25th September
1939
Final German assault on Warsaw
Soviet troops along the Estonian border include 600 tanks and 600 aircraft and 160 000 men.
1940
Vichy French aircraft return to Gibraltar for a second day of bombings.
1941
German and Romanian troops seize the Perekop Isthmus, linking the Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian mainland.
1942
Swiss Police Instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1943
The German Armed Forces command issued a public decree for the removal from service of anyone classified as a 'Mischling of the First Degree', a person who had two Jewish, or otherwise non-Aryan, grandparents.
1944
British troops pull out of Arnhem with failure of Operation Market Garden. Over 6,000 paratroopers are captured.
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