Posted on 05/21/2015 8:13:40 AM PDT by Kolokotronis
On June 2, 1941 a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, just west of the city of Hania. The Battle of Crete had just completed and the Allied forces surrendered the island to the invading Nazis. Despite the outcome, the battle changed the course of World War II history and was epic on so many levels, including the fierce resistance that the Nazis encountered from the local Cretan population.
The Nazis were dumbfounded by the resistance, never having experienced such ferocious fighting from civilians anywhere else in Europe.
As retribution for so many German losses, General Kurt Student ordered a long series of mass reprisals against the people of Crete. The massacre at Kondomari was the first, starting what would be a brutal campaign of terror, attempting to instill fear in the local population.
The massacre was photographed by a German army war correspondent named Franz-Peter Weixler whose negatives were discovered several decades later in the federal German archives and show a macabre and detailed chronology of what transpired on that fateful day in the tiny Greek village that lost most of its male population. Almost 70 men were assassinated by firing squad that day.
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My oldest son has been going to Germany for many years now, and tries to go once a year. He speaks the language fluently. He’s over there now. Each time he goes, he tries to visit a different country, along with his regular stays in Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin. He’s been to Warsaw in the past, so this time he went to Krakow and Gdansk. He’s in Berlin now. The trains are on strike this week. They go on strike on and off periodically. He had planned on going back to Peenemünde today, but the strike put the kibosh to that idea. A friend from Hamburg who is a rail engineer is picking him up in Berlin today, and he’ll be staying with him in Hamburg until he flies out of there on Monday.
Wow, The World at War has been gone from Youtube for a long time. When did it come back?
“And why are we almost NEVER reminded of what the Japanese did?”
I think it is because they are not white or western.
Maybe I will find the article later, what is very interesting is our coach, Klinsmann went to Israel in some sort of role for Germany, I don’t want to say apologist role but some sort of diplomatic role and as a celebrity.
This is not long ago but it’s not since he became our coach either.
Yup...you got it right. The German enablers of Turks as they massacred the Christian population of Anatolia aka Turkey...4 million people dead...were the precursors of the Nazis and today’s MUSLIM nazis ISIS.
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