The most infamous examples in the German zone are those of the village of Kommeno on 16 August 1943 , where 317 inhabitants were executed by the 1 . '' Gebirgs-Division '' and the village torched , the " Holocaust of Viannos " on 14 – 16 September 1943 , in which over 500 civilians from several villages in the region of Viannos and Ierapetra in Crete were executed by the 22 . '' Luftlande Infanterie-Division '' , the " Massacre of Kalavryta " on 13 December 1943 , in which Wehrmacht troops of the 117th Jäger Division carried out the extermination of the entire male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town , the " Distomo massacre " on 10 June 1944 , where units of the Waffen-SS '' Polizei '' Division looted and burned the village of Distomo in Boeotia resulting in the deaths of 218 civilians and the " Holocaust of Kedros " on 22 August 1944 in Crete , where 164 civilians were executed and nine villages were dynamited after being looted . At the same time , in the course of the concerted anti-guerrilla campaign , hundreds of villages were systematically torched and almost 1,000,000 Greeks left homeless
Massacre of Kalavryta
Massacre of Kalavryta
Axis occupation of Greece