World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday, November 7, 1941
Day 799

November 7, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "New 10% Milk Cut Next Week"


November 7, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in column 4: "Sunk Jap Liner: Protest to Russia"
(The Kehi Maru, was sunk by a Japanese mine killing about 131.)


November 7, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 3: "Sick Elephants Fight For Life As Circus Leaves"
[See "Fatal Poisoning Threatens Circus Elephants" in the Biddeford Daily Journal of Nov. 6, 1941.]


November 7, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 4: "President Sidetracks Query on U-Boats Sunk by U.S. Navy"
(FDR shut down a question by an unidentified reporter, who claimed that a "high naval authority" told him that U.S. warships had sunk 42 subsurface raiders. Roosevelt asked who the "high naval authority" was, but was told by the reporter that his office had not told him. Roosevelt's response to the reporter was to say "that was a grand story." Roosevelt knew the truth, that no German U-Boats had been sunk by U.S. Naval forces.)
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "Inferno Awaits Reich if War Is Lost, Goebbels Writes"
(One of the few times the propaganda minister was right.)


November 7, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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November 7, 1941: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida.
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Note the report in column 4: "Jews Are First Victims As Nazis Ravage Russia"


November 7, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in column 2: "Nazis Claim Russ Losses 7,000,000"
(The report claims from 7 to 8 million Russians killed, captured, or put out of action. In yesterday's papers, Josef Stalin claimed that 4.5 million German soldiers had been killed, captured or were missing, so I assume the Germans, not wanting to be outdone by a Russian lie, tell one of their own in today's papers.
According to Wikipedia, the total casualty figures for Operation Barbarossa from June 22, 1941 until Dec. 5, 1941 were:

German casualties;
186,542 killed
40,157 missing
655,179 wounded.
Total: 881,878.

Russian casualties;
566,852 killed
235,339 died of non-combat causes.
1,336,147 sick or wounded in combat and non-combat.
2,335,482 missing or captured.
Total: 4,473,820.)


November 7, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Das Sowjet-Dünkirchen auf der Krim.
(The Soviet Dunkirk in Crimea.)


November 7, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Washington entfacht Unterseeboot-Panik.
(Washington sparks U-Boat panic.)
[It might be more accurate to say the Washington press attempt to create U-Boat panic.]



   
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