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Roosevelt to blame for the Pearl Harbor attack…

We often list on our website issues from the island of Guernsey during World War II when it was occupied by the Nazis.  As such all news is filtered through the German propaganda machine which offers interesting reading, as the reports are in English because the residents speak English.

Although many battles reports border on the absurd, particularly with historical hindsight, the front page report in the “Evening Press [1]” dated December 8, 1941, one day after the Pearl Harbor attack, is one of the more outrageous (see the photo below). [2]