World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, October 11, 1941
Day 772

October 11, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 3: "Rome Has a Ghost Voice, Too"


October 11, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 2: "Tragic Toll Of Jews"
(A report from the Polish news agency in London states that in July there were 4,755 deaths in Warsaw and that 3,450 of those were Jews. This makes the Jewish death rate some 40 times higher than that of Aryans. An unidentified neutral diplomat, who was recently in Warsaw, is quotes as saying that "the Germans are trying to exterminate the Jews.")


October 11, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 7: "Historic Old Gun Sold For Junk"
(A gun from the frigate USS Constitution, which had been given to the state of Ohio, was sold as scrap for $29.40. A second gun had been stolen three months earlier.)


October 11, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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October 11, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Verzweifelte Aufrufe des Kreml.
(Desperate calls from the Kremlin.)


October 11, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Schwertsieg brach der Wahrheit die Bahn.
(The sword victory broke the ground of truth.)
2. Auch die Lügenfront zusammengebrochen.
(The front of lies collapsed too.)
3. London: Das Empire und die USA. stehen nun allein.
(London: The Empire and the United States. now stand alone.)



   
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