ENTRY TYPE

General Issues

SUMMARY

In May of 1944, German forces settle in Fthiotis and Boeotia aiming at their reformation and the control of partisan activities. On 10th June, the 2nd Company of the I/7 Battalion was ordered to clean the area around Distomo which was an enemy zone. The German forces moved to the village and when the village authorities refused to provide them with information concerning the partisans, they killed 233 out of the 300 village residents who had remained at their homes (the rest 1500 had already escaped) in the most merciless and fierce way. On the next day similar scenes took place in Kalami village, resulting in 22 victims, most of them women and children.