Timeline Monday 8 September 1941

Events on Monday 8 September 1941 2

• 1941 – 1944 Siege of Leningrad begins 872-day siege — 1 million civilians die The German siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941, and lasted 872 days until January 27, 1944. Approximately one million Soviet civilians died from starvation, disease and bombardment.
• 1941 Siege of Leningrad begins German and Finnish forces cut off the city The capture of Shlisselburg on 8 September severed Leningrad's last land link with the rest of the Soviet Union. The siege lasted nearly 900 days, and around a million civilians died, most of them from starvation.