3 September
1939 · politics
Britain declared war on Germany
At quarter past eleven on a Sunday morning, Neville Chamberlain broadcast from the Cabinet Room to say that no undertaking had been received and that consequently this country was at war with Germany. Families gathered round the wireless in front rooms all over Britain to hear it.
The air raid sirens went off in London within the hour. It was a false alarm, but nobody knew that at the time.
“What was the first thing you ever heard on the wireless that frightened you?”