All Jews under German occupation must now wear the Yellow badge with Jude clearly written on it; are forbidden to live with or marry non-Jews; and are forbidden to leave their town without written consent, in accordance to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This decree, signed by Reinhard Heydrich (a chief architect of the Holocaust), would take effect on the 19th.

The shipyard in Leningrad is attacked, sinking submarines P-2 and M-74 and cruisers Maksim Gorki and Kirov are also attacked.

In Paris, France, German authorities issue a decree stating any man concealing or assisting a British Airman would be shot and any woman would be sent to a concentration camp.

Hitler orders attacks on Leningrad to halt, leaving the people to starve.

Future United States of America President John F. Kennedy is enlisted into the US Navy.

The Einsatzgruppen massacres between 50 thousand to 96 thousand Ukrainians, including 33,771 Jews, at the Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev. These figures were documented by the Einsatzgruppen and it shows just how effective their brutality was.

Hitler orders for Leningrad to be wiped out militarily, cancelling the previous order to let them starve.

Soviet resistance prevents the Germans from moving from southern Ukraine into the Crimea region.

1,466 Jews, consisting of 366 adult males, 483 adult females and 597 children, are murdered in Trakai, Lithuania.

The Chinese military at Changsha declares victory at the Second Battle of Changsha after pushing Japan back to the Yueyang region.

Nazi war photographer Johannes Hähle turns into his superiors 108 photos titled 'insatz im Osten' (in the East) of aftermath of the massacre of Babi Yar, the largest massacre in the Soviet Union campaign by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.