Razing of Vorizia
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The razing of Vorizia refers to the destruction of the village of Vorizia in Crete by aerial bombardment and the murder of five of its inhabitants on 27 August 1943 by German occupying forces during W
View of Vorizia after being destroyed
Group of Ju 87s in flight.
Axis occupation of Greece
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The occupation of Greece by the Axis powers began in April 1941 after the German invasion of Greece to assist its ally, Italy, in the Greco-Italian War had begun in October 1940. Following the Battle
1941. German soldiers raising the German War Flag over the Acropolis. It would be taken down by Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas in one of the first acts of resistance.
1944. Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and others on the Acropolis after the liberation from the Nazis
German artillery shelling the Metaxas Line
German soldiers in Athens, 1941