Razing of Greek village and massacre of civilians by Nazi Germans, 1944
View of Anogeia after its razing.
The Razing of Anogeia (Greek: Καταστροφή των Ανωγείων) or the Holocaust of Anogeia (Greek: Ολοκαύτωμα των Ανωγείων) refers to the complete destruction of the village of Anogeia in central Crete (Greece) and the murder of about 25 of its inhabitants on 13 August 1944 by Germanoccupying forces during World War II.[1][2][3] This was the third time Anogeia was destroyed, as the Ottomans had destroyed it twice; first in July 1822 and again in November 1867, during the Great Cretan Revolt.[4]
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^Muñoz, Antonio. The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941–1944, McFarland, 2018, pp. 87–88. ISBN1476667845
^Kokonas, Nikos A., The Cretan Resistance 1941–1945, 1992, pp 91–94, ISBN978-960-85329-0-8