An island that suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany immensely during World War II doesn’t forget the past too easily. In the September 20th Greek national elections, the historic town of Anogeia— burned to the ground by the Nazi Germans during the Second World War and twenty-five other villages throughout Crete didn’t give a single vote to the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

Golden Dawn scored its lowest voter totals in Crete, than anywhere else in Greece. On islands like Kos, besieged by the refugee crisis, the anti-immigrant nationalist party saw huge increases in new voters.

The town of Anogeia had 1604 people casting votes, which were split between the two leading parties of Syriza and New Democracy, as well as a dozen smaller parties— without a single vote for Golden Dawn.

Two dozen more entire villages on the island gave Golden Dawn zero votes. The names of the villages (in Greek) are below:

Ηρακλειο:
Καλάμι Βιάννου
Καμάρι Μαλεβιζίου
Καμαριώτη Μαλεβιζίου
Πολυθέας Μινώα Πεδιάδας
Πέρι Φαιστού
Αϊτάνια

Χανιά
Μαχαιρών Αποκόρωνα
Μελιδονίου Αποκόρωνα
Σέμπρωνα Πλατανιά
Σκαλωτής Σφακίων

Ρέθυμνο
Δριμίσκου
Αγίου Βασιλείου
Αγίου Ιωάννη Καλής Συκιάς
Λαμπιωτών
Μέρωνα
Αγίου Μάμαντος, Αβδελλά
Καλανδαρέ
Αξουλιβάδα
Έρφοι
Δήμου Ανωγείων

Λασίθι
Λούμα δήμου Αγίου Νικολάου
Γδόχια Ιεράπετρας
Κάτω Μετόχι
Μαρμακέτω
Λάστρο Σητείας
Ρούσσες Εκκλησιές

A similar phenomenon occurred in the January 2015 national elections.

Interviews below with locals show the fierce opposition to any neo-fascist or neo-Nazi element amongst the locals of Anogeia.