The answer: Complete annihilation of their village and the massacre of 180 innocent Cretan civilians. The razing of the village
On June 2, 1941 a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, just west of the city of
Nazi German forces took control of the Greek island of Crete on June 1, 1941 after facing fierce resistance from
May 31, 1944 was a somber day in world history, when an ancient community was forever extinguished from the face of the
On May 20, 1941 the islanders of Crete were awakened by the sound of airplanes — hundreds of them —
During this week in 1941, my parents’ families on the island of Crete—including my teen-aged father and his parents woke
In May of 1941, one of the most epic battles of World War II was raging on the Greek island
For the first time in history, an invading force used the air as its medium to invade an island fortress.
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