Protests Outside German Embassy on Distomo Massacre

Seventy years have passed since the massacre of 218 inhabitants of the village Distomo by the Nazi troops on June 10, 1944. The Distomo massacre is considered one of the largest civilian massacres in Greece by the German occupying forces. The Hamburg-based lawyers group “AK Distomo Action Group” and the National Council for the Reclamation of Germany’s Debts to Greece held on Saturday at 11 a.m a rally in Syntagma Square and then a protest march to the German Embassy located in Kolonaki, central Athens.  After the end of the protest outside the German Embassy, members of the “AK Distomo Action Group” and the National Council for the Reclamation of Germanys Debts to Greece will travel to Distomo to participate in commemorative events which will take place on Tuesday June 10. The events include a memorial service for the victims of the massacre, a ceremony at the mausoleum of Distomo and a joint press conference of the two groups. On June 10, 1944, Waffen-SS troops executed 218 people including women and children in the small Greek village of Distomo near Delphi as part of a “retaliation measure” for a partisan attack upon the unit.  The survivors said that SS forces “bayoneted babies in their cribs, stabbed pregnant women, and beheaded the village priest.”

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