https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/about daily 0.75 2026-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/d53186f8-5598-4449-b4b6-1b2bc531849b/hfm.jpg https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-07-26 https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/publications daily 1.0 2026-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/9ec49f8d-6989-4964-92e7-34e39074fef3/be.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/b97829ae-b9bb-4c0c-92fc-a0fd24af26f3/71Vcx0yevNL._AC_UF894%2C1000_QL80_.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/16939993-bf74-4853-b5bf-71c92334aa5c/Kommeno+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/7f9a1a4c-b24c-41f5-b88b-720ab3b7d558/Missing+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/d863ceae-2b0a-44cd-af3b-f08ed01d8a31/images-3+copy.jpg https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/bloodstained-edelweiss daily 0.75 2026-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/d4f757ef-32d3-4e6d-9353-63c7ec2e862f/book-4.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss In reprisal for a partisan attack in which no German soldier was killed, more than 100 civilians were murdered in Borovë, Albania, and the village was burned to the ground in July 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/6849975c-7229-4d54-ac98-b181c5d0888d/B107.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Suspected partisans before their execution, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/beb91c6f-727e-475e-9daa-b6e1a7b6903d/g70.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Giannis Gokas from Mousiotitsa survived the execution of 77 women and children by hiding beneath his mother's skirt, July 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/8c5ec951-a9a6-405e-9119-234ddb5b347f/1.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Mountain troops setting fire to homes, summer 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/5f6b8341-7023-46f3-834d-cd24c2998735/13.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss A village engulfed in flames, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/70ba2a94-79d9-4ab6-b084-b5fbdcad4716/19JK.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Hostage executions in Agrinio, Greece, March 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/3e2e0ff9-8c02-4072-a07f-9c74c0c523bf/101_06.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Before the occupation of the island of Corfu, October 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/bea8e731-028d-4722-a38e-feb229775089/101_32.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Italian soldiers on their way into captivity, October 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/9d94c170-e8b1-4c4c-a329-1b7a2177ff33/118.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Major Reinhold Klebe, commander of III./98, was responsible for the massacres of around 500 civilians in Mousiotitsa and Kommeno, and of hundreds of Italian prisoners on Kefalonia, July–September 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/ff92c417-2079-4cc3-8976-52e0d32e4c8a/140.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Hubert Lanz was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment at the Hostages Trial in Nuremberg, 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/87efdbd4-88b2-4e86-9744-5fc5ddef553a/148.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss First Lieutenant Willi Röser, 12./98, bore responsibility for the murder of 317 civilians in Kommeno on 17 August 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/f1811df2-4852-4d1e-bcbc-43b63a306e36/Ardena.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss After the murder of more than 2,000 Italian prisoners, hundreds more drowned in ship sinkings, autumn 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/2bfb221b-0adb-4351-a765-2652f367642b/B105.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss In Epirus alone, more than 300 villages were burned to the ground between July and October 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/a6bbb52b-39a7-432f-a940-08e15ec328a8/bild101I-05.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss About 2,000 Jews from Ioannina were deported to Auschwitz from the area under the command of the XXII Mountain Army Corps, March 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/eb58b155-94ad-4cd8-9589-a0c992109dbe/Bild101I-179-1575-15.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss 2,000 Jews from Ioannina were deported to Auschwitz from the area under the command of the XXII Mountain Army Corps, March 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/49990148-46bb-40b6-9368-7f9bd8a47b88/CEFALONA.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Murdered Italian prisoners, September 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/8d7a647b-8464-4502-934d-af68f1b30ee8/G34.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Since 1949, the veterans of 12./98 have held annual reunions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/0d4dd47d-dc65-4b27-af50-2e8dd87fd662/G42.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss The village of Lyngiades was burned to the ground and more than 80 women and children were murdered in retaliation for the death of Regiment Commander Salminger in a partisan attack, 3 October 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/b93c27c3-8a86-42fc-addb-17e3be3f0fc0/G118.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Colonel Napoleon Zervas (centre), commander of EDES, concluded a so-called ceasefire agreement with General Lanz, from autumn 1943 to summer 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/ba824915-18cd-46eb-b566-e51a3c49c7af/g186.