WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened August to September 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: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (16. September 1941)

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

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

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)

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

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

World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. (14. August 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: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre. (30. 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: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. (4. September 1941)

Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. (15. August 1941)

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