September 1941

Eastern Front

Hitler orders the attack on Murmansk to be discontinued.

The Germans claim to have taken 290,000 men prisoner in the Kiev pocket as Soviet resistance collapses. Farther south, the 11th Army reaches the entrance to the Crimea, the LIV Corps attacking the Perekop Isthmus. The 6 defending Soviet divisions hold up the German advance. Elements of the XLIX Mountain Corps and the XXX Corps take up positions south of the Dniepr bend and at Melitopol.

Around Odessa the Soviets launch a sharp counterattack against their Rumanian besiegers and actually expand their perimeter, advancing around Grigoryevka.