4 real historical locations · 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.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Greece.
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...
View location →The island capital where Captain Corelli's Italian regiment is garrisoned — and where the German betrayal of the Italian Acqui Division begins.
After Italy's armistice on September 8, 1943, the 11,000-man Acqui Division was ordered by the Germans to surrender its weapons. The division voted to resist. After six days of fighting, 5,155 Italian prisoners were s...
View location →The olive groves and beaches where the German 1st Mountain Division executed thousands of Italian prisoners after the Acqui Division's surrender.
The Cephalonia massacre of September 1943 was carried out under orders confirmed by Hitler personally. Of the Acqui Division's 11,500 men, approximately 5,000 were shot. Others drowned when the ships transporting them...
View location →The harbor where Italian troops first arrive on the island and where the German warships later bring the force that will overwhelm them.
Cephalonia's eastern port of Sami was the main landing point for both the Italian occupation forces in 1941 and the German reinforcements sent after the Italian armistice to disarm the Acqui Division in September 1943.
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