Diary October 11, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 11, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: Mass evacuation of women and children from Moscow; thousands of workers and students dig anti-tank ditches in outskirts.
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Year 1941
Diary October 10, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 10, 1941: Sea War Black Sea: Rumanian minelayer Regele Carol I sinks in Russian minefield.
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Diary October 9, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 9, 1941: Neutrals Panama: President Arias overthrown in bloodless coup.
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Diary October 8, 1941
Second World War Diary for Wednesday, October 8, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Germans capture Orel, southwest of Moscow.
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Diary October 7, 1941
Second World War Diary for Tuesday, October 7, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa, BATTLE OF VYAZMA. Panzers break through ‘Vyazma Defence Line’. 6 Russian armies encircled (ends October 14). Home
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Diary October 6, 1941
Second World War Diary for Monday, October 6, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: BATTLE OF BRYANSK. Guderian‘s Panzers capture Bryansk southwest of Moscow and link up with 2nd Army (October
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Diary October 5, 1941
Second World War Diary for Sunday, October 5, 1941: Air War North Africa: RAF night raid on Tripoli. Occupied Terrtories France: Germans blow up six Paris synagogues. Neutrals Vichy France:
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Diary October 4, 1941
Great War Diary for Wednesday, October 4, 1941: Air War North Africa: RAF night raid on Benghazi.
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Diary October 3, 1941
Second World War Diary for Friday, October 3, 1941: Home Fronts Germany: Hitler claims in Berlin speech that ‘this enemy (Russia) has already been broken and will never rise again
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Diary October 2, 1941
Second World War Diary for Thursday, October 2, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa – Operation Taifun: Main German armies committed to drive on Moscow. Hitler issues Order of the Day:
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Diary October 1, 1941
Second World War Diary for Wednesday, October 1, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Finnish troops capture Petrozavodsk, on Leningrad–Murmansk railway in Eastern Karelia. However, the Russians later finish a discharge
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Diary September 30, 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
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Diary September 29, 1941
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
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Diary September 28, 1941
Second World War Diary for Sunday, September 28, 1941: Occupied Territories Czechoslovakia: Heydrich, Himmler‘s deputy, appointed Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia.
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Diary September 27, 1941
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
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Diary September 26, 1941
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.
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Diary September 25, 1941
Second World War Diary for Thursday, September 25, 1941: Air War Operation Barbarossa: German parachute troops dropped over the Crimea.
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Diary September 24, 1941
Second World War diary for Wednesday, September 24, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Marshal Budenny re-groups Russian forces to defend city of Kharkov.
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Diary September 23, 1941
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
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Diary September 22, 1941
Diary for Friday, September 22, 1941: Occupied Territories Greece: King George of Greece arrives in London.
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