The kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe was an operation executed jointly by the British Special Operations Executive and local resistance members in Crete in German-occupied Greece during the Second World
The abduction team
W. Stanley Moss' sketch of the abduction
British propaganda leaflet addressed to the German troops: "You are looking for him [Kreipe] in vain! He is long since in England!"
Plaque at Peristere Beach near the village of Rodakino, Crete, commemorating the extraction of Heinrich Kreipe in 1944.
The Holocaust of Kedros, also known as the Holocaust of Amari, was the mass murder of the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari Valley on the Greek island of Crete during its occupa
Memorial to the Battle of Potamoi.