1 real historical location · Greece
Set on the Greek island of Kefalonia during Italian and German occupation, this romantic drama follows a young Greek woman's relationship with an Italian officer. Their idyll is destroyed when the Germans massacred the Italian garrison after Italy's 1943 armistice.
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Italian occupation of Kefalonia — and the Cefalonia massacre of September 1943 when German forces execute 5,000 Italian soldiers who refused to surrender.
When Italy signed the armistice in September 1943, the 11,500-strong Acqui Division on Kefalonia voted to resist German disarmament. After a week of fighting, the Germans won. Hitler personally ordered that no prisone...
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