I definitely want to help out with this.
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i sent them a message, until they answer
- the israel national archive has an website with free access https://catalog.archives.gov.il/en/
- the national library has a newspaper archive with scanned newspapers of what is seems literally every newspaper ever Browse by title | Newspapers | The National Library of Israel
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Sverige under andra världskriget - 1944 till 1945 - YouTube This is the Swedish SF-journalen. Since Indy have knowledge of Swedish i am sure he will like this. It is what the Swedes saw in June 1944. The last half is from our celebration of Swedish flag day on 6 of June 1944
I am going to Stockholm tomorrow and will visit Kungliga biblioteket and add newspaper clips from 6 of June 1944
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I hope this helps to represent Canada!
The link below provides multiple news papers from, The Hamilton Spectator and Globe and Mail (Globe and Mail still active today) which should assist with your research. Major fan of your channel and honoured to be invited to help you! I am also trying to arrange an interview with my sister-in-law’s grandfather who was a Filipino civilian (in the Philippines of course) during the war to see if he heard anything of the D Day invasion.
Source: WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - D-Day and the Normandy Campaign - Dday maps
Take care,
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I use Hathi Trust for a lot of recorded scanned books. Here’s a selection of books with the relevant page selected. If these are what you’re looking for I’ll keep digging.
In addition I have a few journal entries from my grandfather I can transcribe.
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Hi, I found alot in my local library about the build up to D-Day, esspecially about the american soldiers coming to britain. I know it’s not exactly what your asking for but it’s also kinda to do with the subject? Could I post the information up.
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Unfortunately, this is the only newspaper I was able to find online which has an archive with images older than 1952. I do not live in Italy anymore, but I am sure that if I went physically to my ex-local newspaper agency they have an archive that spans at least to the late 1800s.
Regarding radio or film archive from 6th of June probably the “Istituto Luce” would have some. I will check.
The main article reads that the Supreme Command of the German armed forces communicates: The previous night the enemy has started the attack against western Europe, which has been planned for a long time and us awaited. Following strong air attacks against our coastal fortresses, airborne troops have descended on various locations of the Northern French coast between Le Havre and Cherbourg. Meanwhile, others have simultaneously disembarked from the sea with the support of a heavy naval presence. On the beaches, heavy fighting ensues.
In Italy, the enemy moving towards Rome has tried in vain to spearhead, against our defense forces, the city from the west and north. From the east of the city, the enemy attacks have made use of concentrated forces throughout the day near Tivoli. At the east of this location, they have been stopped after heavy fighting.
In the North of Italy, our fighters and anti-aircraft have taken down 8 enemy planes.
On the Eastern front, the German-Romanian army supported by efficient German-Romanian air forces have advanced further thanks to heavy fighting against the strong resistance of the enemy and they have pushed back repeated Bolshevik attacks. During the air fight, 39 enemy planes have been destroyed.
From the rest of the eastern front local fightings have been reported in the Vitabek sector.
In Croatia, the army and SS units of General-colonel Rendulic, supported by fighters and attack plane formations have attacked the center of the Tito group of fighters. They have successfully liquidated them by heavy attacks lasting many days. According to provisional reports, the enemy has lost 6 240 men. Furthermore, many weapons and kitchen utensils have been captured.
In these fightings, the formations which have stood out are the following: the 7th alpine division of the SS “Prinz Eugen” commanded by Oberführer of the SS Kumm and the 500th airborne of the SS commanded by Hauptsturmführer of the SS Rybka.
The last night some enemy planes have released bombs on Osnabruck. Two planes have been taken down.
I hope this translation makes sense. Let me know if a translation of the whole front page would help.
Tommaso
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I’d like to introduce you to a man who was at D-Day on June 6th on Omaha Beach. His name is Jack Gutman, if you search Jack Gutman WW2 Vet you’ll find his book and several news articles about him. He has become a friend over the last two years and gets 2-3 interview requests a month. He is 96 and still going. If you’d like an interview with a man who was there, let me know and I’ll contact him and then see if we can set up something. He is in Southern CA . Maybe a zoom interview could work although in person would obviously be amazing. Don’t wait too long, at 96, just saying. I’m a big fan of your show and a really big fan of D-Day. I’m already planning to take the day off work so I can sit and watch the whole thing!
