Drakia massacre

The Drakia massacre ( Greek Σφαγή της Δράκειας ) committed by SS soldiers on December 18, 1943 against men from the Greek village of Drakia ( Δράκεια ) on the Pelion peninsula in Thessaly .

Memorial to the victims of the Drakia massacre

The massacre was preceded by the killing of two German soldiers. 116 men in the village were executed in retaliation against partisans of the Greek resistance during the occupation of Greece in World War II .

Every year, a wake is held in memory of the victims, attended by members of the Greek Parliament and the Greek President .

The village was recognized as a place of martyrdom in 2000 .

Individual evidence

^ Riki van Boeschoten: Broken Bonds and Divided Memories: Wartime Massacres Reconsidered In a Comparative Perspective . In: Oral History, 2007, pp. 39-48. On-line
↑ Anna Maria Droumpouki: The posthumous split memory of Kalavryta . In: Chryssoula Kambas, Marilisa Mitsou (ed.): The occupation of Greece in the Second World War. Greek and German culture of remembrance . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22467-7 , p. 147.
↑ Presidential Decree 99 of March 10, 2000 (ΦΕΚ A 97/2000)

Remarks

↑ According to another source, 133 men were executed (Mavri Vivlos tis katochis / Black Book of the Occupation. Athens 2006, p. 77.)

[1] Riki van Boeschoten: Broken Bonds and Divided Memories: Wartime Massacres Reconsidered In a Comparative Perspective . In: Oral History, 2007, pp. 39-48. On-line

[2] Anna Maria Droumpouki: The posthumous split memory of Kalavryta . In: Chryssoula Kambas, Marilisa Mitsou (ed.): The occupation of Greece in the Second World War. Greek and German culture of remembrance . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22467-7 , p. 147.

[4] Presidential Decree 99 of March 10, 2000 (ΦΕΚ A 97/2000)

[3] According to another source, 133 men were executed (Mavri Vivlos tis katochis / Black Book of the Occupation. Athens 2006, p. 77.)