September 3

  • BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    London, England • September 3, 1939 Addressing a national audience by radio on this date in 1939, Prime Minis­ter Neville Cham­ber­lain in­toned the fol­lowing words: “This morning the British am­bas­sador in Berlin handed the German Govern­ment a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o’clock that they were pre­pared at once to…

  • BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    London, England · September 3, 1939 Addressing a national audience by radio, Prime Minis­ter Neville Cham­ber­lain in­toned the fol­lowing words: “This morning the British am­bas­sador in Berlin handed the Ger­man Govern­ment a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o’clock that they were pre­pared at once to with­draw their troops from Poland,…