'I knew he had been executed, but I didn’t know about the photograph,' said Thrasyvoulos Marakis from Platanias, Crete, about his grandfather, Thrasyvoulos Kalafatakis, who was among the 200 men executed in WWII by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944
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'I knew he had been executed, but I didn’t know about the photograph,' said Thrasyvoulos Marakis from Platanias, Crete, about his grandfather, Thrasyvoulos Kalafatakis, who was among the 200 men executed in WWII by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944
The British scientists created their application by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology
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'I knew he had been executed, but I didn’t know about the photograph,' said Thrasyvoulos Marakis from Platanias, Crete, about his grandfather, Thrasyvoulos Kalafatakis, who was among the 200 men executed in WWII by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944
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Newly surfaced images appear to show the execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters during Nazi Occupation in 1944
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A military and historical assessment of the most decisive battle of World War II, by Soviet General Pavel Batov
How Dionysios Solomos challenged historical orthography and contributed to the establishment of the monotonic system
A military and historical assessment of the most decisive battle of World War II, by Soviet General Pavel Batov
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The masterful performance from the National Theatre in London is being broadcast with Greek subtitles this Thursday, February 19th.
The masterful performance from the National Theatre in London is being broadcast with Greek subtitles this Thursday, February 19th.
