World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1941 October
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The government of the Third Reich decrees that no Jews will be allowed to leave Germany or the occupied territories. The Battle of Moscow begins. The third and fourth Panzer groups of Marshal Von Bock launch the first attack of Operation Typhoon (Taifun). As Hitler put it, “Today begins the last great battle that will be decisive in the war. The Germans intensify their attacks all along the Russian front. In the US, British and American scientists inform President Roosevelt that it would be possible to make an atom bomb of a weight of less than eleven kilos, with an explosive force equivalent to that of eight thousand tons of TNT (Trinitoluene). The news reach Stalin through Doctor Klaus Fuchs, who is working as a Soviet spy.