09-1941

Second World War Diary for Tuesday, September 30, 1941: Occupied Territories Russia – BABI YAR MASSACRES: 33,771 Jews killed by SS and Ukrainians outside Kiev (September 29-30). Eastern Front Operation […]

Second World War Diary for Monday, September 29, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops enter Donets Basin (Donbas) industrial region, source of over 60 per cent of Russian coal

Second World War Diary for Sunday, September 28, 1941: Occupied Territories Czechoslovakia: Heydrich, Himmler‘s deputy, appointed Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia.

Second World War Diary for Saturday, September 27, 1941: Air War Western Europe: Blenheim bombers, escorted by Spitfire V fighters, bomb Amiens rail junction; 21 German and 13 British fighters

Second World War Diary for Friday, September 26, 1941: Home Fronts Britain – Wrekin (Shropshire) by-election: Colegate (Conservative) wins with 9,946 votes, but Pemberton-Billing (‘Bomb Berlin’ candidate) gets 7,121 votes.

Second World War Diary for Thursday, September 25, 1941: Air War Operation Barbarossa: German parachute troops dropped over the Crimea.

Second World War diary for Wednesday, September 24, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Marshal Budenny re-groups Russian forces to defend city of Kharkov.

Diary for Tuesday, September 23, 1941: Occupied Territories France: De Gaulle forms Free French National Committee. German authorities in Paris announce that any French male assisting or hiding a British

Diary for Friday, September 22, 1941: Occupied Territories Greece: King George of Greece arrives in London.

Diary for Sunday, September 21, 1941: Air War Siege of Leningrad: 60 Ju 87 Stukas make repeated attacks on Russian Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt Harbour, near Leningrad (September 21-24): battleship

Diary for Saturday, September 20, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Italian ‘human torpedo’, launched from submarine Scire, sinks a naval tanker at Gibraltar.

Diary for Friday, September 19, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops capture Kiev. Retreating Russians have carried out many demolitions and planted innumerable mines and time-bombs. Occupied Territories Yugoslavia:

Diary for Thursday, September 18, 1941: Russian Front Operation Barbarossa, Siege of Leningrad: German artillery fire seriously damages Russian battleship Petropavlovsk in Kronstadt Harbour. Sea War Mediterranean: Italian troopships Neptunia

Diary for Wednesday, September 17, 1941: Air War Eastern Front: RAF Hawker Hurricane wing in action over near Murmansk in northern Russia. Middle East Iran: Russians troops enter Teheran. Sea

Diary for Tuesday, September 16, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa – Siege of Leningrad: Transfer of Panzer divisions from Army Group North to Army Group Centre begins. Hitler declares that

Diary for Monday, September 15, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa – BATTLE OF KIEV: Panzer spearheads of Guderian (Army Group Centre) and Kleist (Army Group South) meet at Lochvitsa, east

Diary for Sunday, September 14, 1941: Secret War Finland: 3 German minesweepers sabotaged in Helsinki dockyard.

Diary for Saturday, September 13, 1941: Neutrals Japan: Japanese Combined Fleet completes rigorous 4-day exercise in North Pacific.

Diary for Friday, September 12, 1941: Russian Front Russians withdraw from Chernigov, key town mid-way between Kiev and Gomel. First snow reported on Eastern Front.

Diary for Thursday, September 11, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa, Siege of Leningrad: General Zhukov replaces Voroshilov as Leningrad Defence Commander – he immediately rouses the dispirited garrison to greater