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Karl Wilhelm Thilo, Ia (Chief of Operations) of the 1st Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht, later became a general in the 1st Mountain Division of the Bundeswehr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/d2ae9ab5-6b42-4acc-ab84-93a6f91055c8/Gandin.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss General Gandin was executed along with 130 other Italian officers on Kefalonia after the cessation of hostilities, September 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/8a0e7a7b-fa5c-414a-9d4f-7384e282111e/Gerichtsplatz.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss The Italian Acqui Division assembled for a parade in Argostoli, Kefalonia, September 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/289b3f5d-9c63-4860-9653-50b43c3f41dd/Lusignani.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Colonel Luigi Lusignani, commander on Corfu, was executed after being taken prisoner, October 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/0aca3aac-b077-478e-9fc3-2e71a27063c1/R46.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss Years after the massacres on Kefalonia, the remains of hundreds of unburied victims were still being found, c. 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/da7d40d5-52c2-482d-a423-2fbbfee6e4b4/RS-Manowski.jpg Bloodstained Edelweiss In cooperation with the XXII Mountain Army Corps, SS First Lieutenants Burger and Manowski ordered the deportation of the Jewish population of Corfu, July 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/75058790-5877-45b1-8652-b5f89bcf2682/be+copy.jpg https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/research-resources daily 0.75 2026-07-27 https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/bloodstained-edelweiss-1 daily 0.75 2026-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/df217ca0-ce20-4ef7-8063-57fc576aab46/7Ab.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Die beiden deutschen Generäle Karl von Le Suire (links) und Hellmuth Felmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/1c89900d-f39a-4d38-9fbd-e7dca9a9c1a3/7Bb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Der ELAS-Kapetanios Dimitrios Michos, ein ehemaliger Offizier der griechischen Luftwaffe, führte die Widerstandsbewegung im Raum Patras-Xylokastron-Tripolis. Sie wurde von britischen Verbindungsoffizieren unterstützt (hier mit ELAS-Andarten posierend), die per Fallschirm aus Nordafrika kommend über der Peloponnes abgesetzt wurden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/7682cbea-2c53-4bea-8537-dbd1d31b41c3/7Cb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Die deutschen Angehörigen der 117. Jäger-Division am 28. Oktober 1943 in Gefangenschaft der Andarten https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/3077f2f5-6691-4597-8408-5bdcf8edce37/7Db.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Die deutsche Abwehr hatte erkannt, daß Michos im Raum Patras-Xylokastron-Tripolis mit etwa 2.500 bis 3.000 Andarten agiert. Der Einsatzbefehl Le Suires ordnete die Zerschlagung dieser Verbände und die Befreiung der Gefangenen an. Als dies mißlang, befahl Le Suire: "Als sofortige Sühnemaßnahme Erschießung der männlichen Bevölkerung und Niederbrennen der Ortschaften" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/3370704b-2a49-4534-8816-7224f4d2abfa/7Eb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Eine Generalstabskarte über das "Unternehmen Kalawrita", das vom 5. bis zum 13. Dezember 1943 geführt wurde. In der Karte sind die Vormarschwege der Division auf Kalavryta eingetragen, einige der zerstörten Ortschaften und die Fundstelle der Leichen der ermordeten deutschen Gefangenen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/a2eea451-e466-439e-bb11-6c76b4416aee/7Fb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Laut dieser Meldung der 117. Jäger-Division vom 31. Dezember 1943 an das Generalkommando des LXVIII. Armee-Korps wurden während des "Unternehmens Kalawrita" 696 Personen erschossen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/75c41bdb-dd39-45ff-97c7-9f44bbd1676b/7Gb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Die Kleinstadt Kalavryta nach der Zerstörung. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/879e2610-4ecc-4ed0-a11b-e7c88edd3f01/7Hb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Trauer in Kalavryta, die "Stadt der Schwarzen Witwen" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/09e089e5-cfee-42e7-a16c-5afae37f51d3/7Ib.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Hans Ehrenstrale fotografierte diese Andarten vor Kalavryta, als er die Kleinstadt im August 1944 besuchte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/78e5d1bc-daa0-4001-bd6e-29f496b00791/7Jb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Während Karl von Le Suire 1954 in sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenschaft starb, wurde Hellmuth Felmy (zweiter von rechts) in Nürnberg zu 15 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt. 1951 kam er jedoch im Zuge eines Amnestieverfahrens wieder frei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/e8a15921-3236-4aed-88ae-ced41762bbf2/7Kb.jpg From Vienna to Kalavryta Ehrengard von Schramm ermöglichte 30 Waisenjungen aus Kalavryta eine Ausbildung in Deutschland. Das Foto zeigt sie mit den Jugendlichen bei einem Empfang bei Bundespräsident Theodor Heuß. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/b97829ae-b9bb-4c0c-92fc-a0fd24af26f3/71Vcx0yevNL._AC_UF894%2C1000_QL80_.