National Content: Italy
Rings the decisive hour
| Source | Front page of “Corriere della Sera” (September 1st, 1939) |
| Event referred to | September 1st, 1939: Wehrmacht invasion of Poland |
| Technological characteristics | Type of file: Text Extension : html Availability proposed: Popup with zoom options |
| Description of the source | Kind of source: Front page of a newspaper Origin of the source: website: http://www.corriere.it/store/guerra/2a%20guerra%20mondiale/c_19390901.shtml Language: Italian Copyright issues: Free preview of the page. You can buy it (€ 17.00 or € 24.00) |
| Contextualisation of the source | The first page of the newspaper introduces the new difficult situation in Europe. The newspaper was published on Friday 1st September 1939. It was during the Fascist regime, so there wasn’t any freedom of the press. |
| Interpretation of the source | The events are introduced with great details and great abundance of emphatic terms. All the articles in this page have a strong convincing value. |
| Original Contents | Scocca l’ora decisiva.Le proposte di Hitler per Danzica e il Corridoio leali, ragionevoli ed eseguibilissime lasciate stoltamente cadere da Varsavia e da Londra. Inghilterra e compagni inchiodati alle loro tremende responsabilità. |
| Original Contents (English Translation) | Rings the decisive hour.Hitler’s fair, reasonable and very feasible purposes for Danzig and the Corridor were stupidly failed by Warsaw and London. England and friends nailed to their awful responsibilities. |