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December 17, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "Bombs Kill 6 At Paris Gestapo" |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "U-Boats' Outrage" |
(The account of the sinking of the Spanish ship Badalona was described by the U-Boat commander in different terms. His war diary states that the ship would not stop when ordered to and therefore forfeited its neutrality by breaking the prize rules. Which story is true, well...) |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 1: "They Clung to Boat's Keel For 5 Days" |
(The unnamed ship was the freighter Embassage, which was sunk by U-557 on Aug. 27, 1941. More on U-557 in the Völkischer Beobachter below.) |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Submarine Missing" |
(HMS Tetrarch reported as missing. The boat sailed from Malta for Gibraltar on Oct. 26, was in contact with HMS P-34 on Oct. 27 and was never heard from again.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Paris Explosion - Dynamite in Restaurant" |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Lost Six Million In Russia" |
(The Russians, as usual, are the source for this false report. They have now raised the number by 1.2 million since their last report on Dec. 12th. According to Wikipedia, the German casualties for Operation Barbarossa from June 22, 1941 until Dec. 5, 1941 were: 186,542 killed 40,157 missing 655,179 wounded. Total: 881,878.) |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Deutsches U-Boot versenkt Britenkreuzer. |
(German submarine sinks British cruiser.) |
[This would be the German version of the sinking of HMS Galatea by U-557 on Dec. 15th. What the report does not say is that U-557 was sunk with all hands on Dec. 16th. The sinking was an accident, it was rammed by an Italian torpedo boat in error.] |
2. Knox und die Schlacht bei Hawai. |
(Knox and the Battle of Hawaii.) |
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December 17, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Kühnes Landungsunternehmen auf Britisch-Borneo. |
(Bold landing operation in British Borneo.) |
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Page published December 17, 2022 |