World War II Chronicle: August 1, 1941

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Sports section is on page 25… While not in the newspaper, SS-Standartenführer Hermann Fegelein’s SS Cavalry Brigades begin a search and destroy operation in Byelorussia’s Pripyet Swamp. Nazi documents show that over the next several weeks the troopers killed 14,178 Jewish men, women, and children; 1,001 partisans; and 699 Red Army soldiers. Historical research indicates that as many as 30,000 Jews were killed during the operation. Fegelein later married Eva Braun’s sister — Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler were witnesses — and was murdered after abandoning his post at the Führerbunker in the final days of World War II.

Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 1 August 1941. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1941-08-01/ed-1/