WW2 Tweets from 1942

WW2 Tweets from 1942

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5 months ago

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WW2 Tweets from 1942

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an hour ago

"If Day" has greatly encouraged Canadians to buy "Victory Loans". Watch video of the Wehrmacht in Winnnipeg:

WW2 Tweets from 1942

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an hour ago

New "Nazi" conquerors of Canada issue 10-point occupation plan in newspaper the Winnipeg Tribune (now renamed Das Winnipeger Lügenblatt): http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/13/ifday.shtml …

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an hour ago

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For "If Day", Canadian "Nazis" have occupied Winnipeg, arrested the Mayor, city officials, teachers & priests, burned books- & raised over $3 million by selling Canadian war bonds.

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an hour ago

Nazis have invaded Winnipeg, Canada- student volunteers dressed as German soldiers have captured the city, now renamed "Himmlerstadt", in a stunt to raise money for war effort:

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an hour ago

Japanese troops have massacred 74 Dutch prisoners of war in Borneo, beheading their captives in revenge for Dutch destruction of oil refineries before they could fall into Japanese hands.

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2 hours ago

With Singapore conquered & the Philippines besieged, Japanese troops are pouring into the Netherlands East Indies, smashing Dutch resistance:

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8 hours ago

More than half of Darwin's population have "gone bush": disappeared into Australia's outback, fleeing anticipated Japanese attack.

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8 hours ago

With hundreds dead to Japanese bombing in port of Darwin, fear of an invasion is spreading across Australia; government prepares population to fight back:

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a day ago

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Alastair Urquhart, British prisoner of war, is marched past "a thicket of severed Chinese heads, speared on poles on both sides of the road". War artist Ronald Searle captures the scene:

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a day ago

1000s of Singaporean men, women & children are being shot, beheaded, or used for live bayonet practice by Japanese troops:

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a day ago

Japanese are arresting all "potentially hostile" Chinese of Singapore: Communists, Nationalists, civil servants who worked for the British, tattooed, armed, or especially tall people.

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a day ago

As Japanese conquerors celebrate their victory with a march through Singapore, their murderous mass purge of the Chinese population has begun.

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a day ago

German occupiers of USSR institute slave labour decree: Hitler has ordered that conscripted Russians have no limits to working hours, German employers can beat them, & anyone who refuses to work should be executed.

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a day ago

Japanese conquerors are making Allied prisoners sweep streets of Singapore at gunpoint, as locals gather to watch "humiliation of the sahibs":

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a day ago

Fear of treachery from ethnically Japanese Americans is high; cartoonist Dr. Seuss illustrates "Honorable Fifth Column" waiting for signal from Japan to start attacking California, Washington & Oregon.

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a day ago

US President Roosevelt has signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing US military to deport persons of "enemy ancestry" to internment camps.

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a day ago

US government is secretly building concentration camps in the central states, planning to deport Japanese-Americans from coast, for fear of sabotage & spying.

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2 days ago

In panic, fearing the air raid is prelude to an incoming Japanese invasion, many inhabitants of Darwin & even some Australian soldiers are looting from bombsites & fleeing south.

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2 days ago

Japanese bombing has left Darwin port & city wrecked- 8 ships sunk, 200+ Australians dead, just 4 attacking planes shot down.

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2 days ago

Japanese bombs rain on Dawin Harbour; freighter Neptuna, loaded with TNT, explodes in a vast pillar of flame, killing 36 crew.