FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941
FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941
The recent release of photos on Bundesarchiv/Wikipedia includes a long series of photos of this incident within the 1941 section only perhaps 4 or pages into the selection, three photos are here as an example, sorry if they are in reverse order
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Re: FJR shootings on Crete in June 1941
Peter, those aren't new as such, the reel of film shot off by Fanz-Peter Weixler of the shootings in Kondomari have been in the public domain at the BA for some time. See here for many more and some detail about these shootings and others.
http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic ... 75&t=28419
http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic ... 75&t=28419
Re: FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941
I'm trying to let members know that by going here
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... _year_1941
they can see a lot of this sequence, along with other photos of the fighting in Crete
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... _year_1941
they can see a lot of this sequence, along with other photos of the fighting in Crete
Re: FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941
There are discussions in our Holocaust & War Crimes Section on this:
Cretans atrocities against German Fallschirmjagers 1941
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37968
Fallschirmjägers and Warcrimes
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=30297
Cretans atrocities against German Fallschirmjagers 1941
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37968
Fallschirmjägers and Warcrimes
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=30297
Re: FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941
Other pics from Kondomari.Some of them are wearing British pith helmets.
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More..
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Re: FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941
Peter - are you sure they're British...and not Italian?
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Phylo
I'm fairly certain there British--Jean Yves-Nasse's Kreta book has other photos of them in use in the aftermath of the battle.A sought item.Max Schmeling is seen wearing one.Some other photos show British helmets being worn in jest.
Converted British tunics also being worn by returning Crete veterans in Germany.
Peter
I'm fairly certain there British--Jean Yves-Nasse's Kreta book has other photos of them in use in the aftermath of the battle.A sought item.Max Schmeling is seen wearing one.Some other photos show British helmets being worn in jest.
Converted British tunics also being worn by returning Crete veterans in Germany.
Peter
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Photos from Jean-Yves Nasse's Fallschirmjäger in Crete.
Rounded up Cretan civilians near Heraklion.
Rounded up Cretan civilians near Heraklion.
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Re: FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941
The Kondomari photos are said to have been taken by the PK correspondant Franz-Peter Weixler.Weixler was "afterwards court-martialled and jailed for illegally taking these photographs...later testified at the Nuremburg Trials in the Göring case".
Cretan accounts also mention this before the episode:
Cretan accounts also mention this before the episode:
The Gatekeepers of Galatas,Brian Taaffe,page 561.On 2 June at about 10 o'clock in the morning...a German paratrooper came runing up the road excitedly,frantically yelling something.
"Execution!Execution!Run away to the mountains.Dum dum!..Kaput!"
No one took him seriously.
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More photos from KONTOMARI village,mass execution.
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