207:(i) Firstly it is historically accepted and recognised that the massacre is one of the greatest modern-era atrocities to occur on Greek soil, whoever were the protagonists. The treatment by the writer is dismissive and consequently offensive in that regard. (ii) It is not the case that all who were murdered at Meligalas were Security Battalion troops. It is historically agreed that a substantial majority of those who were murdered by the communist EAM-ELAS forces where simply local villagers, innocent by-standers caught in the seige itself and other male villagers rounded up from nearby settlements and villages by EAM-ELAS forces during the battle. It is highly offensive and inaccurate to describe those murdered by EAM-ELAS at Meligalas as "dead fascists." (iii) As Nazi forces had physically left SW Greece by September 1944 there was no "collaboration" to be had with the Nazis. The right-wing Security Battalion forces by this time were undertaking campaigns against communist EAM-ELAS forces in what were prelude activities to the Greek Civil War. It is inaccurate to term the forces at Meligalas as "Nazi collaboratists". (iv) It is known that EAM-ELAS forces often undertook armed hostile activities against unarmed local villagers in rural Greece who in general, being traditional and religious conservatives, were not in favour of the EAM-ELAS goal of communist rule in Greece. Meligalas is an extreme example of how far that hostility extended.
401:(Further edit) Foreign Office memos confirm Kannavos's report about the battalionists killing their hostages during the battle. The memo about Ares which I have just added is relevant to Moderatelyaverage's comment. I gather something similar happened at Kilkis - the road from Kilkis to Thessaloniki was lined with angry women and old people with sticks and rocks in their hands, and the ELAS guards were hard put to bring their prisoners in safely (needless to say the prisoners were promptly released and rearmed by the police in Thessaloniki). I would still like to know how many prisoners were brought into Kalamata by Ares.
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Peloponese. But! But the communist party (KKE) took the responsibility for "eliminating 800", that means kiling all solders, not civilians. That way you should not blame ELAS, but you can blame the KKE for the execution (without trial) of war prisoners. Certainly it has been the KKE ideology. I mean the ideology of kiling the nazi volounteers solders. --
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The ELAS regular formation executed some 180 prisoners, but after a trial, acused as a war criminals. Probably they were. And then the ELAS regulars went out of
Meligalas, the irregulars (together with ELAS militia) were about 4.000 men and they did the rest. You have to see it in a cultural aspect -
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Actually, the extermination of the nazi volunteers could be attributed to (a) the wrath of the people who had been bullied around by the
Security Battalions and the other collaborationists and black marketeers, (b) an impromptu application by the public of the Military Penal Code, which sentences
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Security Battalions were INDEED founded, organized and armed by the Nazi occupation forces. Therefore, they were by definition collaborationist groups. The rest of this pro-Security Battalion rhetoric reminds me too much of modern neo-nazi propaganda I've heard far too often. Please
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I have just expanded this article. I have changed the battle dates to fit with my sources, but I won't be offended if someone who knows better changes them back. It would be interesting to have more data on the question and number of prisoners - one source says that ELAS did all they could to
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Security Battalions, at Aprochomo and Meligala (leaving aside their activities in Kalamata).
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Fitnfun02 does NOT cite sources - in fact, the reference at the end of this article disproves his claims. To me, it seems that Fitnfun02 is disruptively editing/edit warring in order to promote a historical
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Fitnfun02 has not bothered to even post a single sentence in the article's talk page to explain his actions and views.
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English-language discussions on Greek history on the web, whereas the German equivalent have a much lower profile, and are vigorously opposed.
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