Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny, No. 257, September 27, 1939 [the surrender of Warsaw]

Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny, Year XXX, No. 257, Kraków, Wednesday, September 27, 1939.
Acting Editor-in-Chief: Ludwik Szczepański; Publisher: “I.K.C.” Publishing House; Printed by: “I.K.C.” Printing Works
Daily newspaper, 4 pages, size 47 x 31.8 cm.

Condition: on the slightly worn horizontal fold, tears on both sides (approx. 3 and 5 cm), cracks in the margins (mainly on the side margins), yellowed paper, a few small spots.

From September 14 to October 26 (Issue No. 282), the newspaper was controlled by the German authorities; after about two weeks, on October 27, publication of “Goniec Krakowski” began as the main daily newspaper of the General Government for Kraków and the surrounding area.

Contents include, among other things: at the top of the cover, the headline “Warsaw Surrenders”; on the cover, “Ribbentrop in Moscow Again. Further Evidence of German-Russian Cooperation. The Turkish Foreign Minister Is Also in the Russian Capital.”;on the cover, two photographs from the parade of German and Soviet troops in Brest-on-the-Bug; on the inside front cover, “The Final Battle for Warsaw. The senseless resistance of the fortified city”; on the following pages, foreign news (“The United States’ sincere admiration for German chivalry in waging economic warfare”); mutual searches for missing persons; sugar rationing (a list of stores and the supplies they received for resale).

Rare pieces of daily newspapers from the very beginning of the German occupation.