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• German troops captured Bobruisk in Byelorussia and Przemysl in Poland. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | TH]
• Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [TH]
• British bombers attacked Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• In Kaunas, Lithuania, a group of Lithuanian nationalists gathered more than 50 Jewish men in a horse stable and beat them violently with iron bars in public view. None of the victims survived the Lietukis Garage Massacre. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• Joseph Stalin gave permission to military tribunals to give out death sentences to members of the Red Army without his personal approval. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | Moscow | CPC]

• The US Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the offices of the Socialist Workers Party in Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota, United States, seizing large quantities of Communist literature. ww2dbase [Minnesota | AC]

• The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appointed Tito as Commander-in-Chief of the Yugoslavian Peoples Army. ww2dbase [Josip Tito | AC]

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