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Municipality of Kommeno Δημοτική Ενότητα Κομμένου (Κομμένο) |
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| State : |
 Greece
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| Region : |
Epirus
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| Regional District : | Arta | ||
| Municipality : | Nikolaos Skoufas | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 39 ° 3 ' N , 21 ° 2' E | ||
| Height above d. M .: | 6 m (average) |
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| Area : | 14.354 km² | ||
| Residents : | 769 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 53.6 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Code No .: | 190403 | ||
| Structure: | 1 local community | ||
| Located in the municipality of Nikolaos Skoufas and in the Arta regional unit | |||
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Kommeno ( Greek Κομμένο ( n. Sg. )) Is a village in the same district of the municipality Nikolaos Skoufas the west of the Greek mainland in the region of Epirus . Kommeno is located south of the city of Arta, east of the mouth of the Arachthos River in the Ambrakia Gulf . The local community Kommeno with a total of 769 inhabitants consists of the two villages Kommeno with 626 inhabitants and Neos Synikismos (Νέος Συνοικισμός) with 143 inhabitants.
History of the village
From 1912 to 2010, Kommeno formed an independent rural community (kinotita), with the administrative reform of 2010 it was merged with three other communities to form the new community of Nikolaos Skoufas , where it has since formed a district and has the status of a local community.
In Kommeno, 317 residents were murdered by the Wehrmacht on August 16, 1943 . There were 172 women and 145 men. 97 of the murdered were younger than 15 years, 14 older than 65 years and 13 people were around one year old. The action of a company of the 1st Mountain Division under the command of Lieutenant Willibald Röser was not, as usual, a retaliation for a guerrilla attack . The reason was that on August 14, 1943, some resistance fighters had collected food in the village. Major Reinhold Klebe was in charge of the operational management of this mass murder . Lieutenant Colonel Josef Salminger was also involved .
Since 2008 there has been a drum workshop (Κρουστοπανήγυρις) in and around Kommeno on the initiative of Nick Touliatos. Günter “Baby” Sommer has been involved among the numerous foreign artists for many years; his album "Songs for Kommeno" was performed at the jazz festivals in Berlin, Zurich and Vienna.
See also
literature
- Mark Mazower : Inside Hitler's Greece . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2001, pp. 190-200.
- Hermann Frank Meyer, Bloody Edelweiss. The 1st Mountain Division in World War II , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-447-1 ( online ).
- Hermann Frank Meyer, Kommeno: narrative reconstruction of a Wehrmacht crime in Greece , Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-929889-34-X .
Web links
- ttt - title, theses, spirits : Bloody edelweiss. The whole truth about the war crimes of the mountain troops in the Second World War ( Memento from February 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on WDR, from Sunday, February 10, 2008
- August 16, 1943: Most of the village population was still asleep ... In the Swabian version of September 1, 2015 (classification in the German war crimes in Greece and Albania as a whole)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)