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Here are two articles about a family friend of mine, he was a signalman, telephone linesman to be precise, landed on Juno Beach on June 9th. He’s a good example of the support troops who are ever so essential:
https://lakefieldwarvets.ca/whetung-murray/
Another writeup from the Toronto Sun in 2009.
https://nsmb.com/forum/forum/nbr-not-biking-related-9/topic/the-last-warrior-52834/
I’ve had dinner with him several times; he passed away last year at the age of 100.
In reply to earlier in the thread, indigenous Canadians were denied the right to vote until 1960 under the Indian Act. Curve Lake, north of Peterborough, ON was the first reserve to exercise the right to vote I the 1960 by-election in Peterborough West. Mr Whetung was among those casting his ballot.
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Glad it help. I don’t really know about Radio Archive, except this:
The Radio Bruxelles - Zender Brussel archives | Cegesoma, the catalogue is available online but I don’t think you can listen to the actual broadcast online.
Also, I don’t have the impression that there are recording about the DDay in the catalogue, but who knows’, maybe a good place to look, get some contact.
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Hear is a link to 44 front pages of newspapers and a video of a D-Day vet.
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A greek newspaper of that era ( https://www.kathimerini.gr/k/100yk/1019687/apovasi-sti-normandia/ )
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I managed to find two Finnish newspaper articles from that day. They seem to talk about the invasion surprisingly openly. The first one is from Turun Sanomat, and second one is a news article from Helsingin Sanomat.
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Since Iam new user I could only post one picture, so here is the second one.
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Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, FL, USA) - June 6, 1944 Tuesday Morning
Banner headline: “Nazis Say Invasion Underway”
London AP story which begins “The German news agency Transocean said today in a broadcast that the Allied invasion had begun. There was no Allied confirmation.”
Banner headline for June 7, same paper:
“Allied Forces Expand First Gains; Eisenhower ‘Serene’”
Miami Herald (Miami, FL, USA) - Tues June 6, 1944 Extra
Banner Headline: INVASION LAUNCHED (large and bold)
Banner Subtitle: Allied Troops Swarm Ashore
“Allied Invasion Termed History’s Biggest Gamble” is one of the front page stories.
Interestingly, nearly all the front page articles on both papers is Associated Press.
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The Brooklyn Eagle’s page had United Press articles. I smell rivalry 
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Hey Folks,
love your work. Keep it coming.
I’m not sure if you are aware of this but the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz has recently launched a huge collection of German newspapers. Daily, weekly, evening dispatches - the lot. Maybe there are some interesting snippets of D-Day from the German side. They probably won’t be too factual but will certainly give a good impression of initial reactions. Anyway, here’s the link:
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper?lang=en
Cheers,
Julian
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ok so i got an answer from the official channel - they did not answer my question regarding helping directly, but they did give me an email to the digitized film archive - they have told me that they are slow to answer because of getting many requests and the digitization is still not done (scheduled finish is 2024) but they do make an effort to help
email: film-archive@kan.org.il
im gonna try some local history facebook groups to see if anyone knows someone with some credentials about the late mandate period
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Hello Tommaso,
Thanks again, for your translation. A few questions, relating to what you wrote:
What local newspaper agency have you worked for? And if you think they have materials, would there be a possibility that we could contact them, so they can give us an overview of what they have?
I can’t read Italian, so difficult for me to understand what archive would contain the materials from Istituto Luce. But super interested to see if there are recordings concerning D Day. Do you have time to help out what archive has the biggest chance of containing some kind of recordings?
Best,
Wieke
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Hello Arnaud,
The link you shared is very valuable! I noticed that they do have recordings in the month of June 1944 in German, French and Dutch. It would be very interesting to see if there is notion of an impending invasion (or it’s aftermath). But you are correct, we would have to go there physically to listen to it.
Do you live in Brussels yourself, by any chance? Or would you know anyone who is somehow related to the Radio Bruxelles archive?
Best, Wieke
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