World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, November 15, 1941
Day 807

November 15, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Jews Mustn't Be Allowed To Talk, Says Goebbels"
(The Nazi propaganda minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, writes in Das Reich that Jews must be silenced in public. One of the reasons he gives, of course... "because they are Jews.")


November 15, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report at top right: "Nazis Claim Malaya Torpedoed"
(The sinking of HMS Ark Royal was not good enough for the Nazi propaganda minister, so he adds a falsehood, claiming that the battleship HMS Malaya had also been hit. This was not true, but to the people reading this report, who may have had a relative aboard, it must have caused great concern.)


November 15, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report in column6 5-6: "Four German Transports and Submarine Sunk"
(The daily propaganda blast from communist Moscow claims four German transports were sunk between Nov. 10 and 12. They also claim a U-Boat struck a mine and sank. The actual number of transports sunk was zero, but there was one U-Boat sunk, not by a Russian mine however, but in a collision with a target ship.)
Also note the report in columns 3-4: "Canned Food Rationing Postponed"


November 15, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "French Laws on Jews Extend to Colonies"


November 15, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in column 4: "Raid U-Boats"
(This is the first paragraph; "Intensified activity by British and United States naval patrols has resulted in the destruction of "many" German U-Boats in the Atlantic, naval quarters said today." In the second paragraph, the unidentified United Press writer states that the Germans have started a fresh U-Boat offensive, but they are being met by "highly successful action by the Anglo-American patrols." This article is proof that it was not only the Germans who used propaganda and lies to placate the public. There, up to this date, had been no U-Boats sunk by U.S. Naval forces. And the "highly successful" attacks which resulted in the destruction of "many U-Boats" had in face resulted in the destruction of no U-boats so far in the month of November of 1941. In fact, only four U-Boats had been sunk in combat in all of September and October of 1941. The two U-Boats lost up to this date in November, U-580 and U-583, were lost in collisions, not as a result of Anglo-American patrols. Only two U-Boats, U-433 and U-95, were sunk in combat in November of 1941, both were lost in the Mediterranean and of these two, U-95 was sunk by a Dutch submarine. Only one other U-Boat was lost in November of 1941, that was U-206, which sailed from St. Nazaire, France on Nov. 29, and was never heard from again.)


November 15, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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November 15, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Erkaufte Mehrheit in Washington.
(Bought majority in Washington.)
2. Mit 212 gegen 194 Sümmen zur Befahrung der Kriegszonen.
(With 212 against 194 votes to navigate the war zones.)


November 15, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Das ist des Pudels Kern - USA.-Profitpatrioten brauchen den Kreig.
(That's the heart of the matter - American Profit Patriots need the war.)
Historical note: On this day Adolf Hitler issued the following order;

In order to keep the SS and Police clean of vermin with homosexual inclinations, I hereby resolve:

I. For members of the SS and Police, the following sentences shall apply instead of subsections 175 and 175a of the Reich Penal Code: A member of the SS and Police who commits unnatural acts with another man or lets himself be abused for unnatural acts shall be punished with death. In less serious cases, penal servitude or imprisonment of not less than 6 months may be imposed. Where a member of the SS or Police was not yet 21 years of age at the time of the offences and was seduced into it, the court may, in especially minor cases, refrain from punishment.

II. Imposition of the sentences threatened under I is independent of the offender's age.

III. The crimes designated under I come under the jurisdiction of special SS and Police courts in accordance with the provisions applying to them. The competence of Wehrmacht courts-martial is not affected.

IV. The provisions necessary to enforce and supplement this decree shall be ordered by the Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.



   
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