Today in World War II History—July 31, 1941
Saturday, July 31, 2021 by Sarah Sundin

Reinhard Heydrich and Karl Hermann Frank in Prague Castle, 1941 (German Federal Archive: Bild 146-1972-039-26)
80 Years Ago—July 31, 1941: Reinhard Heydrich, SS General of the Police, is ordered by the German government to solve the “Jewish question.”
Cease-fire is ordered in the Peru-Ecuador border clash, but Peruvians occupy large part of Ecuador.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill approves a joint UK-US atomic weapons program to be conducted in the US.