The Viannos massacre, known as the “Viannos Holocaust,” was a mass extermination campaign launched by Nazi forces against the civilian residents of around 20 villages located in the areas of east Viannos and west Ierapetra provinces on the Greek island of Crete during World War II.
The massacres took place between September 14-16, 1943. In total, more than 500 civilians were executed, and nearly twenty villages were pillaged, looted and burned to the ground.
Every bit of the grain and other agricultural crops growing in the fields, as well as the harvest which had already been brought in for the year, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht soldiers.
Míkis Theodorakis et la musique populaire grecque (Video in French)
Documentary from Belgian television from 1963. Report on Greek popular music with the composer Míkis Theodorakis. Music from the mountains, islands, Byzantine music, popular music from cities, more recent… A brief overview of genres with many Greek musicians. Dora Stratou and her folk group tell us about the music that accompanies the balos, a popular dance from the islands. Markos Tsitsanis, Manos Hadjidakis, Zaïtsa Kouroukli, Bithikotsis, Kazandzidis and Marinella, perform some typical songs. Míkis Theodorakis explains the reasons for his transition from classical to popular music.
Map of the massacre of the Herero and Nama people perpetrated on the orders of the general Lothar von Trotha in German South West Africa (present-day Namibia) from 1904, considered the first genocide of the twentieth century.
