knew, or admitted how long the war would really last.) |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "New Leg Dropped For Legless Pilot" |
(Wing Commander Douglas Bader's new leg delivered.) |
Also note the photo of HMS Nelson at top right. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Paralysis Steps Lightly In Maine" |
(Five cases of infantile paralysis reported in Maine.) |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Ohnmacht der Sowjets im Schwarzen Meer. |
(Soviet impotence in the Black Sea.) |
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August 20, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Angriff gegen Odessa eingeleitet - Der Dnjeprbogen in deutscher Hand. |
(Attack launched against Odessa. The Dnieper bend in German hands.) |
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Unreported on this day: |
The Drancy concentration camp was opened northeast of Paris, France. First used to inter foreign Jews captured in France, it was later a collection point for French Jews. The camp was a transit point from where Jews were sent to Auschwitz and Sobibor and exterminated. From the time it opened until mid 1943, the French police, under the supervision of the Germans, were the camp guards, after which the SS took full control of the camp. |
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Page published August 20, 2022 |