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October 27, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "Was Petain Hitler's Secret Weapon?" |
October 27, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Half The Axis Supply Ships To Libya Sunk Or Damaged" |
(I'm pretty sure this is incorrect, but enough of the traffic between Europe and North Africa was destroyed that it ultimately strangled Rommel's army and caused his retreat.) |
October 27, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report at top right: "French Stand Still As Protest Over Killings" |
October 27, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Finns Claim Two Soviet Destroyers Sunk" |
(I have no record of any Soviet destroyers sunk in October of 1941.) |
October 27, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Warship Claimed Sunk" |
(The Italians claim to have sunk a British cruiser, once again, this claim was not true.) |
(The newspaper has incorrectly labeled this as installment XVI, but it is in fact XIV.) |
October 27, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 7: "French Informers Tell Germans Who Killed Army Chief" |
Also note the report in column 2: "Accused Commies On Trial Today" |
(Trial of 28 communists accused of plotting to overthrow the USA.) |
October 27, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Disease Dooms the Fuehrer Says Man Who Saw Him" |
(John Cudahy, former American ambassador to Belgium, tells the Senate foreign relations committee that Adolf Hitler "looked as if he had a malignant disease" the last time he saw him.) |
October 27, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Sowjetische Rückzugstraßen bombardiert. |
(Soviets bombed as they retreat.) |
2. Jüdische Blutschuld findet ihre Sühne / Judas taten des Hasses. |
(Jewish bloodguilt finds its atonement / Judas acts of hatred.) |
October 27, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Großeinsatz der Luftwaffe an der ganzen Ostfront. |
(Large-scale deployment of the Luftwaffe on the entire Eastern Front.) |
Page published October 27, 2022 |