German Fallschirmjäger memorial in Greece. Unknow date. If you have more informations... Don't hesitate. This is one of my favorite photo. - - - - - - - - - Mémorial de Fallschirmjäger en Grèce. Date inconnue, si vous avez plus d'infos... N'hésitez pas. C'est l'une de mes photos préférées.

April 27, 1941: The German army enters the Greek capital, signaling the end of Greek resistance. All mainland Greece and all the Greek Aegean islands except Crete are under German occupation by May...

German Nazis murdered Greeks at Distomo in Greece The Greeks were terrorised by the German Nazis. Hitler said: "Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." (hitler quotes - Stormfront) Terror was part of the Nazi philosophy. (Blammo asked for some solid examples of NAZIs using terror as a philosophy.) Greece under the Nazis. In June 1944, Hitler's NAZIS attacked the Greek village of Distomo and killed 218 people. A German…

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Greece, 1941-1944. German occupation forces preparing the execution by hanging of a Greek resistant.

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German paratrooper on Crete

In April, five months after its troops had subdued the Italians, the glory that was Greece failed. Axis forces, mostly German, rushed in from Romania and Bulgaria. The Greeks, bolstered by 58,000 British soldiers, fought bravely again. But by late May the Nazi flag was hoisted over the Acropolis.

German paratrooper and two Greek gendarmes guard a pile of weapons surrendered by British soldiers captured in the town of Corinth, Greece, March-April 1941.

JU-52 Operation Mercury: German Paratroopers prior to boarding Junkers Aircraft: World War II in Greece prior to invading Crete

2.WW, Greece , conquest of Crete 'Operation Merkur' '20.05.-, war theatre:German parachuters taking a short recovery. May 1941

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An extraordinary photograph: While Gen Georgios Tsolakoglou (sitting, with glasses) signs the surrender of Greece to German forces, SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich is obviously enjoying a joke (?) with two Greek staff officers, who should have known better than fraternizing so openly with the enemy. Postwar, Tsolagoglou was sentenced to death for signing the surrender without authorization and collaborating with the enemy. He died in prison in 1948.