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09-01-2009, 02:15 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cracow
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| The first day of war in newspapers... ...
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09-01-2009, 08:19 AM
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| Pretty cool. Good post. |
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09-01-2009, 09:10 AM
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 | That cool  good post! |
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09-01-2009, 09:17 AM
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| I own a copy of the Volkischer Beobachter that you posted above. I own several including one from June 5, 1944 that talks about the allied landings.
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09-01-2009, 10:23 AM
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| That would be interesting to see. Good stuff.
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09-01-2009, 10:59 AM
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| That's cool. Thanks for sharing.
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09-01-2009, 12:06 PM
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| Pretty cool.
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09-01-2009, 04:50 PM
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| From my collection, The Call Bulletin (San Francisco) dated September 1, 1939. TO
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09-01-2009, 05:07 PM
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| Nice clippings V2 and TO. Wow, newspapers back then look a lot different than they do now. Can't believe it's already been 70 years since the war started.
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09-01-2009, 05:11 PM
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  | I collect old newspapers to this is awesome! GReat post v2!
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