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.
September 1942 was a hopeful period from the German point of view. Submarine warfare was doing well and Stalingrad seemed near conquest.
Völkischer Beobachter: September 1942
1 September 1942
New U-Boat Success: 181,000 BRT
Enemy Shipping Again in a Maelstrom of Sinkings
German Attack 25 Kilometers from Stalingrad
2 September 1942
Outstanding August Results: 808,100 BRT
Our U-Boats Again Torpedo the Second Front
31 Warships Sunk — Breakthrough on the East Coast of the Black Sea
3 September 1942
The World Draws Conclusions
Three Years of Churchill’s War — Only English Defeats
A Voice from Turkey: “Never in History Has There Been Such a Series of Victories”
4 September 1942
Irrefutable Proof:
Roosevelt is the Attacker
The Chain of Enemy Actions against the Axis Began Five Years Ago
5 September 1942
New Wine in Old Wineskins
The Fool in the White House Wants to Corrupt the Youth
Schirach Answers Roosevelt in the Name of Europe’s Youth
6 September 1942
Stalingrad — A Second Sevastopol
Hard Fighting Near the Fortress
A Week of Proud Success on Land, at Sea, and in the Air
7 September 1942
1062 Soviet Planes Destroyed in Ten Days
Taman Peninsula Entirely in German Hands
Another High Mountain Pass in the Caucasus Captured
8 September 1942
17 More Ships with 108,000 BRT
Unforgiving Rhythm of Sinkings
A Hard Blow at Novorissiysk
Moscow on Stalingrad: “A Matter of Life or Death"
9 September 1942
Alarm among the Insane in the White House
Roosevelt’s Ultimatum:
Dictatorship or Inflation
Congress Should Give the Judocracy Free Rein
10 September 1942
Churchill Faces a Bored Lower House
Confession of Political and Military Bankruptcy
Shameful Submission to the Mass Murderers in the Kremlin
11 September 1942
Good Times for Moscow’s Agents in London
Stalin’s Power in London Grows
“The English People Trust Soviet Generals More Than Churchill”
12 September 1942
The Volga Reached South of the City
Stalingrad in the Grip
Stalin: “No More Room to Retreat”
13 September 1942
The “Secret President” of North America
Jew Baruch Becomes USA Economic Dictator
The Goal: Jewish Control of Raw Material Sources
14 September 1942
Individual Ships and Convoys
18 Ships with 121,500 BRT Sunk
Major Successes by our U-Boats in Hard Battles
15 September 1942
A New Weapon in This War
European Youth Federation Founded in Vienna
Schirach and Ricci Honorary Presidents — Axmann and Vidussoni Presidents of the Federation
16 September 1942
An African Dieppe
Landing Near Tobruk Fails Miserably
576 Captured — 2 Cruisers and 4 Destroyers Sunk
17 September 1942
London’s Desk Top Strategists at a Loss
“The Battle of Stalingrad Is at Its Peak”
Moscow Admits: German Troops are in the City
18 September 1942
Fighting in the Center of Stalingrad
London’s Last Hope is the Weather
19 September 1942
Moscow Knows What It Is Losing
The Battle for the Last Ruin
England Already Discounting the Loss of Stalingrad
20 September 1942
Three Special Announcements in Seven Days
German Sailors Help the Fighting Eastern Front
100,000 BRT Sunk in the Atlantic and Arctic Sea
21 September 1942
New Major Convoy Battle in the Arctic Sea
38 War Supply Ships of 270,000 BRT Sunk
Striking Power of the Luftwaffe and U-Boat Attacks Hinder Supplies for the Soviet Front
22 September 1942
Remainder of Northern Convoy Attacked Again
Heroic Achievements by our Pilots
23 September 1942
London Forced to Admit Convoy Catastrophe
The Admiralty: “Unfortunately Nothing More Can Be Said”
24 September 1942
Bolshevist Negro State Planned in USA
Roosevelt a Soviet Agent in His Own Country
25 September 1942
Another 125,000 BRT and Three Destroyers Sunk
More Warships than Merchant Ships and Still a Convoy Catastrophe
Simultaneous Successes from the Arctic Sea to the African Coast
26 September 1942
Powerful Unity of the Three Power Alliance
Japanese U-Boats Operating in the Atlantic
Military Cooperation of Fundamental Significance
27 September 1942
Joint Atlantic Battle with the Three Power Alliance
Japanese Cargo Submarine Reaches German Base after a World Cruise
28 September 1942
Captain Graf — Victor in Over 200 Air Battles
Unique Achievement in the History of Military Aviation
29 September 1942
Nothing Gets Past Our U-Boats!
Fast Transports with USA Troops Sunk in North Atlantic
104,000 BRT — Including Three Large Passenger Ships and a Destroyer
30 September 1942
Atlantic Crossing Not a "Comfortable Trip”
Roosevelt Refuses Comment
USA Population Faces Tortured Uncertainty about the Fate of Troop Transports
Note: No U.S. troop ships were sunk during this period.