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What happened in October 1941

• October 1, 1941: The Nazi German Majdanek concentration camp opens in occupied Poland, resulting in the deaths of at least 200,000 people between 1941 and 1944.
• October 2, 1941: Germany launches Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive against Moscow, marking a significant escalation in World War II.
• October 5, 1941: In Berdychiv, 20,000 to 30,000 Jews are shot dead, highlighting the systematic extermination of Jewish people during the Holocaust.
• October 7, 1941: John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia, following the defeat of the Country/UAP Coalition government, signaling a change in leadership during World War II.
• October 8, 1941: Germany reaches the Sea of Azov, capturing Mariupol, demonstrating the rapid advance of German forces in the invasion of the Soviet Union.
• October 11, 1941: Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia launch attacks against Axis-occupied zones, marking the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
• October 13, 1941: Heinrich Himmler orders the construction of Bełżec, the first of the Operation Reinhard extermination camps, symbolizing the escalation of the Holocaust.
• October 15, 1941: British submarine HMS Torbay bombards the port of Apollonia, Cyrenaica in Italian Libya, demonstrating the British naval presence in the Mediterranean Sea.
• October 16, 1941: The Soviet government relocates to Kuibyshev, while Stalin remains in Moscow, indicating the resilience of the Soviet leadership during the German invasion.
• October 17, 1941: Destroyer USS Kearny is torpedoed near Iceland, resulting in the first American military casualties of World War II, despite the country's neutral stance at the time.
• October 18, 1941: General Hideki Tōjō becomes the 40th Prime Minister of Japan, signaling a shift in Japanese leadership during World War II.
• October 21, 1941: German soldiers and local auxiliaries massacre over 2,000 civilian men in Kragujevac, Nazi-occupied Serbia, highlighting the brutality of the German occupation.
• October 23, 1941: Walt Disney's fourth animated film, Dumbo, is released in the United States, providing a brief respite from the ongoing war.
• October 25, 1941: German fighter pilot Franz von Werra disappears during a flight over the North Sea, adding to the intrigue and uncertainty of the air war.
• October 29, 1941: Over 9,200 Lithuanian Jews are shot dead, underscoring the systematic extermination of Jewish people during the Holocaust.
• October 30, 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union, demonstrating the growing support for the Allied cause.
• October 31, 1941: Destroyer USS Reuben James is accidentally torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, resulting in the deaths of over 100 United States Navy sailors, further escalating tensions between the US and Germany.