Lyngiades massacre

When

3 Oct 1943

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

83

Coordinates

39.69° N, 20.89° E

Description

nazi killing of Greek civilians

1943 mass killing of Greek civilians by occupying Nazi forces during WWII

The Lingiades massacre, on 3 October 1943, was a Nazi German war crime committed by members of the 1st Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht Heer during the Axis occupation of Greece. The village of Lingiades, near Ioannina in northwestern Greece, was arbitrarily chosen as a target for reprisals by the Wehrmacht due to the killing of a German officer by members of the Greek Resistance.

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