The Daily Alaska Empire, 'AXIS DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA' front page, 23 June 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.
- Date
- June 23, 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- The Daily Alaska Empire (Empire Printing Company, Juneau, Alaska Territory), a member of the Associated Press
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Chronicling America (Alaska State Library Historical Collections, NDNP awardee), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- LOC Chronicling America: no known restrictions; no copyright notice on page 1
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska), 23 June 1941, p. 1. Alaska State Library Historical Collections, via Library of Congress, Chronicling America (LCCN sn83045499).
Text on the object
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.
