μετά τη συνθηκολόγηση των Ιταλών τον Σεπτέμβρη του 1943 οι Γερμανοί κατάλαβαν ότι πρέπει να τελειώσουν μόνοι τους τη δουλειά.
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so they became more barbaric and ruthless than ever before
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σε ένα παραλιακό χωριό της Κορινθίας το Περιγιάλι, εκείνη την εποχή έδρευε η 117η Γερμανική Μεραρχία Καταδρομών, υπό τον στρατηγό Καρλ φον Λε Σουίρ
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the guerrilla war in the Peloponnese instead of diminishing, was becoming more and more intense.
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the Germans couldn't imagine it
that the Ragheads,
as they contemptuously call the ragged ELAS fighters,
αντι να μειώνονται και παρα τις κακουχίες ολοένα και πλήθαιναν.
writes Major Vazaios:
«το χειμώνα του 1943-1944 το 50% των ανταρτών ήσαν τελείως ανυπόδητοι, οι περισσότεροι δε, φορούσαν θερινή στολή χωρίς χλαίνη».
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So 100 Germans leave Perigiali to clear the passes connecting Patras with Tripoli.
only instead of cleaning up the «barefoot vagrants,» they clean themselves up...
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ο αήττητος στρατός του Χίτλερ συντρίβεται από ξυπόλητους και πεινασμένους αντάρτες,
who brought 60-year-old weapons, such as grenades, which fired old but deadly bullets.
The armament was supplemented by weapons from the heroic era, which they had inherited from their grandfathers, or even sabers or swords from the old Ottoman cavalry!
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κι όμως, με αυτό τον οπλισμό και αυτή την περιβολή, νικούν τους Γερμανούς που έχουν βαριές απώλειες. 20 νεκροί και 77 αιχμάλωτοι…
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negotiations begin for the rebels to release the Germans and, in return,
the Germans should also let some Greeks go free
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οι Γερμανοί κωλυσιεργούν στις διαπραγματεύσεις ενω έχουν βγάλει παράλληλα αποσπάσματα και ψάχνουν τους αιχμάλωτους με τους αντάρτες.
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οι ΕΛΑΣίτες το αντιλαμβάνονται και ζητούν άμεσα απάντηση.
οι Γερμανοί εξαπολύουν επιχείρηση στα Μαζέικα που όμως δε βρίσκουν ούτε αντάρτες ούτε αιχμάλωτους.
όμως μιας και πήγαν ως τα Μαζέικα, είπαν να σκοτώσουν κάποιους ντόπιους αγρότες για έτσι σεφτέ
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the ELASites are outraged and execute the German prisoners
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and then the Germans launch an attack on the entire mountain range of Kalavryta.
is the famous «Operation Kalavryta» (Unternehmen Kalavryta)
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from whichever village the German divisions pass and until they reach their destination they spread fire and death
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burn the villages
Rogers,
Kerpine,
Upper and Lower Zachlorou,
as well as at the Monastery of Megalo Spilaio, and they execute a total of 150 villagers...
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είναι μόνο το ορντέβρ,
the main harvest of the chariot will come when they reach Kalavryta
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on 13 December 1943, Monday, the beasts enter Kalavryta
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make sly promises that they are only looking for rebels and the inhabitants have no reason to fear
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κάποιοι που αρχικά πείστηκαν απ τον ΕΛΑΣ να φύγουν στο βουνό, βάζουν πίστη τελικά στις υποσχέσεις των Γερμανών και ΕΠΕΣΤΡΕΦΟΥΝ πίσω…
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then by order of the German commander, he gathers the entire population in the central square.
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There, they separate all men aged 13 and above,
and led them to a sloping site called
«Rachi tou Kapis» (Back of Kapis),
while women and children under the age of 13 were locked in the school.
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At the same time, other detachments of German soldiers and Greek battalion soldiers start looting and destroying the houses of the village...
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At noon, at 2:34 p.m.
(the clock of the town church remains stopped to this day),
A flare dropped from the city gave the signal.
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The thirty-five German soldiers wielding the shotguns and machine guns begin to mow down the prisoners.
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The killers finish their work with mercy shots....
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την ιδια ώρα βάζουν φωτιά και στα σπίτια του χωριού, αλλά δεν τους φτανει αυτό.
the killers also set fire to the school where the women and children had been trapped.
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Scenes of insanity follow.
women break school windows and throw children out.
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Finally, they open the door and start running.
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κι όμως δεν τους έφτασε αυτό το θανατικό
έπρεπε όποιος είχε γλυτώσει απ τις σφαίρες και τη φωτιά να πεθάνει απ το κρύο και την πείνα.
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So they began to methodically burn down every space, house, or barn within a large radius.
steal anything that might be useful
and destroy anything that could prolong life in the world during winter.
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A total of approximately 1,000 houses are burned down.
They steal over 2,000 goats and sheep and 260 million drachmas.
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the death toll will exceed 1,000 in the wider region...
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what inhumanity...!!!!!
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It is one of the greatest crimes of World War II in its entirety.
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PS. 1800 traitors participated in the Kalavryta massacre.
came from the security battalions
from Laconia,
the region of Ilia
and Corinth,
while groups of guards were also transferred from Thebes and Megara.
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PS2. WHEN WERE THE COLLABORATORS, THE TAGMATASFALITES, THE GERMANS' ACCOMPLICES, EVER BROUGHT TO JUSTICE?,
αυτοι που συμμετείχαν στα εγκλήματα των Καλαβρύτων,
ΑΝΤΙΘΕΤΑ, πολλοί απ αυτούς μεταπολεμικά, στελέχωσαν το κράτος…
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ΥΓ3. διάβασε στις εικόνες τις λεζάντες
He was released early, in January 1951, and died in West Germany at the end of 1965 at the age of 80 from old age...
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General Le Jouir died as a prisoner of the Soviets in 1954.
Two soldiers searched the Pantheon Hotel once again.
There they witnessed a birth.
The husband of the expectant mother, 40-year-old Vasilis Anastasopoulos, who had hidden in the attic, was arrested by the Germans just as he was about to help his wife give birth...
they arrested him and took him away...
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Akambhuber (head of the executive detachment) died in Austria in 1972.
