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Today in World War II History—August 26, 1941

Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Sarah Sundin
Paul Collette, 1941 (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Paul Collette, 1941 (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

80 Years Ago—Aug. 26, 1941: Nazis round up 23,600 Hungarian and Ukrainian Jews in Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine; over the next few days they will become victims of the first large-scale Nazi massacre.

Former (and future) Vichy French prime minister Pierre Laval is shot and wounded near Versailles by Paul Collette, a résistant acting alone; Collette is arrested but survives the war.

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