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Greek villages that helped British officers kidnap a Nazi general

The bearded goats watched suspiciously as I solemnly saluted the concrete monument surrounded by barbed wire. It marks the spot where one of the most daring feats of the Second World War took place, exactly 80 years ago. On the night of April 26, 1944, on this grassy verge just outside the Cretan village of… Read More »