- Subject:
Re: Beevor's Account
- Posted by : Tim
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on Thu Apr 15 14:19:20 2004
- In Reply to : Re: Beevor's Account
- posted on: Thu Apr 15 13:00:15 2004
- Posting :
- Hi SJ
I think you may well be right, though in the case of the villages of Saktouria, Kamares, Lokhria and Margarikari, the 'notification' posted on 5th May in the Nazi-dominated newspaper 'Paratiritis, and the fact that the abduction party could hear the atrocities taking place, would suggest that it was other andarte activity that prompted that particular set of attrocities.
Certainly any excuse, any assistance rendered to the allies in any shape or form was seen as a valid reason for inflicting the most terrible of attrocities on any community.
The abduction of Kriepe was, and remains, a fantastic story that still enthralls many of us - but of course to consider the possible cost in Cretan lives rather detracts from it and so doesn't usually get considered in any depth.
There are those who thought the abduction idea completely hair-brained, and bound to backfire on the local population, which may in part account for why Billy Moss's attempt to repeat the abduction, but with Kriepe's successor, failed.
The note left in Kriepe's car fooled nobody for long, it must surely have quickly become clear that locals people will have 'aided and abetted' to some degree or other and to ignore that, and its consequences, is perhaps not so objective an account as it should be.
I'll add to this in a private email so as not to bore others.
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