Today in World War II History—August 14, 1941

85 Years Ago—Aug. 14, 1941: Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter declaring general principles for a free postwar world. Roosevelt announces the US will not allow German U-boats to attack British shipping in the Western Hemisphere. German SS executes Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, after Kolbe volunteered to replace a condemned man; Kolbe will be canonized; the man he replaced,…