He was mentioned in despatches on 9 August 1940 and 21 March 1941 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in January 1941.

In August 1941, Mountbatten was appointed captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action at Malta in the Mediterranean in January.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained " war work " when he was taken on full-time by the BBC's Eastern Service.

Sixteen young, blindfolded Yugoslav Partisans await execution by German forces in Serbia, 20 August 1941

In August 1941, a front-bench revolt forced Menzies to resign as Prime Minister.

In August 1941, when the question of whether to deport foreign Jews living in Germany arose, Ribbentrop argued against deportation as a way of maximizing the Foreign Office's influence.

The 82 mm BM-8 was approved in August 1941, and deployed as the BM-8-36 on truck beds and BM-8-24 on T-40 and T-60 light tank chassis.

A London message from the GRU, the Red Army's foreign military intelligence directorate, dated 10 August 1941, refers to the GRU reestablishing contact with Fuchs.

He attended Munali Training Centre in Lusaka ( August 1941 – 1943 ).

Nevertheless this civilian transport was adapted to the long-range reconnaissance and anti-shipping roles and, between August 1940 and February 1941, Fw 200s sank 85 vessels for a claimed total of 363, 000 Grt.

Mainly issued to the Home Guard as an anti-tank weapon, it was produced in vast numbers ; by August 1941 well over 6, 000, 000 had been manufactured.

The Navy took over the atoll for use as the Palmyra Island Naval Air Station on August 15, 1941.

* In August 1941, Menzies resigned as prime minister.

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Stalin increased mobilization, and by 1 August 1941, despite 46 divisions lost in combat, the Red Army's strength was 401 divisions.

* 1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.

that nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference which can be traced back to the Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom pledged The Eight Principal points of the Charter.

Ugo Nespolo ( Mosso, ( Biella ), 29 August 1941 ) is an Italian painter and sculptor, particularly known for his experimental films, his applied arts works and his artistic collaborations in advertising, theatre and literature.

Menzies resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the UAP on 29 August 1941.

The capture of the U-570 in August 1941

The capture, rather than sinking, of U-570 – the only ship to be captured by an aircraft – on 27 August 1941 by a Lockheed Hudson from RAF Coastal Command was important for determining the fighting capacity of U-boats, although her crew destroyed the Enigma and cipher information.

Himmler joined the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) in August 1923 ; his Party number was 14, 303.

* August 24 – WWII: – Heinrich Himmler is named Reichminister of the Interior in Germany.

On 27 June 1944 the Gestapo took the tapestry to the Louvre and on 18 August, three days before the Wehrmacht withdrew from Paris, Himmler sent a message ( intercepted by Bletchley Park ) ordering it to be taken to " a place of safety ", thought to be Berlin.

Himmler had at least one conversation with a known oppositionist when, in August 1943, the Prussian Finance Minister Johannes Popitz, who was involved in Goerdeler's network, came to see him and offered him the support of the opposition if he would make a move to displace Hitler and secure a negotiated end to the war.

Polish historians like Pospieszalski and Janusz Kutta point to a Nazi top secret false flag Operation Himmler ( which took place on August 31 – September 1 ) and was designed to create an illusion of Polish aggression against Germany.

With Kurt Daluege and Heinrich Himmler, August 1933

Reichsfuhrer Himmler visited Zamość in August 1942 and ordered that the buildings of the old city be demolished immediately and replaced by a " German town ".

He was executed in August 1944 under orders from Heinrich Himmler.

In 1944, Himmler convinced Adolf Hitler to put the V-2 project directly under SS control, and on 8 August Kammler replaced Walter Dornberger as its director.

Greiser ’ s Poznań was considered the Germanised city par excellence and on 3 August 1943 he hosted a national gathering of Gauleiter and senior Nazis, including Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler.

By contrast, the Swiss historian Philippe Burrin argues that such a decision was not made before August 1941 at the earliest, pointing to orders given by Himmler on July 30, 1941 to the 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment and the SS Cavalry Brigade operating in the Pripet Marshes in the Pripyat operation calling for the murder of male Jews only while the Jewish women and children were to be driven into the Marshes.

During a visit to Russia in August 1941, Himmler witnessed the Einsatzgruppen killings first-hand and concluded that shooting Jews was too much of a " psychological burden " for his men.

Following Hitler's 22 August 1943 order for Heinrich Himmler to use concentration camp workers for A-4 production, 107 inmates arrived at Nordhausen from Buchenwald on 28 August 1943, followed by 1, 223 on 2 September.

In August 1943, Goerdeler and his friend, the Oberbürgermeister of Stuttgart, the disillusioned SA-Brigadeführer Karl Strölin sent a joint memo to the Reich Interior Minister, the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler complaining about the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian policies of the Nazi regime, asking for the end of the " emergency " laws that had suspended civil rights in Germancy since 1933, and called for the end of the NSDAP influence on the judiciary.

The Warsaw Uprising started on 1 August 1944 and changed Himmler ’ s plans.

The SS-VT was renamed the " Waffen-SS " in a speech made by Adolf Hitler in July 1940 ; on 1 August Himmler established the Kommandoamt der Waffen-SS ( Waffen-SS Command Office ) within the new SS-Führungshauptamt ( FHA ) under Gruppenführer Hans Jüttner.

In August 1934, Himmler received permission from Hitler to form a new organisation from the SS Sonderkommandos and the Politischen Bereitschaften, the SS-Verfügungstruppe ( SS-VT ).

In addition, those Orpo police generals that undertook the duties of both Senior SS and Police Leader ( Höhere SS und Polizeiführer ) gained equivalent Waffen-SS ranks in August 1944 when Himmler was appointed Chef der Ersatzheeres ( Chief of Home Army ), because they had authority over the prisoner-of-war camps in their area.

In a secret letter written on 31 August 1935, Hitler compelled Himmler to make an exception for Maurice and his brothers, who were informally declared " Honorary Aryans " and allowed to stay in the SS.

In August 1943, Ivan Mihailov left Zagreb incognito for Germany where he was to visit the main headquarters of Hitler and the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst, where he spoke to Hitler and Himmler and other top German leaders.

On 1 August, 1940, the " Dirlewanger " was assigned to anti-partisan duties in the General Government region in Poland, and was answerable only to Heinrich Himmler ..

On 24 August, SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler sent a letter to the Brigade, praising its fighting spirit.

In a report to Hitler of December 20, 1942, Himmler indicates that the Einsatzgruppen had executed 363, 211 Jews between August and November, 1942.