Word: kalavryta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an old man called "Barba," a patriarch of the mountain town of Kalav-ryta, sighed and said: "The blood my family has shed in Kalavryta would fill three whole barrels...
Almost every village had stories to tell of German torture chambers, narrow boxes studded with nails in which men were forced to stand until they fell exhausted. At Kalavryta the Nazis had machine-gunned the entire male population -700 men and boys. Some 1,300 women and girls escaped only because an Austrian soldier let them out of a burning building. The Germans shot...