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October 3, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "B.B.C. German Hearers Are Sleepless - They Worry So, Says Goebbels" |
(Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels, reminding the German public that the death penalty is a possibility if they listen to foreign radio broadcasts.) |
Also note the report in column 8: "57 More Czechs Are Executed" |
Also note the report at bottom left: "More Sugar, Fat for All: Heavy Workers to Get Double Meat Portions in Canteens" |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Hull Man's U-Boat In Britain" |
(The unidentified U-boat was U-570. It was on its first war patrol, was forced to the surface and surrendered. It was towed into port and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph. Used by the RN for testing, it was wrecked Mar. 20, 1944 and abandoned.) |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Reign of Murder - More Czechs to Die" |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Hitler Left to Decide Fate of Czech Premier" |
(General Alois Eliás was the Nazi puppet Prime Minister of Bohemia and Moravia. He was arrested for anti-Nazi activity on Sept. 27, 1941. He was convicted and sentenced to death by the Germans and was executed on June 19, 1942.) |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Six Paris Synagogues Blown Up" |
Also note the report in column 3: "18,000 War-Time Road Deaths" |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photo at bottom: "New Battleship's Guns" |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Nazis Sentence Mayor Of Prague to Death In Rebellion Plot" |
(Unlike the Puppet Prime Minister Eliás,
Mayor Otakar Klapka, was tried, convicted and executed on Oct. 4, 1941.)
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Bisher fast 14 Millionen BRT. versenkt - Der britische Tonnageschwund im Monat September. |
(So far almost 14 million GRT sunk - The British tonnage drop in the month of September.)
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[The report is not claiming that there has been a reduction in British shipping capacity of 14 million tons in September.] |
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October 3, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. USA.-Admiral zieht die Bilanz der Atlantikschlacht -Ein Viertel der Welttonnage vernichtet. |
(USA.-Admiral takes stock of the Battle of the Atlantic -A quarter of the world's tonnage destroyed.) |
2. Im Monat September wieder 683.400 BRT. versenkt. |
(In the month of September again 683,400 GRT. sunk.) |
[As usual the Germans inflate the numbers. In Sept. 1941 British merchant ship losses by all causes were; 57 ships at 214,664 tons This figure does not include non-British, neutral or warships.] |
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Page published October 3, 2022 |
