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Posted by miss elizabeth (U10895934) on Thursday, 3rd March 2011
Whilst on holiday in Zante we were shown a huge 'cross' on the mountainside. The local guide told us it was "to remember all the Greeks that collaborated with the Nazis during the war".
Can anyone enlighten me who killed the Greeks?
The Nazis or the Greeks themselves?
During WWII Greece was occupied first by Italy and then by Germany. But all countries who were under occupation during WWII had a few Nazi collaborators, Greece was no different in that. And like everyone those who did collaborate (for whatever reason) were in the extreme minority and, in Greece, are reviled to this day.
It was the civil war that occurred after WWII in which Greeks were killing Greeks, not during Nazi occupation.
Thankyou. I thought it was 'pay back' time for consorting with the enemy.
But to throw them off the cliff!
It wasn't because of simple consorting. Whole families or entire villiages could be and were executed (that's every man, woman and child) for knowing, supplying support or help to resistance groups or allied forces. All that because of one person's betrayal, I couldn't even begin to imagine how I'd react in such a situation.
Wasn't Greek resistance a little like the situation in Yugoslavia? You could find yourself deep in the smelly stuff with one resistance group for supporting their (political) rival Greek resistance group?
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