Reinforced Platoon of 72 men from the 2nd Battalion under the command of Leutnant Peter Mürbe. The objective, capture the unfinished airfield at Kastelli Kissamos. (This platoon landed upon 2 battalions of Greek troops and large groups of armed civilians. Leutnant Mürbe and 58 other Fallschirmjäger were killed. The 13 surviving paras under the command of Feldwebel Kroll were forced to surrender late in the morning. Were it not for the intervention of the New Zealand commander in the Kastelli area, Major Bedding, the paras would have been executed. Some of the killed and missing Fallschirmjäger of Kampftruppe Mürbe were later found to have been badly mutilated)
Had anyone heard of this?95th Gebirgs Pioneer Battalion – Major Schatte (as this unit fought its way westward to Kastelli, it took fire from groups of armed civilians, which included women and children. They also found many mutilated Fallschirmjäger who had been the victims of these partisans. During the night of May 20th/21st, these armed bandits roamed the countryside looking for dead and dying paras. Nearly 140 men from III/LL.St.Rgt were allegedly murdered or mutilated during that night at the hands of Cretan civilians.)
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