From Vienna
to Kalavryta
"Sühnemaßnahmen" auf der Peleponnes

Hermann Frank Meyer,
Von Wien nach Kalavryta. Die blutige Spur der 117. Jäger-Division durch Serbien und Griechenland
(From Vienna to Kalavryta. The bloodstained trail of the 117th Jaeger-Division through Serbia and Greece)
(Mannheim: Peleus, 2002)


The author has collated some statistics showing that 28 so-called “atonement measures” were carried out in the Peloponnese between 6th November 1943 and 5th August 1944. He counted as one measure each the many executions during the operations "Kalawrita", "Büffel" and "Stieglitz" and the shooting of the hostages taken in retaliation for the death of General Krech and his companions. All in all, at least 2,319 Greek hostages were hanged or shot. They were killed in retaliation for 300 Germans who were murdered, 70 declared missing and 40 wounded.
Date

Number of
deaths in
“atonement”

 Reason/Place
German victims
Dead Missing Wounded

6.11.43
24.11.43
26.11.43

2.12.43
5.12.43
7.12.43
5.-16.12.43
16.12.43
22.12.43
15.1.44
17.1.44
7.2.44
9.2.44
23.2.44
23.2.44
25.2.44

21.3.44
22.3.44
22.4.44

3.5.44


Early 5.44


9.5.44

16.5.44

16.5.44

17.5.44


6.6.44

23.7.44

5.8.44
18
20
118

58
48
25
Minimum 681
30
13
10
20
100
149
30
50
205

5
141
12

60


335


10

27

10

17


9

100

18
Attack on guard patrol near Isari
Attack on car
Attack on truck convoy between
Tripolis-Sparta and Sparta-Gythion
Attack on truck east of Aigion
Attack on Andritsa station
Attack on truck between Gythion and Areopolis
Operations Kalawrita, Büffel and Stieglitz
Attack on road betweenTripolis and Sparta
Attack near Molai
Killing of German sergeant
Attack on a German officer
Attack near Skala
Kalamata
Patras
Greek interpreter killed
Attack near Tripolis on truck convoy
with soldiers on leave
Assault on railway in Theodori
Attack on truck convoy near Alepochori
“Communists” shot in reprisals
for a Greek officer of the gendarme
“50 communists shot and 10
hanged for train sabotage
near Chani-Derveni”
“communists and partisan suspects”
shot by Germans and Greeks
in reprisals for Krech and others
Hostages hanged in Patras
for wounding two marines
For murdering a Greek Major
in Calamata
For“abducting/murdering” the
Greek garrison at Valtetsi
Hanged for sabotaging telegraph
poles on the Kamari-Derveni road
(NW Xylokastron)
Murder of a Greek lieutenant
of the gendarmerie
Attack on German medical convoy
near Vlacherna, Tripolis
Sabotage on transport train between
Chiliomodion and Corinth
1
1
8

2
10
10
78
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15

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