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title: 'Il Popolo d''Italia, 11 June 1940: ''Popolo italiano corri alle armi!'' (front page)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/il-popolo-d-italia-corri-alle-armi-1940/
description: Front page of Il Popolo d'Italia the morning after Italy's declaration of war, with the banner headline 'Popolo italiano corri alle armi!' (Italian…
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# Il Popolo d'Italia, 11 June 1940: 'Popolo italiano corri alle armi!' (front page)

Front page of Il Popolo d'Italia the morning after Italy's declaration of war, with the banner headline 'Popolo italiano corri alle armi!' (Italian people, run to arms) above a full column headed 'Parla Mussolini', and a photograph captioned 'La gioventu italiana accorre alle armi'. The headline addresses the whole people as one body in motion, and the photo caption reports that youth are already doing it.

## Text on the object

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

```
Il Popolo d'Italia
Fondatore: BENITO MUSSOLINI
MILANO - Anno XXVII - Via Arnaldo Mussolini, 10
N. 163 - Martedì 11 Giugno 1940-XVIII E. F.

L'ORA SEGNATA DAL DESTINO È SCOCCATA
POPOLO ITALIANO
CORRI ALLE ARMI!
L'intervento dell'Italia annunziato dal Duce

Guerra
Parla Mussolini
Messaggi del Führer al Re Imperatore e al Duce
L'Ambasciatore Rosso partito per Mosca
I Tedeschi all'inseguimento delle unità battute
La bandiera germanica sventola su Narvik

[photograph caption:] La gioventù italiana accorre alle armi

[column text and smaller masthead lines: not transcribed]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The People of Italy
Founder: BENITO MUSSOLINI
MILAN - Year XXVII - Via Arnaldo Mussolini, 10
No. 163 - Tuesday 11 June 1940-XVIII Fascist Era

THE HOUR MARKED BY DESTINY HAS STRUCK
ITALIAN PEOPLE
RUN TO ARMS!
Italy's intervention announced by the Duce

War
Mussolini speaks
Messages from the Führer to the King-Emperor and to the Duce
The Red Ambassador has left for Moscow
The Germans in pursuit of the beaten units
The German flag flies over Narvik

[photograph caption:] Italian youth rushes to arms

[column text and smaller masthead lines: not transcribed]
```

Display lines, section headings, the masthead and the photograph caption are transcribed. The body columns and the small price and subscription lines are not legible enough to transcribe. XVIII E. F. is the year of the Fascist Era (counted from 1922).

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