20 Aug 1941
- German 250th Infantry Division, nicknamed "Blue Division" and consisted of Spanish volunteers, was formed and began to move to Poland. ww2dbase [CPC]
- The German siege of Leningrad, Russia began. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | TH]
- Comandante Cappellini was given a new patrol area in the Atlantic Ocean at 2210 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]
- After sundown, the Germans conducted another round-up of Jews in Paris, France. Their French passports were confiscated, and they would eventually be deported to the Drancy Concentration Camp and later to various concentration camps in Germany and Eastern Europe. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Drancy Concentration Camp | Paris | CPC]
- The keel of SP1 (later renamed Z40) was laid down by the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | SP1 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
- Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki stepped down as the chief of staff of Kure Naval District, Japan. ww2dbase [Matome Ugaki | CPC]
- Captain Takahiko Kiyota was named the commanding officer of Nachi. ww2dbase [Nachi | CPC]
- German Eleventh Army captured Kherson, Ukraine. Romanian aircraft destroyed a Soviet armored train at Odessa Ukraine. ww2dbase [Siege of Odessa | TH]
![USS North Carolina at anchor, New York, New York, United States, 19-20 Aug 1941](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_northcarolina66.jpg)
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