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to undertake enquiries and reprisals. Thus, seeking to counter insurgency and before enquiries were complete, Student issued an order to launch a wave of reprisals against the local population immediately after the surrender of Crete on 31 May. The reprisals were to be carried out rapidly, omitting
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British. In May 1947, he came before a military tribunal to answer charges of mistreatment and murder of prisoners of war and civilians by his forces in Crete. Greece's demand to have Student extradited was declined. Student was found guilty of three out of eight charges and
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Franz-Peter Weixler's testimony on the events in Kondomari
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Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance
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768:Κοντομαρί Χανίων ~ Η πρώτη εκτέλεση αμάχων στην Ευρώπη
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surrounded Kondomari. Trebes, a former member of the
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23 (German estimate), 60 Cretan men (other sources)
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2361:Protests against labour mobilization
818:from fallschirmjager.net with photos
714:Crete: The Battle and the Resistance
634:Crete: The Battle and the Resistance
378:ordered temporary commander General
350:Throughout the Battle of Crete, the
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675:, Yale University Press, 2001,
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2065:National Union of Greece (EEE)
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2647:Execution of Josef Salminger
1484:Occupation and collaboration
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346:Student's order on reprisals
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2683:Expulsion of Cham Albanians
1941:Jewish cemetery of Salonica
1792:Cephalonia (Acqui Division)
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613:War crimes of the Wehrmacht
603:List of massacres in Greece
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1846:Larissa concentration camp
1841:Haidari concentration camp
1055:Sebastiano Visconti Prasca
863:Greece during World War II
812:, Richard Hargreaves, 2011
522:After the summer of 1941,
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1874:Greek economy, 1941–1944
1588:Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller
1403:2nd New Zealand Division
947:Italian spring offensive
394:Luftlande-Sturm-Regiment
372:Luftwaffe's High Command
171:Luftlande-Sturm-Regiment
3230:Thessaloniki War Museum
2922:Christodoulos Tsigantes
2917:Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos
2747:Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz
1408:6th Australian Division
1250:Konstantinos Bakopoulos
996:Charalambos Katsimitros
654:, Schiffer Pub., 2001,
632:Beevor, Antony (1992),
579:4th New Zealand Brigade
396:1 under the command of
340:Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke
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2406:Killing of Franz Krech
2153:Executions of Kokkinia
2039:Dionysios Papadongonas
2034:Ioannis Plytzanopoulos
1448:1st Parachute Division
1167:(April–May 1941)
1015:Dimitrios Papadopoulos
791:Antill 2013, pp. 20–21
415:Kriegsberichterstatter
225:on 2 June 1941 during
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3387:Crete in World War II
3131:Archbishop Damaskinos
3088:Percentages agreement
2514:Konstantinos Ventiris
1901:Occupation Reichsmark
1453:5th Mountain Division
1280:Henry Maitland Wilson
1106:8th Infantry Division
368:5th Mountain Division
199:Massacre of Kondomari
114:35.50694°N 23.85611°E
38:Massacre of Kondomari
3303:The Guns of Navarone
3268:Ill Met by Moonlight
2947:3rd Mountain Brigade
2742:George Psychoundakis
2727:Patrick Leigh Fermor
2391:Pinerolo disarmament
1989:Georgios Tsolakoglou
1398:1st Armoured Brigade
1390:British Commonwealth
1272:British Commonwealth
1255:Georgios Tsolakoglou
1001:Konstantinos Davakis
782:, εκδ. Μετόπη, 1980.
778:Μαθιόπουλος, Βάσος.
750:. Free Press, 1993,
725:Kiriakopoulos, G.C.
598:Alikianos executions
493:Civilians being shot
254:, a German army war
168:of III Battalion of
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3126:Georgios Papandreou
2902:Emmanouil Tsouderos
2773:Operation "Animals"
2763:Operation "Albumen"
2484:Komninos Pyromaglou
2442:Red Terror (Greece)
2386:1943 Athens protest
2351:Gorgopotamos Bridge
2248:Evripidis Bakirtzis
2196:National Liberation
2091:Alcibiades Diamandi
2055:Security Battalions
2029:George S. Mercouris
2004:Sotirios Gotzamanis
1946:Baron Hirsch ghetto
1573:XXII Mountain Corps
1373:Epirus Army Section
1111:Epirus Army Section
577:, commander of the
524:Franz-Peter Weixler
411:Franz-Peter Weixler
366:, commander of the
252:Franz-Peter Weixler
207:Σφαγή στο Κοντομαρί
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3073:Lebanon Conference
2939:in the Middle East
2937:Greek Armed Forces
2927:Pafsanias Katsotas
2907:Sofoklis Venizelos
2594:Hellenic Army (ES)
2529:Kimonas Zografakis
2504:Vasileios Sachinis
2489:Antonis Fosteridis
2455:Non-EAM resistance
2120:Cham collaboration
2101:Vassilis Rapotikas
2024:Nikolaos Bourantas
2019:Friedrich Schubert
1994:K. Logothetopoulos
1644:Carlo Vecchiarelli
1245:Alexandros Papagos
991:Alexandros Papagos
816:Kondomari massacre
608:Razing of Kandanos
541:trial in Nuremberg
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117: /
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2756:Operations
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