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The following events occurred in July 1941: July 1, 1941 (Tuesday) The Battle of Palmyra was fought in Syria, resulting in Allied victory.
On 5 July 1941, during the Wąsosz pogrom, Polish residents knifed and beat to death about 150–250 Jews. Two days later, during the Radziłów pogrom, local Poles are reported to have murdered 800 Jews, 500 of whom were burned in a barn. The murders took place after the Gestapo had arrived in the towns.
The important road junction at Loimola was captured on 14 July. By 16 July, the first Finnish units reached Lake Ladoga at Koirinoja, achieving the goal of splitting the Soviet forces. During the rest of July, the Army of Karelia advanced further southeast into Karelia, coming to a halt at the former Finnish-Soviet border at Mansila. [270] [271]
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in July 1941. 1 July General Auchinleck takes over from General Wavell in North Africa. The British win the Battle of Palmyra against the French in the Middle East. All American men over 21 are required to register for the draft. German troops occupy Latvia's capital, Riga, on the way to Leningrad. 2 July
Official Soviet data on losses in the Battle of Smolensk (10 July - 10 September 1941) were disclosed only in 1993. According to the study by a team of authors led by Grigori F. Krivosheev , [ 38 ] the troops of the four "fronts" and the Soviet Pinsk Naval Flotilla [ ru ] lost a total of:
The Pripyat Marshes massacres (German: Prypyatsümpfe Säuberung) were a series of mass murders [1] carried out by the military forces of Nazi Germany against Jewish civilians in Belarus and Ukraine, during July–August 1941.
The signing of the Sikorski–Mayski agreement. The Sikorski–Mayski agreement was a treaty between the Soviet Union and Poland that was signed in London on 30 July 1941. [1] [2] [3] Its name is taken from its two most notable signatories: the prime minister of Poland, Władysław Sikorski, and the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ivan Mayski.
July 1941 events by continent (3 C) M. Maritime incidents in July 1941 (15 P) Pages in category "July 1941 events" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of ...