Crete vs Germany

There are still signs of the fighting during WW2 when German troops invaded Crete, the subsequent occupation lasted 3 years with German troops brutally punishing locals for infractions. When I asked our hotel owner about an old German machine gun mounted on his wall, he told me his father was a Freedom fighter fighting the Germans. When Germans seized the local fishing boats, a battle ensued with the killing of German troops. The enraged Germans executed 25 men and boys and sent 35 local men to concentration camps, none returned. I found a piece of bomb shrapnel on a hill side above our hotel. 

The irony is all the German tourists here now.