The Executions of Kokkinia (Greek: Μπλόκο της Κοκκινιάς) took place on the August 17, 1944, and was the largest Nazi roundup and one of the largest-scale...
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Executions of Kokkinia took place as a retaliation for the Battle of Kokkinia and more generally for the resistance of the working class suburbs of west...
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Nikaia, Attica (redirect from Kokkinia, Piraeus)
Nikaia metro station of line 3 situated on the city. Also served by buses (OSY). On August 17, 1944, took place the Executions of Kokkinia. It was the largest...
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squads started the executions in groups. When finished, dead bodies were doused in petrol and set on fire. In some cases, the executions were carried out...
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Alexander Löhr (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
after the annexation of Austria, he was a Luftwaffe commander. Löhr served in the Luftwaffe during World War II, rising to commander of Army Group E and then...
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The Alikianos executions (Greek: εκτελέσεις στον Αλικιανό) was the mass execution by firing squad of mostly male civilians from Alikianos and nearby villages...
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Dodecanese campaign (category Mediterranean Sea operations of World War II)
capture and occupation of the Dodecanese islands by German forces during World War II. Following the signing of the Armistice of Cassibile on 3 September...
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The Massacre of Kos (Italian: Eccidio di Kos) was a war crime perpetrated in early October 1943 by the Wehrmacht against Italian army POWs on the Dodecanese...
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Bruno Bräuer (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
Bräuer (4 February 1893 – 20 May 1947) was a general in the paratroop forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. He served as a commander on Crete (called...
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ELAS (category Military wings of communist parties)
guidance of the chief saboteur of ELAS Antonis Vratsanos with 450 German soldiers dead March 1944 – The battle of Kokkinia April 1944 – The battle of Kaisariani...
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