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Drakeia Massacre
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Memorial_de_Drakeia.jpg/180px-Memorial_de_Drakeia.jpg) Monument in memory of the 115 victims of the 1943 massacre in Drakeia, Mount Pelion, Greece.
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Location
| Drakeia, Mount Pelion, Greece
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Date
| 18 December 1943
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Target
| Civilians
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Attack type
| Mass murder
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Deaths
| 115
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Perpetrators
| 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division
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Motive
| Nazi reprisals
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Inquiry
| None
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Accused
| None
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Convicted
| None
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The
Drakeia massacre
(
Greek
:
Η σφαγ? τη? Δρ?κεια?
) refers to the mass execution of 115 men by
SS
soldiers in the village of
Drakeia
, located on
Mount Pelion
, in
Thessaly
, on 18 December 1943. It was part of the multiple
Nazi reprisals
against the
Greek Resistance
in
occupied Greece
.
[1]
[2]
A
wake
in memory of the victims is held in the area every year, in the presence of members of the
Greek Parliament
, members of the
Government of Greece
and other dignitaries.
References
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- ^
Van Boeschoten, Riki, "Broken Bonds and Divided Memories: Long-term Effects of War Atrocities in a Greek Mountain Village", European Association of Social Anthropologists (2004)
- ^
Foot, John,
Italy's Divided Memory
, Palgrave Macmillan (2009) p.146
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