Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis for The New York Times - Giannis Syngelakis at a mass grave in Amiras, Greece, for local men killed by the Nazis.

 
By SUZANNE DALEY
Published in the NYT: October 5, 2013

“AMIRAS, Greece — As they moved through the isolated villages in this region in 1943, systematically killing men in a reprisal for an attack on a small outpost, German soldiers dragged Giannis Syngelakis’s father from his home here and shot him in the head. Within two days, more than 400 men were dead and the women left behind struggled with the monstrous task of burying so many corpses…”
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