In belgium we had these reissued news papers from the WW2 era.
I Just got the bunch of em and it's very strange to read them , considering I know all the aftermath intel, as it was written in the history books.
This is the way the people got their info as it happened. A lot of it was propaganda, or just not true, rumors.
Am just starting to read, the 18 day campaign when Germans overran Belgium (Holland capitulated in 6 or so days) we resisted a lot harder also because we knew Brits and French were getting involved to back us up, the Dutch had no such hopes because they were further up north.
The news papers then report all the reactions from abroad, about Roosevelt, Churchill, Argentina pledges it's sympathies to the brave Belgian people, all in all very comparable stuff you see in the news today when something bad happens to some country.
But it clearly shows a different story then what you get in the history books .
For instance this, Pacha Chicorei (it was some coffee replacement based on roasted plant, bitter taste, my grandma used it, and most people drank that instead of coffee during the war years)
The story goes that they thought the German paratroopers had secret instructions behind the metal advertisements.. so the news paper called up to take those advertisements away. Pretty interesting stuff to read how that all went down.
My question to the Pelican Brain trust : Does anybody know of any similar reissued War time News paper collections, for WW2 in either US or UK?? I'de be very interested in getting some of those to put next to the Belgian reissued for a complete multi side picture..