The Kalavryta massacre (Greek: Σφαγή των Καλαβρύτων), or the Holocaust of Kalavryta (Ολοκαύτωμα των Καλαβρύτων), was the near-extermination of the male population and the total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, Axis-occupied Greece, by the 117th Jäger Division during World War II, on 13 December 1943.

Definition. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers". It also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history". The first recorded use in English of the word massacre in the name of an event is due to Christopher Marlowe, who …

Kalavryta (Greek: Καλάβρυτα) is a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece.The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos, 24 kilometres (15 miles) south of Aigio, 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Patras and 62 km (39 miles) northwest of Tripoli.Notable mountains in the municipality are Mount Erymanthos in the west ...

Massacre of Cretan civilians at Kondomari, Crete, 1941 The Battle of Crete was not the first occasion during the Second World War where the German troops encountered widespread resistance from a civilian population, as similar events took place during the invasion of Poland ( Kłecko ), nevertheless it initially surprised and later outraged them.

On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.. A new village was built nearby after the war. President Charles de Gaulle ordered that the ruins of the old village be maintained as …

Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (29 August 1897 – 20 May 1947) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.He led an infantry regiment in the early stages of the war and by 1943 was commander of the 22nd Air Landing Division.Under his orders, troops of the division committed atrocities against Greek civilians.

The Arnsberg Forest massacre, in which 3 mass killings of 208 slave labourers and Prisoners of war, mostly Russian and Polish, took place in March 1945.; Unrestricted submarine warfare against merchant shipping was another war crime.; Nazi looting of Poland; Commando Order which stated that Allied combatants encountered during commando operations were to be …

Mytilene is located in the southeastern part of the island, north and east of the Bay of Gera. It has a land area of 107.46 square kilometres (41.49 sq mi) and a population of 36,196 inhabitants (2001). With a population density of 336.8/km 2 it is by far the most densely populated municipal unit in Lesbos. The next largest towns in the municipal unit are Vareiá (pop. 1,254), Pámfila …

16: The first reports of the Katyn massacre in Poland seep to the West; reports say that more than 22,000 prisoners of war were killed by the NKVD, who eventually blame the massacre on the Germans.: Stalin for the ninth time demands a "Second Front," accusing his …

Creation of the Wehrmacht. When the Nazi Party came to power, it was welcomed by almost the entire officer corps of the Reichswehr as a way of creating the Wiederwehrhaftmachung (remilitarization) of Germany, namely the total militarization of German society in order to ensure that Germany did not lose the next war. As such, what both the Nazis and the German Army …