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/5ffdbcee-ca59-4e72-9230-28f94fddd1b1/Apo-ti+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/ea80a0cf-c712-4f8b-b98c-1da5d61aeb02/Screenshot+2026-07-27+at+11.16.07.png https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/legal-notice daily 0.75 2026-07-27 https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/bloodstained-edelweiss-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/76a29fc9-9922-48fb-82bb-d8fe30eaac21/5Ab.gif Kommeno The Greek province of Epirus after the withdrawal of the German troops: Dozens of villages, particularly along the main routes from Igoumenitsa and from Ioannina to Arta and Preveza, had been partially or completely destroyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/95fe8300-fc9c-4eb4-818b-db56e27e5304/5Bb.jpg Kommeno A so-called "mopping-up operation" carried out by mountain troops in Epirus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/bdd8a6d7-da02-412a-9da2-58480847046d/5Cb.jpg Kommeno A so-called "mopping-up operation" carried out by mountain troops in Epirus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/d2d006fe-fed3-40f6-a4f7-55e399458380/5Db.jpg Kommeno A so-called "mopping-up operation" carried out by mountain troops in Epirus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/cc0840d4-cc97-4cf3-8d4c-7084c8c19de8/5Eb.jpg Kommeno A so-called "mopping-up operation" carried out by mountain troops in Epirus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/62cd32cb-bc80-4762-9fb6-a9670bbf15a8/5Fb.jpg Kommeno A so-called "mopping-up operation" carried out by mountain troops in Epirus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/3939b7b5-3c72-487e-959f-9efce7309823/5Gb.jpg Kommeno A so-called "mopping-up operation" carried out by mountain troops in Epirus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/0e1b6902-492c-498e-ac3e-12445d1a9680/5Hb.jpg Kommeno A memorial bearing the names of all 317 victims was erected in Kommeno after the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/c39c1a6b-a05e-4908-8b12-9e72b94e045a/9Ab.jpg Kommeno General of the Mountain Troops Hubert Lanz (left) and Regimental Commander Josef Salminger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/3e9be73b-4293-4593-9b32-a520d4546735/9Bb.jpg Kommeno Major Reinhold Klebe, the officer in command of the operation, was never held accountable for the Kommeno massacre. After the war, he continued his military career in the Bundeswehr. On the right is the Mallios family, who celebrated the wedding of their daughter Alexandra (second from the upper left) on the evening before the massacre. With the exception of Maria (third from the lower right) and Alexandros (second from the lower right), all were either shot or burned alive in the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/7d6833c4-437d-45ba-b3d0-fecf0d3107f8/9Cb.gif Kommeno That evening, the troops reported to divisional headquarters: "Captured: approximately 150 civilians." The officer responsible there, Karl Wilhelm Thilo (who became a lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr in the 1950s), reported the following day to the "German General Staff at the Italian 11th Army" in Athens: "150 bandits killed." In doing so, he portrayed the criminal act as a legitimate military operation. In Athens, the officer responsible for the war diary, First Lieutenant Kurt Waldheim (later Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of Austria), completely altered the report. He wrote: "In the area of the 1st Mountain Division, the village of Kommeno was taken against strong enemy resistance. Enemy casualties." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/f5c725c4-2b7a-4190-ba1d-c8fc9964b728/9Db.jpg Kommeno The foundations of the destroyed buildings of Lyngiades in the foreground. In the background, the city of Ioannina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/16939993-bf74-4853-b5bf-71c92334aa5c/Kommeno+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/e6aef502-67c3-4593-921a-5c94d816ba64/I-Friki.jpg https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/bloodstained-edelweiss-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/5cc2ca61-98de-4986-8ebf-55791d828769/3Ab.gif Missing in Greece The Blown-Up Gorgopotamos Railway Bridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/bcd2b07b-e3ed-43ae-a1ab-2b7576435a6e/3Bb.gif Missing in Greece The area south of Lamia with the three railway viaducts on the Thessaloniki–Athens railway line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/7d8c4927-a80d-44d8-9c11-5aad588134e3/3Cb.jpg Missing in Greece This photograph illustrates the strategic importance of the railway line between Thessaloniki and Athens for the German occupation forces. The line was considered of "vital importance", as Greece's poorly developed road network was largely unsuitable for the transport of heavy military supplies by truck. During the invasion and occupation of Greece, and throughout the following years, German troop movements and, above all, the transport of supplies relied almost entirely on the railway network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/630b7ab8-7304-435f-9f21-86836b69c1be/3Db.jpg Missing in Greece ELAS captain Aris Velouchiotis (left) and EDES commander Napoleon Zervas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/188bcd0e-2572-4ff2-b163-b33d6490cf83/3Eb.gif Missing in Greece Greek resistance fighters (andartes). