Völkischer Beobachter Front Pages: April 1942.

Background: This page is part of a larger project to trace the history of World War II as reflected in the headlines of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party’s daily newspaper. The images come from ANNO, that Austrian project to digitize the nation’s newspapers.

April 1942 was a mixed one for the Nazis. Submarine warfare was going well. The Allies had difficulties. But German cities were coming under increasing bombing and the Soviet Union showed no signs of collapse.

Völkischer Beobachter: April 1942

	1 April 1942 Misery in the USA Roosevelt Has to Pump Up War Morale The War Is Going Differently than the Babbits Expected
	2 April 1942 Bose’s Urgent Warning to His People India to Become a British Battlefield “Who voluntarily cooperates with England is a Traitor” ________________________ Bose was an Indian nationalist who worked with Germany and Japan during World War II.
	3 April 1942 Enemy Shipping Keeps Melting Away 646,900 BRT Sunk in March 400,600 BRT in January, 535,400 in February
	4 April 1942 Bloody Losses of Enemy Naval Forces 41 Warships Sunk in Two Months 31 Vessels, including 10 Cruisers, Damaged
	5 April 1942 The German Soldier Has Surpassed Himself Stalin’s Winter Assault a Bloody Failure! 104,000 Prisoners, 2720 Aircraft, 2167 Tanks, 2519 Artillery
	7 April 1942 Soviets Thrown Out of 69 Localities on the Central Front Air Attacks on Moscow and Rybinsk
	8 April 1942 Cripps Delays his Declarations for the Third Time India Will Be under Greater Pressure Halifax Threatens the Indian Parties with Force
	9 April 1942 Shrinking Shipping — Shrinking Living Space Enemy SOS Calls from the Indian Ocean to New York Another 104,000 BRT Sunk by German Submarines
	10 April 1942 Japanese Successes in the Indian Ocean Two Heavy British Cruisers and 140,000 BRT Sunk 23 Merchant ships of 120,000 BRT Heavily Damaged
	11 April 1942 A Blow for Roosevelt — A Blow for Churchill 60,000 USA Troops Surrender British Aircraft Carrier and Two Cruisers Sunk New Japanese Successes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
	12 April 1942 Since the First German U-Boat Attacks 214 Ships with 1.452 Million BRT Sunk in USA Waters The Enemy Tanker Fleet Alone Lost 642,000 BRT
	13 April 1942 After the Failure of Mission Cripps Bitter Disappointment in London and Washington India Declines the Role of Cannon Fodder
	14 April 1942 Failure in India Sobers the Plutocrats “The Good Old Days are Ending” Churchill and Roosevelt Complain about Lost Cannon Fodder
	15 April 1942 So Far in April 350,000 BRT of Enemy Shipping Destroyed Built in Six Months — Sunk in Two Weeks Major New Successes of German U-Boats and Luftwaffe in the Atlantic
	16 April 1942 Growing Unrest in the USA about the Course of the War Roosevelt speaks of a “War of Survival”
	17 April 1942 Surrounded Soviet Forces on the Central Front Destroyed Heavy Bombs Fall on Sunderland Docks
	18 April 1942 “Fifth Column” as Pretext for the Egyptianization of South America Roosevelt Orders a Wave of Arrests in Ecuador
	19 April 1942 Six Months of German U-Boats in the Mediterranean England’s Mediterranean Fleet Forced into the Defensive 1 Battleship, 1 Aircraft Carrier, and 19 Vessels Sunk
	20 April 1942 The German People Pays Homage to the Führer
	21 April 1942 In the Arctic Sea, Atlantic, and Mediterranean: A Further 143,000 BRT of Enemy Shipping Destroyed Sharp attacks by our U-Boats against Enemy Power Plants and Oil Depots
	22 April 1942 “The Front’s Sacrifices Can Never Be Repaid by the Homeland” The Führer Opens the Red Cross Winter Relief Campaign
	23 April 1942 Plutocratic Brains Realize: “This War is a Damned Serious Business” Roosevelt’s Confident’s Impressions in London
	24 April 1942 Roosevelt Also Emasculates England Militarily London Declares: War Leadership Is in Washington
	25 April 1942 Germany’s Armaments Lead No Longer Be Matched Funk Announces a Reordering of the Commercial Economy Summary of Leadership in the Gau Economic Chambers
	26 April 1942 “The Fateful Hour of the British Empire Approaches” England No Longer Trusts Its Own Strength
	27 April 1942 Only One Thought: Victory! The Führer’s Compelling Call to the German People Adolf Hitler Pays Homage to the Loyalty and Sacrifices of Our Soldiers
	28 April 1942 New Heroic Deeds by the Sick Man in the White House Roosevelt Also Egyptianizes Venezuela French Colonial Territory of New Caledonia Occupied by USA Troops
	29 April 1942 London: “The Damage in Norwich Is Enormous” England Gloated about Lübeck Too Soon _____________________________________ England had staged a major bombing raid on Lübeck.
	30 April 1942 England Now Complains about German Revenge York Is a New Answer to Churchill’s Air Terror