14 Oct 1941 | World War II Database

14 Oct 1941

German submarine U-206 sank British corvette HMS Fleur de Lys (Lieutenant A. Collins; escorting Allied convoy OG-75) 60 miles west of Gibraltar at 0336 hours; 71 were killed, 3 survived and were rescued by a Spanish ship. ww2dbase [AC]
The German Kriegsmarine placed orders for 49 more submarines to be constructed. ww2dbase [CPC]

Germany

Germany announced that all Jews within the 1933 border would be deported; these Jews were beginning to be deported to ghettos in Poland, Byelorussia, and Ukraine. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
The order for U-1234 was made. ww2dbase [U-1234 | CPC]
The order for the construction of U-1233 was issued. ww2dbase [U-1233 | CPC]

Japan

Tatsuta Maru was acquired by the Japanese Navy and was assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District, Japan. Her civilian crew was replaced by that from the military. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

Russia

The Soviet troops in the Bryansk pocket in Russia were eliminated (50,000 captured), while the Vyazma pocket was within days of the same fate. In Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered that the Soviet capital of Moscow was to be enveloped, not attacked directly. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Joseph Stalin briefed 23 senior Soviet military and civilian officials between 1530 and 1815 hours on a plan to evacuate the city in an orderly fashion; he ordered four theater groups (Lenin State Theater, Maxim Gorkiy Artistic Academic Theater, Little Academic Theater, and Vakhtangov Theater) to be evacuated first. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | TH]

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