Sunday, September 19, 2021

Friday September 19, 1941. The Germans take Kiev

On this day in 1941 Kiev fell and with it 500,000 soldiers of the Red Army went into captivity.

Only shortly before this, the Germans had put Soviet POWs on a lower ration scale than those provided to POWs of other nations.

A massive geomagnetic storm caused spectacular nighttime light displays and disrupted radio and telegraph communications.

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