The unit was thereafter transferred to Crete for garrison duty in " Fortress Crete " and mop-up operations in the Aegean , playing a major role in the Battle of Leros under the command of Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller . During September 1943 , forces of the unit committed numerous atrocities in Viannos . On 26 April 1944 the divisional commander , Generalmajor Heinrich Kreipe , was abducted by a British Special Operations Executive team led by Major Patrick Leigh Fermor and Capt Bill Stanley Moss . Kreipe 's car was ambushed at night on the way from the divisional headquarters at Ano Archanes to the Villa Ariadne at Knossos and he was taken cross-country over the mountains to the south coast where he and his captors were picked up by a British vessel near Rodakino on 14 May . This operation was later portrayed in the book '' Ill Met by Moonlight '' ( 1950 ) written by Moss based on his wartime diaries , later adapted as a film of the same name . In late summer 1944 , forces of the division were involved in more atrocities in Anogeia and Amari
Amari
Holocaust of Kedros
22nd Air Landing Division (Wehrmacht)