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1941-06-28Minsk Falls

290,000 Soviet troops are captured, 1,500 artillery pieces and 2,500 armoured vehicles are destroyed when German troops from Army Group Center capture Minsk. Hitler is furious when he learns that 250,000 Soviet troops escaped the cauldron.

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1941-06-27Bialystok Falls

German troops from Army Group North capture Bialystok during Operation Barbarossa.

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1941-06-27Lasi Pogrom

Romanian government forces perpetrate one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history. At least 13,266 Jewish residents were murdered during the violence.

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1941-06-221941-12-05Barbarossa

Over 4.5 million Axis troops, transported by 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses, invade the USSR along a 2,900 km front. Despite tactical success, this would be the last German offensive across the entire eastern front.

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1941-06-22Lithuanian June Uprising

The Lithuanian Activist Front decided that its main goal was not to fight with the Russians, but to secure city. By the evening, Lithuanians controlled the Presidential Palace and other Kaunas instituions.

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1941-06-081941-07-10Syria-Lebanon campaign

Successful Allied land, air and sea campaign against Vichy domination of Lebanon and Syria resulting in Free French control of Lebanon and Syria until those states gained independence and themselves declared war against the Axis powers

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1941-06-03Kandanos Razed

German paratroopers raze the village of Kandanos to the ground. All 180 of its inhabitants are murdered.

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1941-06-02Kondomari Massacre

Greek civilians are murdered by an ad-hoc firing squad consisting of German Paratroopers. The killings were part of a series of mass reprisals in Crete for civilian involvement in the defense of the island.

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1941-05-31Iraq

Armistice was signed and the monarchy, with a pro-British government, was put back in place.

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1941-05-31Dublin Bombing

28 people are killed and 90 injured when Luftwaffe planes bomb a working class area of Dublin.

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