Chronology of World War II

Saturday, August 9th


Roosevelt and Churchill


Roosevelt and Churchill
A man, his wife, and child are seen after they had left Minsk on 9 August 1941, when the German army swarmed in. The original wartime caption reads, in part: 'Hatred for the Nazis burns in the man’s eyes as he holds his little child, while his wife, completely exhausted, lies on the pavement.'