WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened June to September 1941

World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. (1. June 1941)

World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed. (22. September 1941)

World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation. (7. July 1941)

World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. (2. June 1941)

Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union. (29. August 1941)

World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners. (5. August 1941)

Japanese troops occupy French Indochina. (27. July 1941)

Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. (22. June 1941)

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre. (30. September 1941)

World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River. (5. July 1941)

Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany. (11. September 1941)

Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war. (24. August 1941)

The June Uprising in Lithuania begins. (22. June 1941)

World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. (7. July 1941)

Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. (10. July 1941)

World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad. (22. August 1941)

Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk. (6. July 1941)

World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. (4. September 1941)

World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants. (3. June 1941)

World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued. (17. September 1941)