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.
- Date
- June 11, 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Il Popolo d'Italia, Milan (daily founded by Benito Mussolini)
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- BandwagonGlittering generalities
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (transferred from it.wikipedia), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Italian newspaper page, 1940; Commons PD-text and PD-1996)
Il Popolo d'Italia, Milan, 11 June 1940, no. 163. Via Wikimedia Commons (uploader Sentruper, it.wikipedia).
Text on the object
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]
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).
