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December 23, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of the Cambridge Daily News, Cambridge, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Another Reich Rail Smash" |
Also note the report in column 6: "R.A.F. Honour Dead Nazi Airman" |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of the Evening Telegraph, Dundee, Scotland. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the headline: "Nazi Grand Admiral Resigns" |
(This report states that the information comes from an "unimpeachable source." Perhaps the writer, after this false report was published around the world, had his source impeached. Großadmiral Erich Raeder had not resigned. He did however resign in Jan. of 1943 after a disagreement with Hitler.) |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Hitler Speaks" |
(Announcing a ten installment of excerpts from a book by Dr. Hermann Rauschnigg.) |
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December 23, 1939: Installment #1 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Glorious Bluff Destroyed Graf Spee: Only Two Cruisers Waiting" |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist newspaper.) |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the sub-headline: "Dies Says West Coast Alive With Agitators" |
(More about the Dies Committee investigation of communist activities in the U.S.A. Note that the movie industry and the CIO union are both mentioned as institutions infiltrated by communists.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Life Is Ended" |
(The announcement of the death of the aircraft designer Anthony Fokker.) |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of the Times-Herald, Olean, New York. |
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| (I guess at least one editor was tired of endless death and gloom.) |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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December 23, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Dr. Goebbels über des Reiches Ringen um seine Existenz. |
(Dr, Gobbels on the Reich's struggle for existence.) |
2. Deutsche Gedanken zur Kriegsweihnacht. |
(German thoughts on war at Christmas time.) |
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Page published Dec. 23, 2020 |