in detail
The monument is on the village square.
On 16 August 1943, in the course of a »cleansing operation« against resistance fighters in southwestern Greece, German soldiers shot dead 317 residents of the village of Kommeno or burned them alive in their houses. The reason for this operation was that, four days earlier, a German reconnaissance patrol had seen resistance fighters in the Kommeno market place. The massacre was carried out by the 12th company of the 98th regiment under Colonel Josef Salminger and Lieutenant Röser. Following it, all the houses in the village were set on fire. Nearly half the residents of the village managed to save themselves by swimming across the river.
The monument, erected in 1947, was funded by donations.
In the village of Kommeno in southwestern Greece, a company from the German Wehrmacht shot dead 317 village residents on 16 August 1943 during a »cleansing operation« directed against partisans.
The monument, which stands in the middle of the village square, commemorates the victims.
16. August 1943
317 villagers shot dead
1947
Monument erected
Kommeno, 2004, monument with plaque listing the names of those killed in action between 1912 und 1949, Alexios-Nikolaos Menexiadis.
Kommeno, 2004, the east side of the column with the names of those murdered on 16 August 1943, Alexios-Nikolaos Menexiadis.
