FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941

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FJR shootings on Crete in May/Jun 1941

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Post by Peter » 19 Dec 2008, 20:15

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

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Post by phylo_roadking » 19 Dec 2008, 20:43

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


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Post by Peter » 19 Dec 2008, 20:56

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

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Post by Peter H » 19 Dec 2008, 22:42

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

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Post by Peter H » 22 Dec 2008, 01:20

Other pics from Kondomari.Some of them are wearing British pith helmets.
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More..
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Post by phylo_roadking » 22 Dec 2008, 01:35

Peter - are you sure they're British...and not Italian? :wink:

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Post by Peter H » 22 Dec 2008, 05:08

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.

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Post by Peter H » 30 Dec 2008, 07:20

Photos from Jean-Yves Nasse's Fallschirmjäger in Crete.

Rounded up Cretan civilians near Heraklion.
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Post by Peter H » 19 Jan 2009, 05:47

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:
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.
The Gatekeepers of Galatas,Brian Taaffe,page 561.

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Post by CHARLEMAGNE 4 » 12 Nov 2014, 02:46

More photos from KONTOMARI village,mass execution.

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