World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, August 23, 1941
Day 723

August 23, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Son Killed - Another Missing - Mother Gives Bomber To Carry on the Work"
(Lady MacRobert paid a heavy price, but she bought a Sterling Bomber to help the war effort. She lost one son, Sir Alastair Workman MacRobert, Bt. in an airplane crash in 1938. A second son, Flight-Lieutenant Sir Roderick Alan MacRobert, Bt., RAF, of 94 Squadron RAF, was killed on May 22, 1941. A third son, Pilot Officer Sir Iaian Workman MacRobert, Bart., RAF, of 608 Squadron, RAF, listed as missing in the report, was in fact killed on June 30, 1941.)


August 23, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 7: "Ribbentrop Removed - Moscow Report"
(Moscow reports that Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hjalmar Schacht, Reichminister of Economics, were all removed from office. The only one ever arrested by the Nazis was Schacht, but that was not until after the July 20, 1944 [Operation Valkyrie] attempt on Hitler's life. After that, he spent the rest of the war in various concentration camps, until liberated in 1945. He was exonerated of any war crimes and died in 1940.)
Also note the report in column 7: "Secret Flight From Berlin"
(Another report from Radio Moscow, this time they are claiming that the German government was leaving Berlin. Just like most all reports from Moscow, this never happened. There are at least two other reports from Moscow on the front page on this paper, making it the most inaccurate paper on this page.)


August 23, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 5: "Moscow Says: Hitler's Epilepsy Worse"
(Another childish lie from the communist Russians published in the western press. There is no evidence that Hitler had epilepsy.)


August 23, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 7-8: "New Treatment In Paralysis Demonstrated"
(Nursing Sister Elizabeth Kenny, from Australia, is in Minnesota demonstrating her technique in treating paralysis. There is still a Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota today. Also in the report, 27 new cases of sleeping sickness and 13 cases of polio are reported.)


August 23, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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August 23, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Neue Erfolge an der Ostfront.
(New successes on the Eastern Front.)


August 23, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Zahlen von unfaßbarer Größe - Gewaltige Erfolge in zwei Monaten Ostkrieg.
(Numbers of incomprehensible size - Two months of tremendous successes in the war in the east.)



   
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