WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened August to November 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)

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

World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. (7. November 1941)

World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. (19. November 1941)

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

The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. (27. September 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)

After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed. (31. October 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: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. (29. September 1941)

World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers massacred about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors. (21. October 1941)

American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography. (1. November 1941)

World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day. (14. November 1941)

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

The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs. (3. September 1941)

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. (12. November 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)

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)

Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany. (5. September 1941)