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December 14, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Destroyers Beat Duce's Cruisers" |
(Both cruisers, Albercio da Barbiano and Albertro di Giussano, were sunk by HM warships and a Dutch warship.) |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 4: "100 Frenchmen To Be Shot" |
(General Otto von Stülpnagel signed the order to execute a hundred Jews, communists and anarchists and to impose a fine of one thousand million (one billion) francs [about£5,680,000] on Jews in occupied territories following attempts against German troops. Further to that, a large number of "Jewish Bolshevik criminal elements" will be sent to "penal servitude in the east." In other words, to the death camps in Poland. Otto von Stülpnagel, while he was the military commander of occupied France, had a difficult relationship with the Nazi hierarchy. Making numerous formal complaints about theft of art, treatment of the French and various other things, he finally resigned in 1942. He was replaced by his cousin Cark-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. Otto returned to Berlin, where he stayed until the end of the war. He was arrested by the Allies for war crimes [he had executed over 100 French civilians,] but he committed suicide before he could be tried.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Less Butter And Bacon" |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the headline report: "Dutch Submarines Score Off Coast of Malaya - Japs Lose 4 Troopships" |
(The report states that Dutch submarines sank four Japanese troopships. I have not been able to confirm this, but my database shows three Japanese freighters sunk by Dutch submarines on Dec. 12. However, a post war Japanese assessment does not confirm these sinkings.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Claims 3rd U.S. Battleship Sunk" |
(Berlin radio, quoting Tokyo, claiming USS Arizona BB-39 was sunk "off Hawaii." The report of course was true, sadly the true damage was far worse. The U.S. had not yet told the nation just how bad the attack on Pearl Harbor was.) |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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December 14, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Das 5. Schlachtschiff von den Japanern versenkt. |
(5th battleship sunk by the Japanese.) |
2. Weitere harte Schläge gegen USA. Und England. |
(More heavy hits against USA. and England.) |
Note the photos of HMS Prince of Wales [top left] USS Arizona BB-39 [center] and HMS Ark Royal [bottom.] |
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Page published December 14, 2022 |