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schema:text	An image purportedly showing a newspaper headline that said, "1945 Youngsters ask Santa Claus for atom bombs," circulated online in early December 2024. The article read: Assistant Postmaster Fred Haase has handled all letters addressed to Santa Claus at the Chicago post office for the last 10 years. He reported today that in the letters so far received there had been a falling-off in the popularity of war games, but that quite a few of the up-to-date youngsters were asking for an atomic bomb in their stockings. The kids didn't explain exactly what they proposed to do with one. Another frequent request was: "Please bring my daddy home from the war." (@fakehistoryhunt on X) One X user replied to the alleged newspaper clipping by saying: "The last line hurt my heart." Another user who reposted the image added: "I miss old toys. Wood trains, teddy bears, nuclear fission…" Somebody else responded: "I'm a kid at heart. And I absolutely want one. Or one hundred." The newspaper article was real, though the copy of it on social media had been slightly modified. The headine ran in The Miami Daily News on Dec. 3, 1945. In the image on social media, no stories surrounded the in-question passage, and the publication date appeared above the headline. In the actual edition of the newspaper, the article about Santa Claus was surrounded by reports about unemployment, missing persons and medical issues suffered by state representatives (shown below), and the newspaper's publication date appeared in the top right corner of the page. (The Miami Daily News) This story ran just months after World War II ended. The U.S. deployment of atomic weapons in two Japanese cities, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, in August 1945 led to Japan's eventual surrender on Sept. 2, 1945. Those events — or, the atomic bomb in particular — were still fresh in the minds of children that Christmas season, based on the article. Snopes has previously fact-checked other claims about letters to Santa Claus in the past, including rumors about his Canadian postal code and whether the United States Postal Service's "Operation Santa" is real.
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