Word: cretan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glory, of which the Battle of Greece was made, was not in the Cretan fabric. This fight was all grimness. The ruses here were dastardly. The British charged that the Germans would make captives walk before them as human shields; the Germans charged that disguised British would wave the swastika in apparent triumph on a hilltop, and when the Germans rallied around the British would cut them down. The British charged that the Germans used Anzac uniforms; the Germans charged that the British tortured prisoners...
...Nazi banners flew beside the cool flags of Greece rippling over Crete. But above the island's snow-streaked mountains, above its olive groves and fields of fire-colored poppies, roared the Nazi advance guard-dark Stukas and silvery Junkers bombing Greek and British transports and warships in Cretan harbors...