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title: GERMAN FLYER IN KEFALONIA

subject date: 2001-05-28

caption: WWII ITALY GREECE 1943 Cephalonia massacre, threatening manifesto launched by the Germans on the Italian troops after the armistice of Cassibile: ''(...) The delivery of weapons by Badoglio's army in Greece has been completely completed, without shedding blood. Only the Acqui Division, under the command of General Gandin [Antonio Gandin, 1891 – 24 September 1943], a partisan of Badoglio, stationed on the islands of Chefalonia and Corfu,(...) has rejected the offer of a peaceful delivery of weapons and has begun the fight (...) We German comrades do not want this fight. We therefore invite you to lay down your weapons and entrust yourselves to the German garrisons on the islands. (...) However, if the present unreasonable resistance continues, you will be crushed and annihilated (...) Anyone taken prisoner will then no longer be able to return to their homeland (...)''. As is well known, the Italians refused to accept the call to surrender, and 10,000 men from the Acqui Division, finance police, Carabinieri, and members of the Royal Navy were shot by the Germans. Greece, September 22, 1943.

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Seconda guerra mondiale

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subject century: XX

subject epoch: Seconda guerra mondiale

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KefaloniaWorld War IImessageultimatumGermanyGreeceItalyWorld War IIWWIIWWIIWW2massacremassacremassacreAcqui divisionForty yearsArmistice of CassibileRoyal Armycampaign Greecereversal of front