24 Aug 1941
- Romanian forces suffered heavy losses during the Soviet counter attack near Odessa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | TH]
- Vichy France passed anti-terrorist laws, punishable with death sentences, to deal with the resistance movement. ww2dbase [The French Resistance | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler ordered the end of the euthanasia program that had already killed 70,273 mentally-ill people. Some doctors would continue to kill the mentally-ill through the end of the European War. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Oberleutnant Hans Philipp became the 33rd member recipient of the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Comandante Cappellini was ordered to move to a new patrol area in the Atlantic Ocean at 1035 hours. At 1700 hours, she received yet another set of coordinates to sail to. At around this time, a German submarine was sighted, and greetings were exchanged. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]
- Winston Churchill broadcast, on the BBC, his "Crime without a name" speech which told the listening public of the mass murders that are being committed by German police and SS units against the civilian populations in the overrun Soviet territories. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | London, England | AC]
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