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/c73e1b4a-6f59-4991-b48f-8b216d070710/3Fb.gif Missing in Greece The "Harling" team after the successful demolition of the Gorgopotamos Viaduct. Back row, fourth from the right: Eddie Myers, later promoted to Brigadier and appointed head of the British Military Mission (BMM) to the Greek resistance. Standing beside him is his deputy and successor, Colonel C. W. (Chris) Woodhouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/fd4bfce2-9104-46fb-886f-15090b06aa8f/3Gb.gif Missing in Greece One day before their execution, the author's father wrote a letter to the German commander in Lamia requesting a prisoner exchange. It was signed by all the German prisoners. A week later, the letter was found lying outside the entrance to the German headquarters. Based on this document, the author was able, during the 1980s, to trace the families of 27 of the prisoners and inform them of the fate of their relatives. Until then, all had been officially listed as missing by both the Wehrmacht and the German Red Cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/cee90480-e067-48d4-b90a-b35dd7735f28/3Hb.jpg Missing in Greece As a result of the author's research, the remains of the executed prisoners were discovered at Kolokythia. In 1992, he erected a memorial at the site. Later that same year, Chris Woodhouse visited the memorial and sent the author this photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/4a53724d-bfa4-4587-8ba0-6bb2a33b5926/Vermisst+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/7f9a1a4c-b24c-41f5-b88b-720ab3b7d558/Missing+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/b257ec07-6371-40e6-959f-04fca21d8371/Anazitisi-2+copy.jpg https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/bloodstained-edelweiss-1-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/2ee47707-d761-41b0-879c-7ebe4ed6f76b/4Ab.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny The three-hinged arch bridge over the Asopos mountain stream before its demolition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/65232106-41b5-4060-b829-14977dcfb531/4Bb.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny ELAS resistance fighter Spyros Bekios, whose nom de guerre was "Lambros", placed the explosive charges inside the Kournovo Tunnel. More than 200 Italian and German military personnel were killed in the attack. In reprisal, Italian troops executed 118 Greek hostages in front of the tunnel entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/075e884b-faf1-4910-bd34-6eb39bbbd374/4Cb.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny More than 1,000 highly specialised German military engineers rebuilt the Asopos Bridge. When the German forces withdrew from Greece in October 1944, they blew it up once again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/daffbab0-ef68-4e12-8bd0-9f1a8d6b2062/4Db.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny At the invitation of the Association of the Friends of the Greek Railways, the author (right) visited the Asopos Bridge in May 2001 with Ken Scott (centre), who had blown it up, and Adolf Brennecke, who had rebuilt it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/5a40e306-722b-4184-91f2-48fdf1eaf61d/8Ab.gif Bridges, too, have a destiny The operational area with the Gorgopotamos and Asopos railway bridges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/982e492b-b389-4bc4-a4f5-f54cd10708dd/8Bb.gif Bridges, too, have a destiny Drawing from Faith's (Geoffrey Gordon-Creed's) "Washing Log", 25 June 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/b5877e29-35dc-4b45-9a88-9e531925e159/8Cb.gif Bridges, too, have a destiny This sketch was prepared by Ken Scott ("Kilt") as part of his report to E. C. W. Myers ("Eddie") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/e0b7b15f-4931-4494-b0e6-bb8d520480bd/8Db.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny The New Zealander Don Stott ("Weasel") led the daring assault on the Asopos bridge. Its destruction made Hitler believe that the invasion of Greece was imminent. As a consequence he ordered additional 70,000 German troops to be moved to Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/7ec6f09b-3c9b-4273-b00b-4672f21f2ddb/8Eb.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny The bridge under reconstruction in July 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/1425c63e-b10f-48f5-b866-c3eecd86eded/8Gb.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny The bridge during reconstruction, shortly before it collapsed again because of failing rams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/7e47f8b4-efc4-497d-bfa4-9f839de960f2/8Hb.gif Bridges, too, have a destiny A German soldier 80 meters above the Asopos-river, without harness, but with the so-called Hitler-Nazi-salute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/3a178bef-70ff-4293-9c59-24f96e64ae59/8Ib.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny The new RW bridge and the RW piers; wreckage of the collapsed bridge sections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/c37ad174-0582-4a58-bf79-7298aff77fcb/8Jb.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny Reopening ceremony of the bridge on 27 August 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/aabe64fc-dc47-4722-b44a-c5035999d009/8Kb.jpg Bridges, too, have a destiny The rising pier on 6 March 1944. https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/bloodstained-edelweiss-1-1-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/83c54b8d-f5c9-4587-a816-0e8ba5e2a5f3/6Ab.jpg Memories of Hans Wende Hans Wende, the "Officer for Anti-Partisan Affairs at the Headquarters of Army Group E." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/f5c245d1-636c-4ccf-9d48-fe0cdb3f6689/6Bb.jpg Memories of Hans Wende Colonel General Alexander Löhr, Commander of Army Group E in Thessaloniki, Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/abf88f9a-38a2-4691-8117-59d7af4f9ee9/6Cb.jpg Memories of Hans Wende Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of Austria, served from October 1943 as Hans Wende's immediate superior at the headquarters of Army Group E in Greece. https://coyote-dodecahedron-gbk2.squarespace.com/bloodstained-edelweiss-1-1-1-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a65f41d5d842d04cd66d0ed/c3f56975-40de-4e8e-8784-33f1feef5add/images-3+copy.jpg