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1941-10-03Oryol Occupied

Oryol is occupied by Wehrmacht troops. It would not be liberated until the 5th of August 1943, after being almost completely destroyed during the Battle of Kursk.

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1941-09-08Lenningrad Encircled

The last land connection to the besieged city was severed when Germans troops reached Lake Ladoga at Orekhovets. The city would remained under siege for 872 days.

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1941-08-16Mykolaiv Falls

Troops from Army Group South capture Soviet naval base in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv.

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1941-08-14Atlantic Charter Signed

The Atlantic Charter was an agreement made by Roosevelt and Churchill, which set goals for the postwar world. It agreed to seek no territorial gain from the war.

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1941-08-081941-10-16Siege of Odessa

It took 73 days and 93,000 casualties for the Romanian army and elements of the German 11th army to take Odessa.

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1941-07-151941-08-08Uman

The German encirclement of the 6th and 12th Soviet armies. This occured during the initial offensive operations of Rundstedt's Army Group South during Operation Barbarossa.

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1941-07-07Beirut Occupied

British and Free French troops occupy Beirut.

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1941-07-07US Occupies Iceland

US troops from the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade take over the occupation and defence of Iceland from the British garrison who is needed elsewhere.

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1941-07-061941-08-05Germans encircle Smolensk

The 2nd and 3rd panzer army's largely successful encirclement of the 16th, 19th and the 20th Armies south of Smolensk. 200,000 troops from the 19th managed to escape the pocket, leading Hitler to abandon the encirclement as a tactical goal.

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1941-06-30Fall of Lviv

In advance of German troops, NKVD and NKGB troops retreating from the city of Lviv murder the occupants of the Lviv's prisons. German troops capture the city.

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