Oh, so the USSR is a shining example of all that is true and good, for you?
After all, you believe them and cite them.
Story of First Greek Soldier to Die in official action in WW II:
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greece/History/Portraits/MordechaiFrizis.html
Mordechai Frizis was a Jewish Greek military colonel who died in action during World War II.
Mordechai Frizis was born on January 1, 1893, in the town of Chalkis (on Euboea, Modern Greece’s second-largest island), son of Jacob, he was one of twelve brothers and one sister. He died in battle on December 7, 1940.
Mordechai graduated in law from the Athens University, his parents believed he would one day be a lawyer but this particular son saw a different road for himself. The Balkan Wars of 1912-3 installed a sense of patriotism in young Mordechai. In 1916 he entered as an officer in training in Euboea.
In the Turkish-Greek war of 1921-1922 Lieutenant Mordechai and his soldiers were captured by the Turks. As a non Christian officer he was offered his freedom. Mordechai refused, enduring eleven months of captivity with his Greek soldiers.
The Greco-Italian War started on October 28, 1940 and marked the beginning of the Balkans Campaign of World War II. By then Italy had concentrated a large part of the Italian Army in neighboring Albania boarding Epirus. Italy’s ambassador in Athens handed an ultimatum from Mussolini to Ioannis Metaxas, Greek General and the Prime Minister of Greece, to “Surrender!”. To the Greek people responding in one word: “Okhi Day” (Greek for “No”). This day has come to be known as Okhi Day (Oxi Day) and is celebrated throughout Greece on October 28 each year. Within hours Italy was attacking Greece from Albania.
By now Mordechai was a Major in the Greek army, based out of Ioannina in Epirus, Greece, commanding the Independent Division, his orders to stop Italian attacks from Albania and through the narrow valleys and ravines of Northern Greece.
December 4, 1940 Major Frizis and his men encounter the Italians for the first time. Mordechai never left his men during fighting and always though of their interests first earning him the strong loyalty of his soldiers he would call them his “boys”, they inturn gave themselves the nickname the “Frizaens” or Frizis’s boys. His troops would be the first to be captured by Italian soldiers.
During the crossing of the Vistritsa River, mounted as always on his horse, Mordechai, lead his troops against Italian and he is fatally wounded but refuses to dismount, choosing instead to rally his soldiers with the now famous battle cry “Ayeras” (Courage in Greek) which every Greek still learns about from the moment they go to school.
Not having a Rabbi near a priest was brought over. He place his hand on Mordechai’s head and prayed: “Hear, O Israel, the lord our God, the Lord is one”. Colonel Mordechai Frizis, was the first officer in the Greek Army to be killed in World War II.
One December 17, 1940 the Vradhini newspaper declared that Mordechai Frizis’ name was written in golden letters in the Pantheon of Heroes who had sacrificed their lives for the independence of Greece.
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as a footnote sidestory. The island to the north of where the book “captain coreli’s mandolin” is set is called Zykinthos. The Germans sent a communication to the mayor and bishop of the island to produce a list of all the jewish people on the island. The mayor sent a letter back with two names. His and the Bishop’s. Signed by both. The island hid any people of the jewish faith.