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December 6, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "High Nazi Officer Shot In Paris" |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 8: Iron Cross For Man Who Sank H.M.A.S. Sydney" |
(Korvettenkapitän Theodor Detmers was awarded the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes [Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross] on Dec. 4th and promoted to Kapitän zur See in 1943 while a prisoner. He remained a prisoner and returned to Germany after the war. Due to poor health, he did not join the Deutsche Marine. He died in 1976.) |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Another German Raider Is Sunk By British in South Atlantic" |
(HMS Dorsetshire did not sink a raider, but a supply ship for the raiders and U-Boats. The unnamed ship was the freighter Python, which had on board survivors from the raider Atlantis, which was sunk by HMS Devonshire on Nov. 22. HMS Dorsetshire would join Python on the bottom of the sea on Apr. 5, 1942 when she was sunk by Japanese aircraft.) |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Churchill braucht einen Sündenbock. |
(Churchill needs a scapegoat.) |
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December 6, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Das alte Rezept auch in Nordafrika. |
(The old recipe also in North Africa.) |
2. England läßt seine Hilfsvölker für sich verbluten. |
(England lets her auxiliary peoples bleed to death for her.) |
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Page published December 6, 2022 |