Reprisals

Daily Express, 2 May 1942, 1
1940s, Air defence, Australia, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2, Radio, Reprisals

Saturday, 2 May 1942

All the newspapers today carry news of the meeting between Hitler and Mussolini in Salzburg; only the Daily Express leads with it. Its angle is that there is ‘STRONG evidence’ that the two dictators agreed that Italy would sent ‘a large part’ of its army to Russia, while Germany would send ‘thousands’ of its soldiers […]

1940s, Periodicals, Reprisals, Rumours

Vox pops — IV

Another source of information about public opinion on reprisals during the Blitz is hearsay — what people reported that other people thought. This can give us an insight into contemporary judgements of the public mood. But, as with letters to the editor, hearsay is highly problematic too. It’s only possible to get a good grasp

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