Word: peiraeus
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...Athens and Peiraeus alone, between 1,700 and 2,000 men, women & children are dying each day. Not all starve to death. Cholera, typhus, typhoid and dysentery run like a licking brush fire through the weakened population. In mountain settlements and island villages people live a little better. They can find roots, herbs and mussels...
...early as mid-September men and women fainting from hunger were a common sight in the streets of Athens, Salonika, Peiraeus. Bread, wheat and flour were the first commodities the Germans confiscated. Later they took tomatoes, sent them to Libya, where German troops were suffering from scurvy. Dried figs and raisins, now the staples of Greek diet, also are being commandeered, shipped to Germany...
Having spotted numerous British transports, and proceeding to bomb many of them in Peiraeus and off Chalchis, the Germans accused the British of planning another Dunkirk. "Pay close attention to your ports," they urged the Greeks, "because when British transports come for a second time-empty-it is high time to capitulate." This week the Germans claimed they had bombed and sunk five British transports which were trying to evacuate troops...
...pulled in their horns while their patrols prodded for vulnerable spots, and the Luftwaffe went to work on the Allies' communications. The chief British-Greek ports of supply were Peirae-us, the port of Athens, and Volos, the port for Larissa. Both are inadequate. In the basin of Peiraeus, ships have to be parked by hawser, like so many cars in a tiny square. And these inadequate roadsteads were connected with the front by just one single-track railroad, by just one good road...
...wave after wave - sometimes 16 waves in quick succession - the Nazis went for the ports. This week they claimed that dive-bombers had sunk 30,000 tons of British transports in Peiraeus. They went for freight trains hauling heavy tanks, heavy trucks with enormous anti aircraft trailers, radio cars, searchlight trailers, troop-carrying busses. They went, carelessly, for hospital units. They went, in blissful ignorance, for lorries carrying the harmless stuff which could only be going to a British force in the midst of a desperate stand: tins of Australian beef, cases of toothpicks, cartons of boot polish...