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October 17, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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The sinking of HMS Royal Oak is still a top story of the day. |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of The Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette, Sunderland, England. |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the story at top right: "German Sub Heroes Given Iron Crosses" |
(The unnamed port U-47 returned to was Wilhelmshaven, Germany.) |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the story at bottom: "Fuehrer's Girl Friend Is Arrested By Nazis" |
(Leni Riefensthal was not Hitler's girlfriend and I am not able to find any information confirming that she had been arrested by the Nazis. It is possible however that she was detained by the Gestapo for some reason. In the paranoid Nazi state being arrested or detained was quite common. Especially if someone in power disliked you or thought that you were a threat to their power or position.) |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana. |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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October 17, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Nimbus der Unbesiegbarkeit schwindet: Scapa Flow-einmal anders. |
(The halo of invincibility is vanishing: Scapa Flow, once so different.) |
2. Deutsche Bomber über dem Firth of Forth. |
(German bombers over the Firth of Forth.) |
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Page published Oct. 17, 2020 |