Anti-fascist resistance movement in Greece during World War II
A German soldier in front of a sign erected after the razing of Kandanos. The sign reads: "Kandanos was destroyed in retaliation for the bestial ambush murder of a paratrooper platoon and a half-platoon of military engineers by armed men and women."Massacre of civilians in Kondomari by German paratroopers in 1941.
The Cretan resistance (Greek: Κρητική Αντίσταση) was a resistance movement against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy by the residents of the Greek island of Crete during World War II.[1] Part of the larger Greek resistance, it lasted from 20 May 1941, when the German Wehrmacht invaded the island in the Battle of Crete, until the spring of 1945 when they surrendered to the British. For the first time during World War II, attacking German forces faced in Crete a substantial resistance from the local population. In the Battle of Crete, Cretan civilians picked off paratroopers or attacked them with knives, axes, scythes, or even bare hands. As a result, many casualties were inflicted upon the invading German paratroopers during the battle.
^Kokonas, Nikos (2004). Cretan Resistance 1941–1945. Athens: Mystis. ISBN 9789930494950.
The Cretanresistance (Greek: Κρητική Αντίσταση) was a resistance movement against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy by the residents...
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Crete, the organization "Supreme Committee of Cretan Struggle" (AEAK) was founded. The first major resistance organization to be founded was the National...
wall. The monastery played an active role in the Cretanresistance to Ottoman rule during the Cretan revolt of 1866. 943 Greeks, mostly women and children...
the British Royal Navy and the remainder surrendered or joined the Cretanresistance. The defence of Crete evolved into a costly naval engagement; by the...
scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretanresistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest...
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Special Operations Executive (SOE) operations on Crete, as part of the Cretanresistance. During the postwar years he was at first mistakenly imprisoned as...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor and William Stanley Moss, with the support of the Cretanresistance. Kreipe was born in 1895, the thirteenth child of a Lutheran pastor...
for the SPD-dominated Iron Front as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Nazism in 1932, it became an official symbol of the Party during...
the easternmost prefecture of Lasithi. It did not take long for the Cretanresistance to spring up. They assisted Allied soldiers stranded on the island...
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would be released. Special Operations Executive agents aiding the Cretanresistance usually carried grey rubber suicide pills, which were known as "cough...
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increased dramatically.[citation needed] It is believed that the first Cretan palaces were built soon after c. 2000 BC, in the early part of the Middle...
Candia and Crete in general, that is today known as the Cretan Renaissance. During the Cretan War (1645–1669), the Ottomans besieged the city for 21 years...
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once by Nazi Germany (1941–1944). Resistance took many forms. During the occupations, there arose parallel resistance movements in Lithuania that had competing...
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