What the records say
- When
- Oct 1943
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 36.79° N, 27.07° E
- Description
- World War II war crime
Massacre of Kos
World War II war crime
The Massacre of Kos was a war crime perpetrated in early October 1943 by the Wehrmacht against Italian army POWs on the Dodecanese island of Kos, then under Italian occupation. About a hundred Italian officers were shot on the commands of General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, after being considered traitors for resisting the German invasion of the island.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “расстрел на острове Кос”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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