WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1941
Find out what all happened August to October 1941

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. (4. October 1941)

The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action". (29. October 1941)

1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. (30. October 1941)

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

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

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

For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. (17. October 1941)

World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. (3. September 1941)

World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. (22. October 1941)

World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. (30. October 1941)

Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon. (11. September 1941)

The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. (28. September 1941)

A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president. (9. October 1941)

World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow. (23. October 1941)

German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece. (17. October 1941)

World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica. (31. August 1941)

World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. (8. September 1941)

World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre. (20. October 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: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. (29. September 1941)