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title: The Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, June 23, 1941)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daily-alaska-empire-axis-declares-war-on-russia-1941/
description: 'Front page of a Juneau daily the morning after the German invasion of the USSR: a full-width banner reads ''AXIS DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA'' and a second…'
section: Collection
---

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# The Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, June 23, 1941)

Front page of a Juneau daily the morning after the German invasion of the USSR: a full-width banner reads 'AXIS DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA' and a second full-width banner 'JAPAN CAUTIOUS ON MAKING WAR MOVE', over an Associated Press report headed 'NAZI BLITZ ROLLS OVER RUSS BORDER'. The invasion is a documented event; the technique tagged is the ordering of the page, where a Japan story for a Pacific-Northwest readership takes the second banner and the Soviet-side account is carried in a single AP column.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LVII., NO. 8758.   JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1941.   MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS   PRICE TEN CENTS

AXIS DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA
JAPAN CAUTIOUS ON MAKING WAR MOVE

[left column] SITUATION IS SERIOUS FOR NIPPON; Premier Konoye Has Conference with Emperor Over New Conflict; OFFICIALS, MILITARY HEADS PLAN CAMPAIGN; Country Appears Calm in Face of Two Previous Binding Pacts
[photo caption] Coast Guardsmen stand guard along the gang plank of the Danish freighter Rita Maersk at Boston, Mass., after the United States Government put the ship, one of a fleet of 84 foreign vessels, on the service list.
U. S. TAKES SHIP
JAPAN NOW WATCHED BY OBSERVERS; Nippon Might Attempt to Seize Eastern Siberia While War Rages
ROBIN MOOR SURVIVORS INTERVIEWED
NAZI BLITZ ROLLS OVER RUSS BORDER; Italy Follows German Example—Finland Claims State of Neutrality; TROOPS ALREADY TEN MILES INTO SOVIET; Revolution in Lithuania Gives All-Out Help to Invaders

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Germany declared war on Russia early Sunday morning. The declaration was made by Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop.

Immediately afterwards, Hitler ordered the march of the Nazis into Russia, declaring that Germany had enough of Russia's violations of the frontier of the Reich and commended the fate of Germany to the army.

[right column] BRITISH BOMBING GERMANY; FRENCH FORCES LOSING; ATTACK ON RUSSIA IS CONDEMNED; United States Official Talks Out—Assistance May Be Given

[the remaining columns are not transcribed]
```

Masthead, banners, headlines and the first two paragraphs of the Associated Press lead were read from the committed 1280-px image. The rest of the page is not transcribed.

[← Volk en Vaderland, front page, 21 February 1941: "Joden - misdaad. Weerman Koot vermoord"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/volk-en-vaderland-koot-1941/) [Stalinskoe znamya, daily edition, front page (Ryazan, June 23, 1941) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stalinskoe-znamya-molotov-speech-1941/)

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